Whose Reality is This?

A friend suggested I post my Laws. So I shall. First Law: Where there's a positive, there is a negative. Everything operates in systems...

...and you will know yourself. Are we our worst enemy? We don't have to be. No, I think we are all bozos on this bus of life [1]. “Imagi...

I never set out to be weird. It was always the other people who called me weird. -- Frank Zappa , to The Baltimore Sun, October 12, 1986

And a challenge for all of us to think outside our boxes. Joan Roughgarden, a Stanford University biologist, challenges classical Darwinian ...

Here's your chance, all you budding cartoonists! The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) birthed a brainstorm for a contest to speak ou...

In the spirit of yin and yang, I have two blog sites. Thinking back to little more than a year ago, this activity began reluctantly as an e...

I would proclaim and enforce a fee of a dime for every vehicle turning and not using their turn signal. I suspect the national deficit would...

I have of late spent most of my rare time at home mowing the flora on my five acres of Solitude in Central Texas. Thanks to modern technolog...

For all you fellow astronomy nerds out there, especially those with telescopes, here's your chance: Comet 73P. In 1995 this comet unexpe...

I am an outlier amongst my own gender. A bookstore-aholic, I often find solace in the bookstores amongst the book and magazine racks and the...

"When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain re...

Or more accurately, apes. One of the most brilliant media commentaries on just who we really are: The Monkeys ..... are us. "Attention...

I watched with trepidation this Age blossom and pollinate over the last twenty-plus years. Now its seeds are growing all over the world. In ...

Everyone would be permitted to voice their opinions. That’s what they are: opinions. If they offend you, debate them intelligently...

Ending yesterday's ride, I rode up the ramp on Red into the shop, turned off the engine and sat in the saddle for a long moment. Removi...

Nothing is as impressive and electrifying as, well, a Texas electrical storm. Lightening between the clouds on the horizon teases with a hi...

First Scatology, now Buttology. What's next? Penisology? Hmm...... Rear Admirable David Holmes, a psychologist at Manchester Metropolita...

I came across a passage in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig that was an echo from my own past. A brief converstai...

.....into your heart it will creep. Starts when you're always afraid. Step out of line, the Man comes and takes you away." A flash...

Early (very early) morning coffee with a few colleagues in the departmental office can be enlightening. We pondered several hypotheses of t...