Alone.
No one else now…
Not for years.
An empty corridor leading to
Another empty corridor…
And another.
Alone.
There is no one else now.
But there is unbounded freedom,
And the world beckons.
Alone.
There is no one else now.
Will I succumb
Or take flight?
Tax and spend Democrats. They never change.
In the day that LBJ wanted to usher in the “Great Society” with a whole slew of liberal reforms, the typical liberal was 100% behind the doctrine of free speech as represented in the 1st Amendment. This was a cardinal commitment of the liberal agenda way back then in the 60s. It was such a fervent commitment that the ACLU went out of its way to protect the free-speech rights of such heinous groups as the American Nazi movement and affiliated white-supremacists. According to the ACLU, such groups had an absolute right to voice their point of view, as guaranteed by federal law in the 1st Amendment.
But so-called liberals today have abandoned this principle of freedom of all speech in favor of endorsing the suppression of “hate speech,” as defined by them. According to them, and now according to the once venerable ACLU, those exhibiting what the liberals decide is hate speech should have no such right to freedom of speech. And of course the liberals can employ their Antifa street gangs to shout down anyone who dares to express opinions contrary to what the liberals deem to be commendable — Antifa acting in a way not dissimilar to the way the Brown Shirts in Germany in the 1930s went after any opposition in the streets. So I ask you, isn’t this new “liberal” — so illiberal in fact — a pretty dismal comparison to the liberals of the 60s and 70s?
As for suppressing hate speech, that is a very very slippery slope to tread, as the hate speech the liberals try to disparage with strong-arm tactics today may turn out to be their speech tomorrow.
Morning stroll.
Crossing a bridge over a busy highway.
Below, cars jockey for position.
At high speed, they dart in and out,
Passing one another,
Frantic to get somewhere quickly,
No matter the risk.
I walk on.
Every forty yards or so, I hear the next birdsong…
Each repetitive, but musical and unique, and therefore beguiling.
Relentless, they call out for a mate every morning.
They are so determined,
And will not be denied this.
Now in my 70s, I am in no hurry to get anywhere.
Nor do I need to mate.
What’s left?
Musing from quiet observations.
Bring back Trump. Let’s have borders again. And a foreign policy that makes sense.
Watched Fiddler on the Roof on Netflix. Some movies age well.
Nothing good about Biden’s mismanagement of immigration with our border with Mexican and their incredibly naive attempt to embrace Iran again.
Plus this initiative to do something about our crumbling infrastructure, which is long overdue, has all kinds of pork and liberal nonsense packed in with it — an incredibly expensive bill at a time when the government is already loaded with massive debt. At some point, this kind of extraordinary government debt will actually mean something and come back and bite is in the you-know-where.
But this is the kind of “governing” you get from Democrats. The lunatics are now in charge.
What are your thoughts? Not what are you thinking now, but what are your thoughts literally? I don’t think a thought in the mind is a word or words, although after the fact we can shape them into words to express them, but when you have them, they are these very abstract electrical impulses in the brain, it seems to me. So. in truth, there is an air of mystery about what human thought really is. Not at all clear what a thought produced by a human brain actually is.
If you want to go back to being a vegan or want to try it for the first time, start by going meatless just 2 days a week, but pick specific days, like all Mondays and Thursdays. And after you’ve done that a while, expand to 4 days a week, etc.
There is no question that vegans live the longest — by far — and that a diet that includes meat, particularly one with heavy meat consumption, is much more correlated with both heart disease and cancer, which has been known now for decades, ever since the seminal China Study. If you want to live long and without the two biggest risks to your health (heart disease and cancer), then veganism is a no brainer…if you can manage to do it.
No one believes the liberal media anymore. It’s not news but propaganda they deal in. In the 60s and 70s, the media had substantial credibility. That’s totally gone now…gone the illusion of even-handed and unbiased reporting, which seems like the height of foolish naivete. The Washington Post and New York Times are not worth one’s time.
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