As someone who believes that blanket trigger warnings, coddling, and misinformation are hurting us as a species, and as someone who is anti-tribalist, I am going to gamble here on you reading this through, and maybe asking me questions if I am unclear. It is only out of sincere feelings of respect that I choose … More On religion, social media, and self censorship
I just discovered that there is a person who thinks I was lying about making my own furniture because I was ignorant about wood glues. JESU IMMANUEL! Cultures have been making furniture without glues for literal millennium, but I am a liar because I don’t use/know glues. I am allergic to most chemical glues and … More Science!
TL;DR – pity sucks and hurts everyone involved. Shorter read? You can skip my personal manifesto at the top and get to stuff that might help you by starting where it says, “That said, let me get a bit more academic here for others having the same problem as myself.” * * * * * … More On Pity and Why You Should Be Done With It.
Today, despite the hottish weather, I went outside and did some routine lawn and garden work. Since the day was quite warm, I doused my straw gardening hat in cold water, put on a sleeveless tee, and took one of the frozen bottles of water I keep in my fridge or the purpose, and rounded … More Pastoral mode
Stonewall was a riot. Blue balls and blue jeans, short skirts, drag queens dragged through a blue line, batons against bisexuals, there was no glitter or colored flags just “colored fags” and men in blue denim making fists instead of holding hands. Transpeople being transported through spilt beer bottles and rainbows of piss and broken … More Stonewall was a riot! (poem)
So let’s talk about ethics here for a bit, okay? Well, ethics and morals. They are different despite the usage of both words as synonyms here in the US. Here is how I define the words for clarity. Ethics are the official rules, more or less, and morals, the unofficial ones more or less. And … More Do or do not? Sometimes trying is best.
Things I learned by being social media free for 40 days (!). TL;DR – it’s true. People do not talk (vocalize/verbalize) anymore. Also smartphones are increasingly necessary just to get through the day. First, let me define social media. During this period, I used Lent’s forty days, I did not use: Facebook Instagram Twitter Quora … More I gave up social media for 40 days. Here is what I learned.
Let’s talk Thanksgiving. I have been grousing all week because a global pandemic, food allergies, and so on were messing up my holidays; cussing about how I hated hanging out with my family because everyone would complain about the food, each other, and basically everything else. Today a couple of kids and their mom (Non-English … More Thanksgiving
If they have a private room – NEVER go in it. Screw privacy; it’s just that you really don’t want to know. Not even if there is a funny smell. Wash your hands often. Do not pick up the wet wash clothes with your bare hands. A damp towel put back on the tile piles … More Things You Learn Living with Adult-sized Children (USA ed.)
Further book research. An intriguing phrase in a book by Thomas Beddoes sent me off down a literary rabbit hole. And among other places this phrase shows up as early in literature as the Epic of Gilgamesh. “To give King Death ass’s ears.” It means to make light of darkness, even Death. It means to … More Book Research: King Death has Ass’s Ears.
EVOLVING MALE 