Joker's Wild

When you think about the United States and the future, what concerns you most? When I think about the future, I can’t help but generalize my own fears into a more ideological perspective. However, my mind then goes down the rabbit hole. On a very basic level, I suspect I fear a painful death more … Continue reading Acceptance and Painful Death →

Fetzer Institute’s Website: Where have you experienced safe and courageous media spaces that support a wide range of ideas and expressions? How do you contribute to an environment that allows for authentic expression? My response, (with minor redactions): I have not found that free expression is politically allowable on social media, often especially among those … Continue reading A Strategy for Free’er Speech on Social Media →

Words are generally meaningless. I've found it much more helpful to ignore what people say and look at behavior. It is only after I've spent significant time evaluating my social environment that I can find any significance in the things people say. Most of it is post modern. It sucks, because language has the capacity … Continue reading Thoughts of a Former Blackout Drunk →

American Bon Bon Staff Sergeant Polnick had the top half of his body sticking out of the Bradley M2A3. It is a 36 ton armored vehicle similar to a tank, but without the speed, firepower, armor and low profile. They were cruising along getting derailed. at the top speed of about 40 miles an hour, … Continue reading American Bon Bon →

I wish I had the capacity to rewrite my paper on torture in college. It was anti-torture and maybe 60 people read it. However, there are a few points I realize weren't correct. 1. Torture can be effective and while perhaps false confessions are a problem, I think even many of those can be worked … Continue reading Preserving Moral Foundations in Warfare →

1. 'Conscious' is not 'consciousness.' 2. "The energy' is not a verb. Energy is a (potential) transfer of motion. It is questionable as to whether it has physical quala. I read a Facebook comment recently that waves and fields as they intersect produce subatomic particles and that shit has me doing some reading. Fields appear … Continue reading The Skeleton in the Closet is Me →

Hi J-, It’s me again here. Sorry that I can’t visit. The hours conflict completely with my work schedule, and I have to be really careful about taking time off. I already take time off a bit for things like my psychiatric and other medical appointments. I was really angry at my mom for a … Continue reading 2nd Letter to a Friend in Jail →

Hey J, I heard you are in jail. That sucks. I am currently working at a place that scraps electronics. I audit the electronics we receive to see where we should send them. Sometimes I make minor repairs to computers and laptops so we can sell the fixed-up junk. It isn’t much different than my … Continue reading Letter to a friend in jail →

The only way to expand health care coverage is to expand the amount of health care employees. To do this, and the following is extraordinarily overly simplified BS; we'll have to stop making college a giant personal gamble for the profits of banks. We'll have to stop a student loan system where the money is … Continue reading Radical Moderates vs Pseudo-Moderates →