Random Brain Droppings

  Got to admit, I'm dealing with a pretty big wave of disillusionment with the nature and behavior of the United States. No, this state...

  Way back in the early 1980's I remember watching Carl Sagan giving a hypothetical lecture on the nature of other intelligent species. ...

  We are so doomed!!!!        In all the annals of stupid that I have been exposed it was this week that I saw something so strange that it ...

  Few things signify the gross excess and outright waste of our current society like the modern suburban home. There are entire industries c...

  Usually I have a strong opinion whenever the subject deals with the military or politics. Combine the two and if someone asks me a questi...

  Shock and near panic rippled through my section of Lexington County recently with the news of a Section Eight housing project being built ...

 For me anything that falls under the umbrella of “popular culture” is something I usually try and ignore. Whatever popular culture once was...

 For reasons that usually escape me I'm a fan of most of H.P. Lovecraft's stories. Cosmic horror filled with powerful entities total...

  Late Saturday and early Sunday are the best times for me to write. That is until we have a bit of an emergency here at the house like we ...

  Here's the situation, you are on a nature trail walking next a trolley track minding you own business. Out of what seems nowhere, you...

   Recently stumbled across an obscure website that offered up philosophical questions for people to write about. A lot of the questions, wh...

     The absolute last thing I wanted to do was write another political post. It was my hope that with January 20 th drawing near the crisi...

  Back in January of 2020, there were a lot of people posting stuff on the internet about how that year would be the start of a new decade ...

   Since the beginning of the Trump era far too many people have been struggling to reconcile the hateful nature of MAGA supporters with the...

  How do you explain the existence of something like Donald Trump? I admit that I am bias but to the best of my knowledge he has no redeemab...

  Okay, yesterday was a great day! Pennsylvania finally turned blue, sending Biden over 270 electoral votes needed and mostly ending the nig...

    Yeah, I'm going to clearly spell it out for any smirking, low-brow, semi-literate, misinformed right-winger who might still occasion...