Time to
Tie Up Some Loose Ends, Yes? Welcome to Cubetown — brain candy for the "good soldiers" who toil in cubicles, who would die before they would screw around while they're on the clock, and who are smart enough to know they don't need to waste their time in newbie training courses for software they can figure out for themselves.
Time to
Tie Up Some Loose Ends, Yes?
I have, since the latter part of 2001, for reasons of sheer survival, kept up with khutbahs (major sermons), from Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem on alminbar.com, a website that helps Muslim clerics prepare their sermons. At alminbar.com, you will find the current drug policy of the George W. Bush administration under the title "Islamic Legislation on Drugs."
May 15, 2003
The Sleaziest Pyramid Scheme of Them All
Well, to borrow a phrase, there they go again! After more than two solid decades of being annoyed by runners and yuppie gymnasts smelling up elevators — little bottles of water everywhere, the biggest health binge in our history, W.G. Kellogg would be proud — the American public is being hectored for being lazy and obese!
July 21, 2002
Once upon a time the U.S. government was extremely generous with higher education — generous to the point of sheer foolishness, considering how the hand got bitten. Because up until the Competition in Contracting Act of 1988, colleges and universities did not have to compete for federal contracts; they were just handed out.
July 18, 2002
Before 9/11, there was considerable flap in the press about the sad lack of geographical knowledge in today’s young students. Today we find that that gap afflicts young students far less than their elders, and the most staggering lack of knowledge seems concentrated in graduates of our “best” colleges and universities!
July 18, 2002
Remember the American left? Bless their pointy little heads, they organized over everything, coalitions and action groups for and against this and that. They were often laughable, yet they did call our attention to things that did indeed often require our notice.
November 6, 2001
What we aren't allowed to tell our kids: pot is a mild analgesic,
a great decongestant, and the best thing going to fight glaucoma. No, our loving
federal government would rather you get hooked on
April 27, 2001
Racial Profiling, Look for the 200xx ZIP Code
The DEA, in its “Operation Pipeline,” has been busily teaching profiling — overt racial discrimination — to state and local police for some years now with bipartisan blessing, in the White House and elsewhere. The spectacle of two attorneys general speechifying that they will “investigate” this problem should make an honest person puke.
April 27, 2001
A Government Bankrupt in Conscience
The federal government is trying to tell you that when the credit-card companies raise your interest rate to 24 percent, it is because you are evil. What they don't want you to know is, the feds themselves are three times worse than you are — at a minimum.
April 27, 2001
Constituencies, the Rolling Thunder of the Lame and the Halt
Who has the new ideas? And who are "the lame and the halt"?
April 27, 2001
Republicans' and Democrats' positions will not be consistent, but the nature of the beast is remarkably so. Both parties seek to transfer power from the social to the political, and that is all they do or all they want to do.
April 20, 2001
Is sin hard-wired into us? Or is it all the fault of "Satan"? Is God capable of making mistakes?
April 20, 2001
Our job is not to stay on Earth with our heads in the sand, but to go out into the Universe.
April 20, 2001
Wherein We Meet the Wisdom Dude
Out here in the hammocks, we’re a little loose. We don’t keep
regular hours mostly, which doesn’t seem very much of a deal to Mother Mary
and the Dude, but it’s a very big deal in places like Alexandria, Virginia,
or Orlando. We do get out the silver at
1996
When the Wisdom Dude sits here and does what he does, he is essentially taking out his thoughts and playing with them, first for his own amusement and perhaps instruction, then for yours. Let me tell you a little bit about life in the hammocks, and how it differs from the Big City — even a Big City as intimate and friendly as Tampa is.
1996
I’ve been thinking about magic, real magic. Now, a lot of the world is stage magic, illusion, and misdirection — not real magic at all. Don’t get me wrong: stage magic can be pure essence of cool. I appreciate Mr. Copperfield’s drawing my attention away from where the Statue of Liberty once stood, since a fixed stare into that void shows the entire illusion and thus destroys all the fun.
1996
Leader of the Pack: An Appreciation of Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia, the leader of the band, the man who gave us the sound of freedom and the sheer joy of liberty: we may well be in debt to his memory forever.
August 1996
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