Whose Reality is This?

"We have become the United States of Spite, and we are in this condition because it serves the interests of the plutocrats to have u...

"....By the time I was 19 years old, I came to view awareness not as a gift, but as a curse." - Guy McPherson, ecologist and revo...

It has begun........   Those people that struggle will be struggling more. The inequality will grow wider. Censorship and propaga...

"While being physically ill causes inflammation, it is far from being the only cause. Modern life itself seems to be a state which our...

Here we go again. "I feel like  I've been here before,  and you know,  it makes me wonder,  what's goin' on,  under t...

I hate the number seven. It seems that every seven years, my humanity is tested. Sometimes the trial is tough, challenging, and sometimes I ...

Should burns take place in spring Or wait for autumn rain? Would baiting help or hinder? Can owl chicks live through flame? ‘I dunno,’ ...

Why Academics' Writing Stinks - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education "Why should a profession that trades in ...

My ex-partner and I had an ongoing argument on university-based scientific research. He adamantly opposed publicly-funded research. His stan...

Due to an accident and injury, the last two days of this Challenge were postponed. Music is language. Not necessarily in word, but in tone...

The letter 'x' is rather lonely. Compared to other letters of the alphabet, not many words begin with this letter. My first associ...

"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates "...

Americans have their common generic name, 'Smith'. Germans have their common name, 'Volk'. I can always recognize upon intro...

Roughly 96 miles from where I live is a small remote community called Marfa (Texas). Although the town is mostly known for its density of ar...

Edward Abbey once wrote about the human propensity to ascribe everything with a name: “Unless we can name things, they remain for us only...

Today is Earth Day. It should be every day. It is also 'S' day. So here is my Statement for today. I pledge allegiance to the Ea...

"Quack, quack!", said the Quark. He thought he was a duck. The neighboring Loon looked over and said, "Oh, hum. How element...

Here in the desert some of us can smell rain even before it falls to the ground around our feet. Yet when the precious blood of life hits th...

In case new readers haven't caught on yet, I have an odd and inexplicable curiosity of names. (My favorite subject is toponyms, but that...

What is a name? What is 'in' a name? It's a Human thing :) Lizard walked ungracefully into the café front room carrying a c...