ARIES (March 21-April 19): A networking event will become a learning experience on the 21st and 22nd if you rub shoulders with people who share your sentiments. A passionate interpretation of how you see the future unfold will touch someone significant. Emotions will surface on the 23rd, causing confusion and concern regarding how to move forward. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): … [Read more...]
Is this you? Exploring vs. trespassing
That “Free Will” thingy that we all have within us is really something. I like my free will. It let’s me choose to have the salad or the ice cream. It makes it possible to choose to watch the documentary on the life of a gnat or the movie Air Force One just in anticipation of saying along with Harrison Ford, “Get off my plane.” Because there is no doubt we all know people to … [Read more...]
Can we (should we) fix James Bond?
I resent people fooling around with the literary classics of my youth. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn has been under fire for years. Twain used the “N-word.” Some want to change it to “slave,” to fit the modern ear. More recently, the publishers of Agatha Christie’s work plan to scrub her novels of words like “Oriental,” “Gypsy” and Native” in future printings. And now the … [Read more...]
Elon Musk, President of the United States
President Biden is supposed to be the most powerful man in the world because he controls the most formidable military. Alas, that mantle has now passed onto Athe egocentric shoulders of Nevada’s champion corporate welfare queen, Elon Musk. Last year, the richest man on the globe scuttled Ukrainian drones attacking the Russian fleet because he didn’t want to piss off his pal … [Read more...]
Is this you? Potato, Po-tot-toe
Yes of course I know potottoe is not a word that my computer understands. I tried po-tot-toe to see if that worked. Nope. So, I tried tomato, to-mot-toe. Nope. All I ask is that you indulge me. How in the world is a writer supposed write potato, potottoe, like the song goes, to start this story off. There have been some amazing sunsets in my neck of the woods this summer. I … [Read more...]
Authoritarian expediency sign of bad leadership
Remember when it was all the rage to suspend constitutional rights at the drop of a perceived “health” emergency? I thought we learned that lesson already after disgraced Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak lost his job when he tried to close churches over fears it might spread COVID-19. The Nevada Supreme Court ended that nonsense, pointing out the governor can’t close places of … [Read more...]
Death by a thousand cuts
Whatever might the Orient Express, trolley cars and the new phone book have in common? All such were intentionally neglected into the ground by their corporate overlords. America’s rapacious railroads weren’t making enough money on their passenger lines, so they intentionally made the service so bad that people stopped using it. Thus advised my Uncle John who was once the … [Read more...]
Is this you? If we were snails
Into each life some rain must fall. Well unless you live life on Mars. I have heard there is no water on Mars. Making the availability of evaporation and condensation out of the question. Of course without that rain and the clouds, we would miss the promise of clouds with silver linings. I know. I know. I am the forever optimist. We all have the expectation of privacy. If we … [Read more...]