Spiritual

Stab them in their lying eyes? — Caitlin Johnstone's accurate depiction of humanity's predominance of morally lazy folk (17 October 2024)

 

 

In the United States, being opposed to genocide makes one an extremist (01 March 2024)

 

 

Morally honorable Aaron Bushnell — versus the predatory vermin, who run the United States (26 February 2024)

 

 

A pointed takedown of lamentably uninsightful personal character — Tarik Cyril Amar regarding Elon Musk (31 January 2024)

 

 

George F. Smith is thinking about — the United States' punishment of Liberty-supporting displays of courage (17 January 2024)

 

 

A conclusion we share — psychiatrist Martin Greenwald on loss and gratitude — and my comment about purported wisdom's short reach (11 January 2024)

 

 

UN general assembly's Gaza cease-fire vote, synopsized — decency versus murdering devils and abysmal cowards — Manichaeism may rise from Gazas ashes (14 December 2023)

 

 

Join the few — resist becoming yet another destruction-addicted muttonhead (26 November 2023)

 

 

Paul Craig Roberts' brilliant Modernity metaphor (29 June 2023)

 

 

Noticing American leadership's ridiculousness, a Chinese spokesperson stated the obvious — and an accompanying aria (about propaganda) from Caitlin Johnstone (21 February 2023)

 

 

Poland — no doubt actively supported by Germany, Ukraine and the United States — banned Russia from 2023s commemoration of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation by the Red Army (28 January 2023)

 

 

Insight from Pepe Escobar — on the West's side, nihilism — on the multipolar others', hope (19 January 2023)

 

 

MLK Day — we killed off Western humanity's giants — and left an unending carpet of powerful lice in place (16 January 2023)

 

 

Christmas Day 2022 — ruled by the worst among us — kakistocracy — David Stockman's wham-banging take on our Great American Scumbaggery (25 December 2022)

 

 

Let's keep killing Yemeni children — effectively say the Biden administration and Congress (14 December 2022)

 

 

Constantly displayed hatred — and a lack of consequences for failed leadership — have destined the end of the Western Imperium (25 October 2022)

 

 

Does wisdom completely elude the West — having been unable to find even a trace of soulful maturity there? (09 October 2022)

 

 

Jiddhu Krishnamurti was right — you cannot be soulfully healthy and societally well-adjusted at the same time — astute observations from Caitlin Johnstone (09 September 2022)

 

 

Resistance to tyranny — embraced in a smile — Dmitri Lovetsky's AP photograph from Moscow (25 February 2022)

 

 

Here, not here, and still here — Thich Nhat Hanh has died (25 January 2022)

 

 

Mundanity is prized with age (20 January 2022)

 

 

Civilizational self-destruction, it's in the wind — Notre-Dame's interior, reportedly, is being re-designed to please non-Christians (08 December 2021)

 

 

Devil makes us do it? — US arms sales and national soul (26 May 2021)

 

 

Trouble, eventually, will find us — the more aware we are, the sooner so (20 May 2021)

 

 

Prophetic voices — C.J. Hopkins gave Matt Taibbi an overview of how the world is now (14 May 2021)

 

 

A good point from Caitlin Johnstone — geopolitics is (my words) about rampaging ego (09 April 2021)

 

 

'Conservative' Matt Walsh said — something wisely cautionary about elderly presidents (27 March 2021)

 

 

An artful description of Humanity's plight — from Caitlin Johnstone (12 March 2021)

 

 

Blowing people to bits is — "de-escalation" — according to the United States (27 February 2021)

 

 

Glimpses of sour viciousness — the United States in action — December 2020 (29 December 2020)

 

 

A Chris Hedges video worth watching — for those whose minds are still free (23 December 2020)

 

 

Being provocative as a psychic survival tool — that's my excuse (25 October 2020)

 

 

Jon Schwarz essentially (and accurately) said that — politics is about fostering deadly delusions (11 September 2020)

 

 

Age of Impenetrable Self-Involvement — we're having a baby, let's set California on fire (08 September 2020)

 

 

Wake up fighting? — Caitlin Johnstone and Didier Raoult on rebelling against foolish consensus (23 August 2020)

 

 

Coronavirus — western democracies showing arrogant ineptness — a spiritual lesson? (15 March 2020)

 

 

"Good enough" — conceptual millstone or simple equanimity? (31 December 2019)

 

 

Objecting to pillaging gets tiresome — but . . . (30 December 2019)

 

 

Andrew Bacevich described the American condition — and a comment of my own (11 September 2019)

 

 

Circles or spirals? — life's curious repetitions (17 August 2019)

 

 

