Could we say optimists to go through life with a permanently-amused attitude? Can you do it? The next time someone puts out the politics in the form of their belligerent opinion, could you just chuckle and interrupt their goad with some of your charm? Instead of being sucked down in the vortex of name-calling and …
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Mental illness consumes us all. How are we supposed to understand each other if we’re all treading through miles of schizophrenic scenery? We see things through a smoggy filter, defined mostly by our individual experiences, and refined by our desires. Unless, unless, unless—-you dread to tread—then you just bounce around other people’s realities, none of …
Politics has a strangle-hold on science. You can’t get a straight scientific idea out of some so-called scientists because they fear their peers. They fear being on the wrong side of a political rally, so they spin their scientific hypotheses like a politician spins an apology into a non-apology. When scientists are swayed by public …
Where I come from, we have an annual tradition of burning everything. We call it the Fourth of July, and it’s symbolic of something, or maybe many things, but whatever that symbolism represents is up to debate. Could be death, could be destruction. Could be symbolic of burning money. It could even be symbolic of …
There are so many types of writers. As a writer, you try to persuade others. In every case I can imagine, the writer’s goal is to persuade. A skywriter’s goal is to let everyone know that Harold loves Ingrid. The poet tries to elicit an emotion. The spin doctor tries to confound. The philosopher aims …
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