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Big Brother/Yeats’ rough beast in “The Second Coming” is entrenched for good in Washington. (He’s even threatening again to stay in the White House if he is voted out in November!) America has completely failed and succumbed. Canada killed itself … Continue reading →

Same old. Do something one moment and the universe sends it back to you in an uncanny “pay attention to me, to the connection” with the usual attached questions “What does this mean? What are the odds, frankly?” On a … Continue reading →

(First things first sometimes; another cold winter day several years ago for the Bird Man of Mill Woods: takin’ care of business; looking out for Nature has long been a priority even in the coldest conditions; though I am no … Continue reading →

Always been, always will be as long as it’s spelled that way. Another sign of ignorance much like “eck-cetera”. Whenever I hear those mispronounced words, I think “Here’s someone whose schooling and education was incomplete” and if they emphasize the … Continue reading →

(transitory fame vs. significant family connection) ……………………………………………………………………. cannot be trusted. Many good, fine individuals are simply not remembered, appreciated, or revered enough. Welles speaks of France’s forgetting Anatole France and Andre Malraux as well as Americans forgetting F. Scott Fitzgerald … Continue reading →

(The most dangerous unconventional individual is the fearless, self-actualized individual who is not afraid to speak out or speak his mind.) ………………………….. …it’s fear that recurrently and often rules and buggers up our lives, attitudes, and personal choices. To wit, … Continue reading →

After 3 days, some poor missing schmoe is found dead with signs of violence in his vehicle in a busy neighborhood. Think of all the unattentive pedestrians and drivers that passed him by and were so distracted that it took … Continue reading →

after the bogus, rigged impeachment ‘trial’ aided and abetted by the totally corrupt GOPs. Yeats inspires the last word on all of this: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Washington to be re-elected.”

The folk songs that charted on the top 20: (highest chart ratings, other than by the Kingston Trio) “Greenfields”, Brothers Four, #2, May 1960 “Michael”, The Highwaymen, #1, Sept. 1961 “If I Had a Hammer, Peter, Paul and Mary, #12, … Continue reading →

Edm. city council is grasping at dumb-ass straws again with the proposed swimming hole at Hawrelak Park. Another potential failure to go along with all the other harebrained schemes: gondola, funicular, expanded LRT with no rider parking, bridges that crumple, … Continue reading →