A Thought: On the Risk of Death

In the growing cultural obsession with postponing our inevitable demise, it's becoming more and more common to see the phrase, "if you do/don't do this or that, you're increasing your risk of death."

I find it funny, every time. To use the word risk implies that, somehow, if we follow the proper rituals or cultivate the proper diet or what have you, we can manage to avoid dying.


It's a waste of time focusing on how long until we die when it could be better spent reveling in how long we have left to live. Read more!

A Thought: On What We May Sacrifice

Someday, I hope we come to realize that the only thing we have a right to sacrifice, for any cause, is ourselves. Read more!

A Question to Those Who Would Fight Tyranny

While I do not in any way advocate violence, because it serves little lasting purpose, I do ask those who keep claiming that Americans need guns to stand up to those who would take away our rights any time someone even mentions tightening gun control, what rights, other than that to bear arms, are you talking about?

Our education system is crumbling, with children being packed like sardines into classrooms falling apart to be taught only the basic facts necessary to pass standardized tests created by companies with no educational background, thus causing us to slide further and further behind countries whose citizens understand that education, more than anything else, is the way to drive an economy.

Millions of Americans fall victim to profit-based privatized health care system, driven by pharmaceutical and insurance industries, causing us to have health numbers and mortality rates rivaling those of third world nations.

Banks and big businesses receive massive subsidies while small businesses are crushed under laws bought from career Congressmen by said large ones to ensure their oligopolies are maintained as they squeeze the life from their workers, one paycheck at a time, cutting jobs while posting profits.

State governments loot their coffers and destroy their states, one backdoor deal at a time, all the while erecting, along with Congressmen who can hold their jobs for life, a masterful smokescreen that makes the average person think it's all the fault of the evil president, who actually has as much power domestically as any one of them.

So, again, I ask, when, exactly, are you going to start standing up for those rights that you need your guns to protect?

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A Thought: On the Value of Losing Everything

It isn't until we've lost everything that we can truly understand the value of anything. Read more!

A Thought: On a Too Dark World

Sometimes the world only seems so dark because we've forgotten to open our eyes to the light that surrounds us. Read more!

A Thought: On the Struggle for Balance

Balance can never be achieved through struggle, only acceptance. Read more!

We Can Stop It

   The Scottish government has recently begun a large campaign to address the issue of rape education in their country, following the passage of much clearer, stricter laws regarding its commission.  The campaign seems targeted towards not just aggravated rape, but coercive and date rape, as well. 

I appreciate that it includes same-sex relationships in the campaign, as it has always been a very real issue that's been shied away from in the past.

Check it out here: We Can Stop It. Read more!

A Thought: On the Misuse of Physical Escalation

It's disturbing that physical escalation has gone, in less than a decade, from a term used when documenting a violent crime to one used when talking about how to flirt, in a positive sense.

If you think physical escalation is something you should use to pick up women, look up the term coercive rape.  Yep, that's you, you douche. Read more!

A Thought: On a Closed Door

There is something inherently unsettling in finding a closed door in your home, one which is normally left open, where you aren't expecting one to be so, especially when alone in the house.  Read more!

A Thought: On Playing Chess with a Bhuddist

A wise and accomplished Buddhist will always lose at chess, but will never mind. Read more!

A Thought: On Grammar and Idiocy

For some reason, it always bothers me more when I read ignorant, bigoted or closed-minded statements that are well-written and grammatically correct.  Read more!

The Lingering of Ghosts...

The drawback to being the sort of person who realizes the finite nature of life and seeks to squeeze from every moment the most possible is that those ghosts linger for us just that little bit longer. Read more!

Very Important! All Cell Phone Users!

Guys, I heard that whenever your cell phone is on, it's basically like carrying a camera and microphone everywhere you go!  Plus, there's a GPS in there.  People can, like, find, listen to and watch you everywhere and you CAN'T TURN IT OFF!  They say it's just so you can get phone calls and texts and post pictures of food and random stuff.  But that's what they WOULD say.  I say down with cell phones!  Screw you, Big Brother!

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Xbox Users...

What, exactly, do you think you do that makes you important enough for MS to want to watch you 24 hours a day?  Really.  Think about it. 

And that thing you're talking about, with the camera and mic being on all the time?  Yeah, your phone already does that.  Why not do the world a favor and chuck that, while you're at it. Read more!

The Polite Dishonesty of Everyday Conversation

"There was nothing horrible, nothing grand or shocking, just the tiny untruths slipped thoughtlessly into the world each time someone asks how one's day is going or how one feels, the polite dishonesty of everyday conversation." Read more!