Daniel W.

@Strega, that sounds like a good guideline to work on.  I used the word “guideline” because on reconsidering, “commandment” or “rule” is too firm.

This is my most important commandment:  Always have a bottle of Tabasco on hand, for all meals.  Doesn’t matter – pizza, eggs, potatoes, bread – Tabasco makes life worth living.

Interesting list.  Not my ten top rules for living, but some are similar.  Mine would go something like (in no particular order) –

1.  Be kind to other people and beings.  That includes being kind to myself.

2.  Live a life of conscious gratitude.  The fact is, most people in most places and most times, have had it much much worse than I have.…[Read more]

It’s a very sad situation when religious organizations are providing evangelism under  the guise of health care.

I do wonder about one aspect of the response, which is stating that “the church” is supporting the facility.   I could see, maybe, a separate entity supported by various churches, which would have its own name, or an answer with the na…[Read more]

He won’t be impeached.  At this point, he could be found in bet with both a dead girl and a live boy, eating a kitten and puppy sandwich, and with film footage of Ukrainian and Russian ladies of the night peeing on him, AND film footage of him shooting someone’s grandmother in the back,  and he still won’t be impeached.   We thought Reagan was tef…[Read more]

I don’t know what to think about this. As far as the current Russian and current US (right wing) coddling up to each other, I keep thinking about the scene at the end of Orwell’s Animal Farm, where Napoleon has a dinner party and the the animals looking through the window can’t tell the difference between the pigs and the farmers.

As for…[Read more]

Even though I like the quote about religion being a way for otherise good people to do evil things, I think it’s more of a proxy or focus for tribalism.  For example, while Germany’s genocide of Jews was Christian vs. Jew, it was ethnic white European / germanic vs. Jewish (and dark complexion Roma).   In North America, killing every Native Am…[Read more]

This confirms my general impression about life in India.  People in the West often completely forget about Hinduism, which is as oppressive and supportive of subjugation of underclass people, as any Abrahamic religion.  The Hindu caste system is/was brutal, and the repercussions are still ongoing.  Oppression of women and gays is brutal.  And Hin…[Read more]