The discussion last night was spirited. A thought experiment involving observation of one’s hand was proposed. A hand has objective status, a object existing in space along with other objects. Concurrently there is no denying that my hand, with age blemished skin, and a partially healed nick from a sharp edge of a paring…
There is gray mist in the air this morning. Traffic is heavy, as usual. A Metra train pulls into the station and gaggles of commuters will come into view hustling across the road toward the the gleaming open doors. Another day in the outskirts of a big city, Chicago of course. I hear the…
Weary of the shit-storm of our politics: our President raging against the human scum, his opponents, and then shortly thereafter gloating, basking in the glow of the suicide demise of the leader of ISIS. He described in detail the immolation which included the man’s children. In addition, I have engaged in an extended email…
It is Sunday morning. Sunday is a “time-out” day when traditionally we dial back the fever of commerce, that survival game which we all play. Time outs, half times are important as a player, by definition, is the subject of the game, a mind/body point of awareness who agrees to engage in play with…
I want to think of Fall as the season of red and yellow maple trees, orange pumpkins, and children under the supervision of nearby parents, holding an open pillow case at a front door. On Halloween the sack grows heavier by the minute with treats collected from the neighbors. Fall is truly a season…
One cannot be religious in general, one can only believe in some god(s) to the detriment of others, and the failure of all the efforts to unite religions proves that the only way to be religious in general is under the banner of the ‘anonymous religion of atheism’. And effectively only an atheist regime…
Google claims a computing breakthrough The company said today that it had achieved “quantum supremacy,” a milestone that would make current supercomputers look like toys. At a research lab in California, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said…
Why? Any action taken, any at all, — is subject to the bar of reason. One can ask “the why” of anything. Why am I here? Yesterday afternoon why did I find myself at the Honda of Lisle dealership, being introduced by a stranger at the front desk to another stranger who would sell…
Well here you have it. Disaffection with “business as usual,” corrupt, inefficient, representative democracy had reached such a pitch that in the 2016 presidential election we installed an unabashed authoritarian into the White House. This man doubles down on ignorance. He knows nothing about many things that he fancies himself to be supremely knowledgeable…
The sky is overcast, a chill asserts that Fall and Winter inexorably follows the tilt of the earth’s axis. Over a bowl of cheerios I perused the New York Times Weekend Briefing email received in the early hours. Somewhere someone is awake, living, in full awareness of their lot in their one solitary life, …
