Videos are mostly shadows on the wall of Plato’s Cave. Yet humans persist in treating them as first hand perceptions in the full sunlight.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #79 — Waste
It seems that POTUS and his minions believe that if the foursome contains a critical number of peeps with presidential business, then it must be appropriate. I wonder if Arnold Schwartzenegger was canned on the back nine.
Just War
Nobody asked but … It takes more than one side to make a just war. But is it possible for two warring sides both to have just causes? Can both sides be on the footing of self-defense? I have been on a War & Peace binge lately. But no matter the legitimacy of Russia’s defense,…
Little Kings
POTUS is an impossible job, designed as it is as a little king, after the clown parade in our putative mother country, England. Our POTUS acts out as if he is the crowned head in his court. Is he mad King George III or Henry VIII?
This Is Good
There are wide spaces, vast expanses, long durations, deep wells of good in our lives. Today, my granddaughter played in a church league basketball game. It was a beautiful day.
Non Sequitur — A Tanka
Non sequitur, does.. Not follow, does not lead, it’s.. Not reality. The Bowling Green Massacre… Was e’er last night in Sweden.
Patchwork
If actions are not based on the NAP, peace, non-authoritarian, non-nationalist, anti-protectionist principles, indeed, they are just a patchwork of greedy impulses, non-libertarian to an extreme.
Words Poorly Used #77.1 — Impeachment
Isn’t “(legal) impeachment” a redundancy? Aren’t “hinder” and “impede” obvious? Oh, oh, oh! Maladministration??? Never!!!
Words Poorly Used #76 — Communication
As we try to communicate, we frequently learn that communication is difficult. Today, Kilgorette and I had the following push-me-pull-you.
Doppelganger
It seems that Jefferson was still romantically attached to liberty; but his eyes and his dreams were on the arising French Revolution. He must have assumed he had left the American experiment in good hands. This is the nature of idea men — they are great at founding dreams, but they are terrible at (if not entirely absent during) implementation.