Haven’t felt much like blogging lately. Frankly, so much has happened to aggravate my feelings of being “a stranger in a strange land” that I’ve simply had no faith that I could express myself in words anyone would understand. Which, I guess, is why my mind has been speaking to me in song again…
The following video is from today’s CBS News Sunday Morning, and I just had to post about it…
This great George Carlin video posted on Facebook… Amazingly, it was posted in support of this… An association that, to me at least, makes one hell of a lot of sense!
I’ve mentioned before how I’ve been allowing my youngest son living with me. You know, the one who asked if he could move in with me because it was closer to the college that he now no longer attends? The one who promised that his presence here wouldn’t be a burden to me, and said that having someone to look out for me would, in fact, be a good thing? Yeah, that’s the one!
It’s past midnight as I write this, so I know it’s a day late. But, after thinking about it all day, I STILL think reprinting this from the most recent Galt’s Gulch newsletter is worth doing…
I’ve been feeling a little hopeless and uninspired lately, as I struggle through one of the downturns of my own emotional roller-coaster. But the following video, posted a couple of days ago by my good friend Alex Autin, is not only a reminder of what I think of as “the highest of the high points” of my life, but a reminder of the source my malaise as well…
… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of…
Yes, how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky ? Yes, how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry ? Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died ? The answer my friend is blowin’ in…
“Albert Pine said, ‘What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.’” – Agent Jason Gideon That quote is from the end of the “Riding the Lightning” episode of Criminal Minds – one of the most intensely thought provoking episodes from the show’s very…
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet – Act 1, Scene 5 I couldn’t begin to count the number of times that quote, or some variation of it, has been used to cast doubt on an assertion I’ve made based on reason and logic. But…
I Want Ice Water! 