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Who Do You Love?

I have a complaint. Who in heck set Valentine’s Day on Ash Wednesday? It’s a fishy affair if you ask me!

However, it prompts me to say remember you are dust and to dust you shall retur– Er…. Okay, but what I mean is: let’s talk about love.

In present day when we mention love, it’s always one sort of love: eros. Or at best, romantic love, the sort of love between married people.

But love has many forms. And to the credit of valentine’s day in schools and childhood, people do have “lo...

The View From this Side

When it comes to being “Latin” Portuguese are the Schrodinger nationality. One of my favorite comments from the left of the field about me was that I couldn’t be Latin, since Portugal was “solidly European.”

Sure, and potatoes are solidly vegetables but they sure ain’t greens. I will grant them that the EU has pasteurized Portugal and turned it into England’s idea of an exotic vacation spot. That’s not even vaguely the Portugal I grew up in, though. Even ten years ago, Europeans were not ...

Shiny! Let’s be Bad! – a blast from the past from January 2018

Shiny! Let’s be Bad! – a blast from the past from January 2018

Most humans want to fit in, and will go a long way to fit in.  In fact, most if not all dictatorships in the 20th century depended on this impulse.  “You don’t want the neighbors to think you’re a bad person” or mutatis mutandi, Jew/Jew sympathizer/wrecker/hoarder/saboteur/running dog of imperialism/etc etc.

No army in the world can hold even a small mutinous fraction of a large population in subjection, if they are not hel...

I see Your Bad Memes Rising

Reading The News in Pravda, Reprise

First of all calm down. No, seriously, calm down.

Before I was aware the walking corpse was giving a speech, my phone went nuts, with people wanting to lay bets on when he’d resign.

We are, of course, in clown world colliding with a dumpster fire while both are carried at the flood, and a UFO is trying to beam the whole mess to Tartarus, so anything is possible. HOWEVER if my experience of reading the news in Pravda means anything? NOTHING will happen.

Nothing will happen. Part of y...

Chaos

One of my minor endearing (Ah!) characteristics is that I’m digit dyslexic. Well, I’m dyslexic, dyslexic, but thanks to a very boring childhood I had to read, starting at 4, and you see words so often, you start reading them straight after a while. Except to be fair, it was spellchecker that finally got me to spell right in English. As you guys know my typos are still otherworldly.

But I transpose numbers. 345 is 543 is 435 is … You try doing complex equations like that. I mean, it’s quit...

The Perfect storm

I was alluding to something yesterday. It wasn’t exactly being black pilled, but it was something that is scaring the living daylights out of me. Not just for the US either, but for the world.

I haven’t been sleeping well. A lot of us haven’t been. I think most of us are sensing this subconsciously.

We are, facing a perfect storm. And it is worldwide. And I can’t see or feel a path through it much less what comes out at the other side.

No, this is not precisely true. I had a — not a...

Problems that don’t Exist

It gives me no pleasure to see Colorado’s devolution from a laissez faire, individualistic state into totalitarian insanity.

Although Colorado is not my birth state, it is the first place that I felt at home, and it was where I lived for over 30 years. In fact, were it not for the fact my body disagrees with altitude I’d probably still be there, despite shenanigans and political insanity, hoping to do at least a little to resurrect the state I loved.

The problem with Colorado’s idea o...

Perfection– Part 3 — Killing Me Softly

There was a second view of improving humanity, and making humanity ready for Utopia, in the last century.

The first one was eugenics, by race or health or whatever characteristic that particular government chose. And those were usually a mix. Sure, Germans picked for “pure Aryans” but that was because they believed pure Aryans were more intelligent, healthier, more altruistic etc. etc. etc. In the same way, the soviets would kill people who didn’t work right with others, weren’t all for t...

A Meme In Hand

And I don’t even know that much about guns….