“Two male faces expressing anger mingled with fear.”

Etching by Bernard Picart, 1713, after Charles Le Brun.

 

“Accidental Crotch Shot #6.”

I endured more than a few WTF moments trying to configure my new cell phone.  I was holding it my lap when trying to figure out its features; it kept showing me pictures I accidentally took of my own crotch and then cheerfully assuring me “SETUP COMPLETE!!!”

I finally pulled up the “Gallery” function on the damned thing, and there they are — eight photos of my lap.  I don’t even know how to erase them.  Gonna put ’em together and make a “Crotch Shot Collage,” and then seek an NEA grant.

It’s things like this that inspired the Luddites.

Anyway, those are indeed wood chips you see — I actually live in a giant hamster habitat.

 

Soooo, slaves were “well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government?”

I’m feeling so much better about slavery since Bill O’Reilly put it into context for me.

By his logic, I needn’t feel guilty about kidnapping a person (of any race) and chaining them up in my basement to work for me — just so long as I feed them three meals a day and graciously do not charge them rent.

Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine features “Seagull”

If you’re in the mood for a goofy summer poem, then check out my piece, “Seagull,” in the July 2016 Issue of Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine.

You can purchase a copy of the magazine via Lulu.com here:

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Or, you can download a free pdf copy of the July issue right here:

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Thanks once again to Editor Samantha Rose for allowing me to be a part of the creative community at Peeking Cat!

 

Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine Issue 16 - July 2016

“Three — it’s the magic number.”

I wish every high school in America taught three things.  Actually, I wish every high school in America taught a lot of things, but these are the things I am focusing on right now:

  1. A basic rundown of logical fallacies, but especially the straw man argument, the false dichotomy, and the sunk costs fallacy;
  2. An understanding of apophenia; and
  3. The meaning of cognitive dissonance.

It would utterly change political, social and religious discourse in this country.

If you’re unfamiliar with these terms, then Google them.  I swear they’re easy to understand, even if they sound a little esoteric.  I’m like half an imbecile, and I totally get them.

 

 

Angelo Dall’Oca Bianca’s “Pain,”1876

Oil on canvas.

Mascaron in Strasbourg, France (Photo)

Photo credit: By Ecelan (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.

Olin Warner’s “Memory,” 1896

Bronze door at main entrance of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building.

 

Well, THAT was a little scary!

I smelled something burning, and I thought I’d left the stove on downstairs.

Turns out it was only the Reichstag.

Estonia, nice knowin’ ya.

So, Trump says he might not defend certain NATO allies unless he’s satisfied they’ve paid a requisite amount of money owed to the United States.

Hey, what do you expect when a landlord wants to be President of the United States? This is, after all, the Manhattanite who was collecting overdue rent from city tenants during the Vietnam War.

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BELOW:  U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kyle Page (right), a team leader with 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, attached to Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, and an Estonian Defense Forces service member make their way over rubble in Northern Now Zad, Afghanistan, as a controlled detonation explodes behind them on Oct. 26, 2008. Marines are conducting a clearing operation of a known enemy stronghold in support of an Estonian Defense Force vehicle checkpoint.

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