Category: Nobody Asked, But

After a consensus that the world was topsy-turvy, the most vocal segment claimed that parents were to blame.  The implication was that earlier generations of parents were better.

A horrendous TV news link appeared in today’s Facebook news feed, “Iowa school district promises to end seclusion rooms use.”  I read the term, “seclusion” as  “solitary confinement,” and I flash back to scenes from “Cool Hand Luke.”

If you were a Christian, this question should be like “have you said your bedtime prayer?”  But if your principles come more from Voluntaryism, you will know and respond to Lysander Spooner.  If you don’t know Lysander Spooner there’s no time like the present.

Isn’t the calling of one politician a “semi-fascist,” coming from the mouth of another politician, an ultimate hypocrisy?

We seem never to learn.  We have no recognition of destructive behaviors in our species.  We don’t know the difference between right and wrong.

We cannot avoid the inevitability of Nature by passing a pitiful fiction in a legislature, which is itself a fiction.  We cannot supplant Nature by toying with language in the courts, which are themselves fictions.

I have watched all of the seasons of Ozark on Netflix.  I have binged.  I must admit that I am direly disappointed in the human kind, whether it provides a realistic base for the atrocities of Ozark, or the likelihood of its fictions. 

I know that Dalton Trumbo was alleged to be a member of some chapter of the communist gang. I know that Dalton Trumbo was purported to be on Hollywood’s black list.

While using time (ain’t gonna study killing no more), I happened on this list, Books with anti-war themes from Wikipedia. 

Fall in love with life. Fall in love with the moments. Fall in love with infinity. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Pay no attention to the curtain.