Clean Thyself In the hopes that this may help someone else who ends up with similar problems, I offer this description of how I have to clean myself now. Warning: the following includes descriptions of poop and cleaning sensitive areas. Awhile ago, I ended up with MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) which could end up with […]

I hear my ex is lonely. I’ve got no more fucks to give Got no more tears to cry about her Not gonna open that door again Not gonna tear the scar from that road rash I’ve got no more fucks to give. She said do it her way, or she’d divorce me and sue […]

I introduced a friend the other day as someone who has theories almost as weird as mine. He later asked me to describe what those theories are, as he is, indeed, a curious character. I remember the episode of Monk, when he listed things he was deathly afraid of, in order. So, here are some […]

Sometimes I read some math popularization books and think, “What has that guy been smoking?” The article by Wigener about “The unreasonable effectiveness of math” about why math seems so unreasonably effective in describing and in fact, predicting how the physical universe acts is one such case. What has he been smoking? OF COURSE MATH […]

Medical Theory #1. Diabetics have excess sugar in their blood. They also have problems with infections in their feet and lower legs. I assume that sugar molecules are denser than the typical blood fluids. So it seems to be reasonable that excess sugar would tend to pool in a diabetics feet and lower legs. Sitting […]

That he will start a nuclear war That he and his minions will make abortion totally illegal That he and congress will sell out all American natural resources That he and congress will reverse all environmental protection regulations and pollution and dangerous industrial conditions will run rampant across the country. That he and congress will […]

There is no comfort in the wonder. The wonder is we are here, have been here for now almost 10 years, and still the view outside is stark, glorious, awesome. In Buzz Aldrin’s words: “That Magnificent Desolation.” The Moon. The wonder is that we are on the Moon. Living on it, staying on it, exploring […]

NASA had been bitten before by Hubris. Apollo 1, with Grissom, White and Chaffee had dashed cold water on that, for a generation. And again, the agency had grown complacent with the feeling that they’d had similar problems and nothing bad had happened. But Challenger was different. With Challenger, NASA tasted Original Sin, and in […]

All the best stories are hunting stories. The tribe sits around the fire and asks an accounting by its hunters. If it was a successful hunt, they listen while they eat, while the hunters tell of each detail, how the earth smelled, and the crows heckled, the clues they followed, the search, the hunt, the […]

There is a blog going around that purports to be from white Christian female who will vote for Trump. She supports her decision with arguments about the issues she cares about. Voltaire once said that: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Let us examine the absurdities she believes that […]