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Some days I feel like the greyhound that caught the artificial rabbit. Or should that be the cheetah that caught the mechanical bull? Last week I had one of those days and nobody noticed, which allowed me to slink back into the doghouse where I usually find myself in relation to the vast majority ofContinue reading “Will Bark for Byte of Spectacled Spaniels, Dawg: Film at Eleven”

It stands to reason that there may be in human brain chemistry, outside what is in our minds and in our identified social psychology, cycles of behavior for individuals (if we can even at a certain point persist with an absolute concept of discrete, entirely separate members of our species) and for social groups, includingContinue reading “Cycles in Human Historical Behavior Based on Neurology and Brain Chemistry”

Kevin M. Kruse, PhD and the Princetonian Daily Rag I dislike certain journalistic styles. If it’s too hip and filled with vitriol, open ridicule and vulgar cuss words, it is more offensive than casual exchanges with the same tidbits. If it represents itself as “reporting,” it had best mind its P’s and Q’s. On theContinue reading “Before It Gets Away…Just Slip It Under the Door”

The purpose of a room is what we call it. That is in and of itself an intention. The name of the room is intended use. But our intentions also change what the room is and means to us in context of events. Thus, when we are missing something, the living room becomes the sceneContinue reading “Necessity Can Be a Bitch but It Don’t Know Nothin’ ‘Bout Birthin’ No Inventions”

Thinking about the protests in Iran, I am reminded of what my grandfather told me about the contradictions people with prejudices have in their ideas which comes out in how they express themselves. In Iran the “morality police” enforce the strict but ambiguous rules on how women must cover themselves in public. The ambiguities haveContinue reading “Enforcement Reveals the Intention of the Rule”

Man in mismatched suit jacket and dress slacks,Both second-hand, still wears dress shirt and tie;The little girl affectionately lacksDoubts in her hugging as to reasons whyAnd, seeing only daddy, tie and suit,Loves him, though he is worn out, face hirsute.What I determined in less than a glanceDoes not occur to her in precious time.And maybeContinue reading “Un Quidam”

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was an original short story, very short, in fact, first published in The New Yorker Magazine in March of 1939. It was next part of Thurber’s book published by Harcourt Brace in 1942, My World and Welcome to It. It was first made into a full-length motion picture releasedContinue reading “Secrets in The Secret Life – the Several Renditions of Walter Mitty”

There is a world where love is real and moreThe fabric of space-time continuumIs love itself and loving feelings soarSurrounded by a love force field in someLoving dimension outside what we knowWhere only true love’s lovers dare to goFast as the speed of love in loving looksEscape velocity beyond attractionNot found in any scientific booksDiscoverContinue reading “Love Physics”

I used to help my father at the storeAnd once back home would carry heavier things,Or so I thought, not seeing all he boreFeeling alone, a lonely weight age brings.During the week he waited for me: IWould wait for him slow walking while we shopped.He missed me I knew when I was not by;I missContinue reading “What’s In Store”