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[Headline, Huffington Post] If an ice shelf the size of Texas breaks off the continent in Antarctica and floats away to melt in the sea, it will not directly affect my day, at least until the sea level rises high enough to flood my neighborhood. That sort of global-warming consequence doesn’t trouble me. If all the [...]

New Trend in Suicides

“Zanesville, OH – Eccentric resident releases 57 wild animals, kills self.” For years we’ve had to put up with deranged men storming into businesses and schools, shooting up the joint, and then blowing their own brains out. Now at last a healthier trend is emerging. Some recent examples: – John Smith, prominent Kansas farmer, sells [...]

The Future of the United States

To simplify, Democrats trust Government to save us from Big Business. Republicans trust Big Business to save us from Government. In the future, everyone will work for Big Business or Government, or be old, poor, or recently graduated. The old, poor, and recently graduated will spend a lot of time at home on their computers. [...]

Are you Walking in Balance on Mother Earth?

My Wife was Bedevilling me this morning and in a moment of self-reflection, I asked myself whether I, too, was Bedevilling others in my Life more than I was Beangelling them, as I like to put it. The consequences of a world where Bedevilling outweighs Beangelling are sobering to contemplate, namely, that Earth in its [...]

Call me Ishmael

A while back, I posted some thoughts under the title “No subject is terrible if the story is true and if the prose is clean and honest.” Every day someone visits that post, no doubt looking for information about Hemingway, of which they find none.  Just for fun, I thought I’d try another famous sentence, [...]