Decorating Reason

“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.” ~Isaac Asimov Warpgender cisspecies. Cisgender warpspecies. Latentgender crackpipespecies. Absentgender fungalspecies. Such mindless philosophies. The word cisgender makes sense to me, with its meaning of “you are what you are”, but the alternatives people want …

The Last Word

I’ve heard it said that the best way to get the last word is to apologize. I think that saying you’re sorry is a good thing to do anyway, but doesn’t apology precede forgiveness? Most of the time, a man receives an apology and he replies with, “Apology accepted,” or, “Don’t worry about it.” When …

RastaRobert

It all seemed to turn around after I met Bob Marley. The day was kind of sour, but he said something to me I won’t soon forget. “Will you roll this joint for me?” I couldn’t believe it at first, but then I watched his fingers fumbling with the paper. Bright green stuff peppered the …

True Dreams Never Die

One of my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quotes: “I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that …

The Obsolete Wall

Not so long ago… “In our opinion the German people wish to have one united country. If the Soviet Union had lost the war, the Soviet people themselves would object to a line being drawn through Moscow and the entire country defeated in war. We wouldn’t like to have a line drawn down the Mississippi …