This chapter returns to many concepts presented earlier, asserted from a historical perspective, with the intent of enhancing those concepts...

Authority and I have a very mixed relationship.  I maintain that half of society's problems involve a deep misunderstanding of authority...

This is a comment offered on another's blog concerning a linked article  recently published in The Atlantic: The End of College Life. (T...

... a Say What offering.  This is a comment posted in response to this article:  https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3667954593319-the-best-way...

Let's face it, America is suffering a serious identity crisis.  No one knows why the old labels don't fit anymore, but the fact is t...

The woman of my world has found a new focus for her contemplations.  She’s thinking in the realms where ideas do battle for control of the h...

“Sir, there is one asset available that isn’t in this plan.”  The lieutenant had that look on his face, the one heroes and dead men wear go...

==originally published 5/22/16== My mother, with whom I had a totally lousy relationship, always swore that half of my problem (refusing...

You get four tries, most of the time you'll use three of them and if in three tries you haven't made a ten yard advance to win a n...

 You Don't Say...  a new series of considered commentary inspired by quality journalism on contemporary subjects found floating through...

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Swords are usually involved in grim things, matters of conflict, matters of war.   Not the happiest of subjects. The focus of the series h...

  The question opened two chapters ago still hangs open: how many, if any, of the psychological foibles and failings inherent to the indiv...

Tardation: a manufactured and artificially installed psychological malady emulating an addicted state of life where irrational political b...

=== originally published 11/11/2014... but, with elections back on the horizon it might be a good time to revisit this thought... ==== I...

Originally Published 8/31/11  No, the title of this post does not refer to some obscure 1950's do-wop band. For several years now...

Now Jimmy and Johnny are dual you see, Dwelling within the same head And Jimmy had found him a lovely sweet lass Who delighted i...

  ...concerning Propaganda and the current state of affairs. I saw something today I never thought I'd see… someone defending the wo...

Flower of an Unknown Land --originally published 4/4/2015--   I’ve heard it said that if you’re really interested, willing to wait and ...

...is there a Research Psychologist in the house? Ok, it's an old bigotry that got surfaced and, to a degree. broken.  I think I was may...

Once upon a time I got asked how I came by my pen name, Cyranos DeMet.  I've discovered that quite by accident my pen name is unique, i...

It’s a great old song, jukebox fave for many decades running,   good chance you know it well.   “Good golly Miss Molly  Sure like to bal...

Why is it the worst of life’s disasters always seem to have Love embedded in them somewhere near the middle?  I mean really, what’s going o...

===originally published 5/27/2016===  Drop the B? WTF? That one does not fit. When you drop the B it is possible I might start taking yo...

The title of this chapter is taken from the lyrics of the theme song to a fine movie, the Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway version of "The Th...

 Ok, so it went down like this: the little guy wanted some Jello.  Now, he's not really all that good about asking for some things like ...

“There are things known, and there are things unknown, and between are the doors of perception.”                                    ...

Social Recon Droid …they can't see the forest for all the trees in the way.  Take this for a fact: way more than half of what created t...