We worked together for one year in Japan at the same school. He lived in Hiyoshi, same as the tiny groupuscule from the Fellowship of Friends that I ran into during that year. He taught English, went to Temple University, and lived with a Japanese wife with whom he seemed to have a pretty [...]
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I’m in high school and I’m in speech class. I’m supposed to give my five minute speech on a historical figure today, only, uncharacteristically for me, I have arrived utterly unprepared. My procrastination binge the night before ended in a procrastination overdose straight into a deep, albeit short, night’s sleep.
So I’m up this morning, [...]
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The wise man changes his views when he sees the truth.
Rest in peace, Bill.
Before the tragedy:
And after(from Rant in E-Minor):
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The first time we went to kindergarten, a year young, was a presidential election year. It wasn’t just an election year for the grown-ups, no. See, they just can’t help but find it adorable to provide little children with a tiny-person version of their own, hollow, big-person rituals. So it was that [...]
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I remember it said, by various people, of no more authority or wisdom than I, that people die in threes. Usually, I’ve heard that sort of thing out of the mouth of someone I worked with round about the end of the year after the death of a celebrity of some stripe. And [...]
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Last year, in his memory, I posted audio of a very powerful speech from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s a speech that may have ultimately gotten him killed, in my opinion. And its words still ring true, deserving to be heard and absorbed into the hearts of so many of [...]
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Here’s a footnote from page 223 of the advanced proof of Jeff Warren’s recently released book The Head Trip. To me, it’s one of those huge statements that underscores a lot about the scam that is the legalized drug peddling trade of corporate psychopharmacology. I have, as usual added the emphasis:
“Martin Seligman, former president of [...]
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The Psychopath’s Bible, despite the scary title and the way your nervous system and habitual thoughts may interact with it, remains one of the most illuminating books I’ve read.
Courtesy of one of our readers, alsancax, I got tipped off to the video below. It’s an interview with the controversial doctor Dr. Hyatt conducted by [...]
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It’s basically some pretty useful online resources for those interested in studying the craft–the curious, the wanna-be, the initiate, the skeptic, the cynic and the paranoid alike.
It’s called An Unconventional Masonic Education: More Light in Masonry. (You can find it by clicking this here link or by going to the blogroll on the bottom right [...]
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Go here for part 1 and here for part 2 for the background.
FYI–S 1959 has been quietly making its way through Congress with little mass-stream coverage for awhile now, so this is the time when it’s important to contact the folks that ostensibly represent us to express your discontent about this bill. That is, [...]
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