Falling on one's head — a short observation about being old — with no lesson attached (15 August 2019)

 

 

Chris Hedges wrote something vital — to any hope for cultural resuscitation (06 August 2019)

 

 

Getting rid of print books — is different, now that I am old (26 July 2019)

 

 

PCSing (part 2) — the moving truck's trailer didn't burn up (14 July 2019)

 

 

PCSing — if no one was hurt, and the moving truck's trailer burned up — or your household crates fell off the container ship — would it be a bad thing? (29 May 2019)

 

 

Frugality overcome — after 5 decades, circumstances forced Old Dog Pete into buying a bike repair stand (23 April 2019)

 

 

Let's add two more logs to the "despicable humanity" pyre (30 March 2019)

 

 

Let's mess with Pete — the Cosmos' teasing sense of humor (22 Mar 2019)

 

 

A friend's untimely death reversed a Trump bobblehead's meaning (06 February 2019)

 

 

Mountains made her spiritual kin to some of us — Taiwan's Gigi Wu (23 January 2019)

 

 

There are people who matter to us personally — even though we never meet — Paul Sherwen was one (04 December 2018)

 

 

Is the monster you spawn — a whole lot worse than mine? (30 November 2018)

 

 

Google is (reportedly) planning to assist China with censorship — so scientist Jack Poulson quit — few other employees had the spine (21 September 2018)

 

 

Death of a powder blue gourami fish — and theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's essay — on feeling "done here" (19 September 2018)

 

 

Capitalism, greed — and Google's return to China (27 August 2018)

 

 

Should the Catholic church be banned — as an organization that churns out sex criminals? — Am I serious? (20 August 2018)

 

 

Might toddling Donnie's — NATO poop-throwing — be of unappreciated value? (13 July 2018)

 

 

Elizabeth Keyes on the combination of evil and American empire — parallels Svetlana Alexievich's message in her Soviet era book, Zinky Boys (31 May 2018)

 

 

Does it take brain cancer to encourage a confession — that the Iraq War was a mistake? — a comment about redemption (28 May 2018)

 

 

Is bounced-around human life like this Betta fish's? — a musing on selective randomness (14 April 2018)

 

 

Have you noticed how cheap stuff — that you once planned to replace — is still with you? (09 April 2018)

 

 

Dark humor — and the whimsically falling Chinese space station (02 April 2018)

 

 

A cynic's laugh — a handful of quotes collected by Milicent Cranor (29 January 2018)

 

 

On MLK Jr Day 2018 — an observation about "the arc of the moral universe" (15 January 2018)

 

 

Cardinals in brush — a parable? (31 December 2017)

 

 

The betta fish conspiracy — if we cannot laugh at ourselves, who are we going to giggle at? (05 December 2017)

 

 

GrumpyWithoutCoffee said — "Moronism . . . is one of the central pillars of the GOP and of conservative identity" — Is that fair? (06 October 2017)

 

 

Both American political parties are enemies of ordinary people — but Republicans win the Plutocrats' Prize for robbing the nation's soul — consider the Graham-Cassidy health care bill (21 September 2017)

 

 

In memoriam — Ryan Shefferly (10 September 2017)

 

 

Bye to my "like a kid again" bike (06 September 2017)

 

 

The cancer battle metaphor — symbolizes American culture's basic denial (21 July 2017)

 

 

Straggling buyers crept back, long after the "thrift" sale was over — another ramification of Clutter Rat Disease (04 July 2017)

 

 

Clutter rats and their stuff — when dying comes (02 July 2017)

 

 

Don’t count on it – lost in Frankfurt (19 June 2017)

 

 

Birkenau's hidden parable (31 May 2017)

 

 

A geezer's smile — hardtailing down a steepish hill in Germany (05 April 2017)

 

 

Endurance and fragmented shards — old friends (16 November 2016)

 

 

Circumstances have a way of demonstrating moral absurdity (29 August 2016)

 

 

The way it always goes — Aaron Gordon's thoughtful comment about the Rio Olympics (23 August 2016)

 

 

Passings orient us (18 July 2016)

 

 

Is Dark Humor Wrapped in a Dark Source Worth Listening to? — Convicted Fraudster Conrad Black’s Brilliant Four Sentence Summary of the United States’ Fall from Respectability (01 April 2016)

 

 

Transience in All Things — Death of a Vacuum Cleaner (12 February 2016)

 

 

Jimmy Kimmel’s Pretend Jesus Skit — Humorously Highlighted Prominent Republicans’ Rejection of Actual Jesus — a Comment on Spiritual Awareness (04 February 2016)

 

 

Helpful Illusion (04 January 2016)

 

 

 

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