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A long time ago early humans, or rather, hominids, discovered by smacking rocks together they could make a very useful tool we now call the hand axe (not with a handle as we understand an axe, but a sharp rock held in the hand). We began the journey to our present society with these amazingContinue reading “Calories to Dollars”

I have an interesting metaphor when considering the present political situation: Just as Sam Harris states our sense of self is actually something we manufacture, so to is our sense of country and all the bad that goes along with whatever good we derive from our nationalist identity. It may be the key to anyContinue reading “How do you like them apples?”

I grew up with World War Two veterans in my family and as a boy I learned that Nazis are not to be imitated, glorified, complimented, admired, or spoken in anything but the most derogatory terms. Really. My uncle was at the Battle of the Bulge. No love for Nazis. Zero. So…I don’t like whatContinue reading “Not Acceptable to Boomers”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/world/moon-radiation-astronauts-exposure-scn/index.html For several years I endlessly argued with Muskrats about cosmic radiation, among other things, on the forums found on popular space blogs and news sites. Until, one by one, I was eventually banned from all of them. My message was as unchanging as the amount of radiation and decrease in bone mass experienced byContinue reading “Those Cosmic Ray Rats Again”

I wanted to go back to writing about space and life extension but it seems the closer the election the harder it becomes to control my anxiety and I am driven to keep posting on it. I think I am trying to subconsciously process what is happening and so I cannot let it go. AndContinue reading “Why it is happening”

The most profound and lasting damage Trump has done is to make lying accepted as just another feature of society- and the deadly corrosive effects could destroy America. The most unrecognized and underestimated effect of Trumpism- the death of truth. They are trying to set it up and it looks like they WILL try: TrumpsContinue reading “Free And Fair Election?”

Ironic the side the Russians are supporting happens to be red. I guess I better buy a black hat Because Lives Matter. What scares me is what the states where the Governors are Republicans, 26 of them, will order their respective National Guard units to do if fighting breaks out. The major military bases willContinue reading “Red Mirage Blue Shift Civil War”

Michael is talking pure Anti-Trumpism by speaking the truth. God, I pray for the Green New Deal and an end to this crazy clown circus administration. This explains a good deal of white grievance. This is what fascism looks like- the strongman leader glorifying the police putting down peaceful protests and his cult cheering himContinue reading “For Those Who Root Quietly For Me To Fail”

Chris Hedges from a speech in 2015 before Trump: “The true history of the breakdown of capitalism in the 1930’s is not that a beneficent oligarch by the name of Franklin Roosevelt decided to shower us with gifts. It is that there were powerful radical movements, the progressive party, the communist party, which was white-washedContinue reading “Paraphrasing Chris for my coworkers”