Joker's Wild

Why do people who believe that #alllivesmatter not thus have a problem with crushing the throat of someone who wasn't an immediate threat to the life of anyone? If all fruits are important, why are they protesting people who want others to stop wasting apples? It's a Venn Diagram thing where one circle completely fits in the … Continue reading My Vestigial Instincts →

'It's easier to not empathize with someone you don't identify with.' One thing I took from BLM is how many white people have come to identify with, and empathize with, the black community. This is due to socioeconomic barriers that go beyond race and gender to whether you identify with another individual. I realize more … Continue reading BLM as ‘at least’ a straight white male: A journey into intersectional-relativism and personal compassion →

I've come to appreciate who the Sapir Whorf hypothesis in how it affects subcultures in America. For example, look at our internal dialect as we navigate socially and acquire indirectly a different lexicon to think in. I'm much calmer to some degree lately, because I've realized I'm not stressed. I'm not at risk of dying … Continue reading To My Polyglot Monoamore… →

We as Americans are taught in our school system to glorify war, especially the Revolutionary War. It was largely neighbors killing neighbors over taxation. We, us in Michigan, recently had idiots running around the state capital with assault riffles and effigies of the governor being lynched. They think mistakes made by the governor are worth … Continue reading A Critique of Elementary Schools on America’s Revolution →

"Essential Services" are about risk assessment versus the reward. This is not just a matter of basic survival at this point, and arguably humanity is somewhat dark and has long taken some risks and harm for comfort. Just because you can get recreational substances like Tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea and candy at grocery stores and … Continue reading A New Age of Social Engineering in America →

Johnny has been at the VA for at least a dozen years. Nobody was really keeping track. He was a Navy Seal. Now he wasn’t sure where he was at most of the time. They took away his brain. He busted up the skulls of two nurses. That was the last time he came in … Continue reading Alcoholism and Self Obliteration →

Becky and Ben rode their bikes through the trails at the state park as fast as they could for two miles, but now they were winded. Becky would joke in her middle age to her husband that the bikes were not as fast as they used to be made. She was worried he might leave … Continue reading Chasing the Tailpipe →

“Did the baby come?” Elvis asked his ex-wife. “It never came,” she replied. “It never came.” “Why?” inquired Elvis, a little mortified. “I don’t know. I just don’t know.” This is a daily conversation here in the VA mental ward. Pretty soon Elvis will be doing the ‘Jail House Rocks,’ on the main doors to … Continue reading A Pair of Kings →

What practices, rituals, observances help you open to something greater, to fellow beings, and to how we’re inextricably connected? I like to attend AA meetings. In there, I find my fellow lunatics who won’t judge me. Each meeting is like an asylum for the weirdos and freaks who couldn’t handle their alcohol, and were crazy … Continue reading Suicidal Ideation and Ritual Absurdities →

I once got fired because I was taking antibiotics. The employer gave the reason to my temp agency that I was hostile. I am not a particularly angry person by nature, and most certainly wasn’t hostile. The temp agency looked into it, and replied that the problem was ‘unprofessionalism.’ I didn’t need to go any … Continue reading The Job Gone with the Wind →