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(Pre-school kids need guidance, exploration, freedom, process, and books more than ever before) ……………………….. …that preaches that buying a Volvo is a sure-fire way for becoming an individual in today’s crazy mixed-up world. There are many good things that have … Continue reading →

in 1907’s classic The Secret Agent, with the botched anarchist bomb attempt on Greenwich Observatory, was, ironically, the successful taking out of the equally iconic Twin Towers during 9/11 a century later. Like Orwell, Conrad was one of the two greatest twentieth-century … Continue reading →

and folded, first and foremost, like a cheap lawn chair in its surrender to technology and The Machine. These latter two are, along with tyrannical widespread political correctness, the main limited/limiting agendas that now make up and direct most of … Continue reading →

has been reduced to what T.S. Eliot called “a heap of broken images” in what critics used to call the greatest poem of the twentieth century–“The Waste Land”. Western civilization has peaked already in the new millennium–9/11 was a good indicator … Continue reading →

-One eye done at a time; until 2nd eye done, you don’t get the more balanced 20/20 effect -Best to wait on driving till then so you can see the road in depth -After both eyes done, only reading glasses … Continue reading →

Lenses installed in one eye, post-cataract. Medical technology as World of Wonders. (Saved my macular hole eye last year at this time already.) Today, after the initial eye ‘cover-up’ in OR–three bright white holes in my vision. Distant white clouds in … Continue reading →

and Purveyor of American Obfuscation. Immortalized by the most quotable quote of the dark, destructive Trump era: “Truth isn’t truth.”

My poet-friend Gerald St. Maur’s The Collected Poetry Vol. 1 & 2. A delightful mix of lyric, narrative, and dramatic poems by a present-day English Romantic from his ten previous poetry collections (1983-2015). Highly recommended. Two thumbs way up.

(Orwell meets Volvo) Apparently the only best way you can become or remain an individual in this ever-increasing impersonal world is to buy a Volvo. “Follow No One” is the manufacturer’s easy, profitable solution for addressing this social problem. BTW/ … Continue reading →

I always cringe when I hear a media type or talking head say “Feb-uary”, completely ignoring the letter ‘r’ spelled in the middle of the proper noun.. As much as I cringe when I hear some tv pundit proudly say … Continue reading →