I need to clear my mind before I start my taxes today.
- Yesterday was the rare coincidence of the Ides of March and a super perigee of the moon, causing the moon to appear 25% larger. Most of the US didn't witness it because of the cloud overcast of spring storms.
- We were also informed (informed as fact, not as a possibility) by that bastion of scientific inquiry, the Christian Broadcast Network, that there will be "the big one" ( a major earthquake) in California this week. They did not mention where in the 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km
2) it would occur. The last major quake, the Northridge quake, was not predicted nor was it on a fault line that anyone knew about. But I do have my aluminum hat and glow sticks at the ready because Earthquakes are essentially a random occurrence. Who knew about the earthquakes in Indonesian, Haiti, or Japan? Seismologists have been warning us that there is a 20% chance that the "big one" will strike in the next 20 years. Doesn't that mean that there is an 80% chance there won't be???
- Yesterday, I was ratified by a US government agency that I to had become an official senior citizen with the right to ride
the Metro at a reduced price,
emplacement dans les sièges pour des retraités, l'antique, et droit à côté des femmes enceintes and eat at a discount at the local salad bar.
- I will now receive a retirement pittance for a lifetime from a fortune 500 company as I slowly wane into my dotage. I rather wax into my dotage. (I'm told that it starts
on April Fools Day, so I'll see if it actually arrives)
- I have been told that I have a certain
je ne sais pas. My psychiatric team can define it exactly: recalcitrant mixed state rapid cycling bipolar affective disorder, i.e. I'm crazy. I asked there will be a "cure" soon. They laughed and said, "Not in your lifetime!"
- I've found a new online toy that translates
If a woodchuck could chuck wood, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
into utter nonsense in 12 different languages using the correct alphabet for each.
- I came to the epiphany that if you turn off the sound on the TV and take your glasses off its a kaleidoscope of color and movement that enhances your enjoyment of life (it saves a lot of money by not buying recreational mind enhancements)
- My heart's desire has been fulfilled when I was invited to pray with a devotional purpose online by the Christian Broadcast Network
- The news yesterday blared "
The world is taking unusually quick Intervention in Libya". Today it has been softened to "
The US and European Nations have bombed Libya". What that really means is that the US, England, and France, the three self-appointed policemen of the world, have struck Libya. The rest of Europe has not the least bit interest in becoming mired in another draining, protracted engagement such as Afghanistan and Iraq. The Arab world is using the policemen as puppets to do its dirty work clean up their house for them, luring the policemen with oil. Asian, Non-US America, and the rest of the world could care less and the other martinets of the world are tightening their grips lest they be next.
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Collateral Damage is the most obscene phrase in the English language. The military uses it to obscure their wanton massive murder, maiming, and destruction of the property of innocent noncombatants. Just what exactly is an acceptable level of
Collateral Damage? Who determines it? The self-righteous marauders or their victims, blown off the face of the Earth?
- Today's media (Cinema, TV,) has robbed most people of their imagination. It has reduced its presentation to mere visceral voyeurism, blurring the line between cinema and video game: a movie can morph into a video game; a video game morph into a movie. Lost is their ability to imagine the world evoked by such works as
"War of the Worlds" as originally written by H.G. Wells or the brilliant adaption by Orson Welles (no relation) the allows the reader/listener to build his own images of the events. These are only a tiny bit of the enormous amount of imagination evoking literature in the world. What do you imagine Shangri La or Xanadu or Eden look like? (Spell Check wants to spell it as "Oxnard)"? Any image current Cinema or TV gives us pales in comparison to what our imagine can see.
- Along the same lines, what media immediately engages your attention and leads into the depths of the human soul as effectively as the written word or well constructed play. "
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times", "
Call me Ismael", or "
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble"
- Cinema and TV, for the most part, is shallow and superficial. They give short snippets of morality tales, not even as thoughtful as Aesop, or mindless pap with such paragons of intelligence as Seinfeld or Rosanne or Charlie Sheen (I'm sure the Estevez family forced him to change his name!)
- Don't you wish that the gays, celebs, sports stars, smut peddlers, bible thumpers and others who flaunt or debase their sexuality go back into the closet? Their is nothing wrong with it; its just none of my business. I am confident in mine and its none of your business. They must have such a tiny self image, or ego, or exclusive, biased
Weltanschauung. How sad for them.
- New computer "scientists" should be required to choose their fonts looking through the wrong end of a telescope so that they can see how the rest of the world squints to read their nonsense.
- Have you been fargling with your best friend, lover, spouse, or children today.
- This friggin editor sucks the big green ...!!!!
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Spell check regularly fails miserably in argot of any kind, English 101, Foreign Languages 101,The Arts 101, Science 101, and other liberal and scientific subjects , invents it own collection of nonsense words, and has absolutely no sense of context nor sense of humor)
Ce qui, je souci? À tout à l'heure.
“Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight"
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Bright)
