Monthly Archives: July 2023

TV news headline:“Wildfire smoke can worsen asthma.” What was and used to be common sense knowledge is now being reported as brand new information.

being unable to distinguish between truth and lies, and choosing in many cases to believe absolute crap, media sites–like tv networks–have allowed advertising to take over to the point one often can’t find the news amidst the ads. A good … Continue reading →

Sting’s “Message in a Bottle” morphs to another level!

“Everything that you think is solid is actually fleeting and ephemeral.” Heck, is she just finding that out now? I remember listening to The Byrds back in 1969 (54 years ago) as they quite accurately sang back then: “Change is … Continue reading →

Anne Frank 15Tutankhaman 19                                                                          … Continue reading →

In our wonderful brave new world in which high-school students learn about financial planning, political correctness, and the environment, and university courses have become politicized and no longer highlight the major names of Western civilization, I wonder how many of … Continue reading →

(background: I co-edited 6 collections of short stories with supporting information about the elements of fiction/short story terminology.) If you stop and think about it, our lives are like stories or novels and contain many of the fictional elements below: … Continue reading →

Uttered by George Santos comparing himself to Rosa Parks.

“There will be time to murder and create.”(“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) A very exact, precise statement on human nature and behavior methinks. Both ends of the human continuum. A very similar powerful statement on a par with … Continue reading →