Category Archives: Wisdom

Music Monday – “Everybody chasing something/I don’t know why they’re running/I take my time to the finish line/‘Cause we all end up with nothing”

“Trailer Hitch” – Kristian Bush

Retro Friday Fun Link – “Can’t Tell The Kids About Those Days”

Some more backdated weekend posts just because…

I’ll Just Leave This Here…

 

Owning People Online Is The Left’s Path To Victory

  According to recent polling, a staggeringly small portion of the 22-to-45-year-old demographic watches cable news, and in fact almost 50 percent of young people do not watch traditional TV at all, instead opting to get their content from online streaming services, social media, and the like. I’ve been a big believer in the power of the […]

“If that’s what you support, you’re an asshole. We don’t want you on our team.”

In this clip, comedian and UFC Commentator Joe Rogan goes off on the idiots of the world who use “well, they broke the law, shouldna fucken come over here” as an excuse to attack poverty-stricken, refugee mothers. Rogan is a Libertarian but he says this is an issue beyond political divides. He points out that […]

Secular Sunday – An Atheist Goes To A Funeral…

A few years ago, someone I know lost her younger sibling unexpectedly.  I can’t remember how old he was but maybe mid-20s? In her grief, she approached me and said “You’re an atheist, right?  How do you deal with loss without believing in God?” It was a tough question – not because I didn’t know […]

“Dearest Father…” #SecondCivilWarLetters Wins Twitter on American Independence Day

My Love,Dusk. We're in position overlooking MAGA camp. I see their sentries' red hats in the dim light of their tiki torches and it steels my nerves. At midnight, we strike. May our battlecry, "Happy Holidays," strike fear. Send Kale. – Matthew#secondcivilwarletters — D-Fo (@ThisIsDFo) July 4, 2018   It’s quite clear that the increased […]

Carnival Scam Science

I wish I’d watched this video before we took the kids to a local carnival a couple weeks ago. I’ve always known the games were rigged towards the operator and had a general sense of how they are – mostly by playing with the size and shape of the game pieces – smaller rims, longer […]

George Carlin on Cynicism

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have?  They’re all just words on paper.  They’re arbitrary.  And they can be changed completely […]