Do It Again?

Toward the end of your days, you are given the classic test whether you were satisfied with your life.  You are given the option to live your life all over again — the whole thing up to the present moment.  But the caveat is that you cannot change a single thing.  Everything will happened just as it did the first time around.  Would you choose to do it again or would you choose not to?

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Apocalypse

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Visions of the apocalypse —
Sodom and Gomorrah cites all ablaze
My mind’s eye sees in a glimpse.
Just raise time’s perennial haze.

The Dark Ages come again.
Frightened humanity shudders within.
Disease and strife abound,
Wailing voices the only sound.

If this story should ever relate,
My next breath I would gladly forsake.
My grave a preferred domicile,
For mankind becomes an imbecile.

All Poetry — Henry Barnard

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Facebook Porn

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Facebook is becoming Porn Central.  Russians and Facebook — that’s getting all the attention, even though there’s quite a bit of doubt just how widespread the Russian Facebook impact was on the presidential election.  But Facebook is slowing sliding into a pretty deep cesspool of rather raunchy pornography, and unlike the tiny drop in the bucket of the Russian influence on Facebook, pornography on Facebook is becoming a tsunami.  Yet there’s no media coverage of that story at all.  Why?  And you’d think by now there would be an uproar by parents, given the salacious exposure to their children, but there hasn’t been a peep.  Again, why is that?

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Grocery Store Checkout Line

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When you are into nutritious, plant-based eating, you can’t help but take a peek at what foods other people in the checkout line are buying.  I was really shocked today when I observed what this old man who was just in front of me was buying.  There were no vegetables or fruit at all — zero, none.  He bought a large amount of soda — a six pack of sugared Coke and a dozen of those little bottles of diet Ginger Ale.  There were two large bottles of wine, a loaf of white bread, a quart of ice cream, and a package of chocolates that claimed to contain some peanut butter.  That was it.

The man was only slightly overweight but somewhat stooped, possibly from early onset osteoporosis; his skin was splotchy with rashes on the face; and his thinning hair was lack luster with large clumps of hair missing…

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Presexual Agreement

It is common now for the very wealthy to enter into marriages with a prenuptial agreement in order to protect the party who is extremely wealthy from being bilked by a would-be gold digger.  Given the fact that everyone knows how vicious and extremely  expensive divorce can be, prenuptial agreements would appear to be a very rational arrangement.

Today we have the so-called “Me Too Movement” where women who have been victimized by some kind of sexual transgression are coming forward and identifying the man who victimized them.  This is all to the good versus what happened in the old days where the victimized woman would just stay mum for a variety of questionable reasons — she felt she wouldn’t be believed, she didn’t want the blowback, she didn’t want the embarrassment of being victimized, she didn’t want the ordeal of a trial, etc.

But has the pendulum swung too far in the opposite direction when even an esteemed Supreme Court nominee gets hit with character assassination along these same lines?  The estimates for the number of fraudulent claims brought by women ranges from 2 to 8% for those cases that are proceeded with, but 45% of the cases are not proceeded with but dropped, so the number of fraudulent claims could be much higher — no one really knows.  And we are dealing here with interpersonal relations where the woman may in fact be very motivated to maliciously smear the man who, for whatever reason, she wants to injure.

So where does this leave the young man who wants to initiate a sexual relationship with a woman but is now afraid of a potential lawsuit by his would-be lover.  Instead of the two of  them being carried away under the moonlight with strains from a Cole Porter song in their hearts, would he in particular be well advised to seek out a presexual agreement before things gets hot and heavy.  Not exactly a most romantic gesture on his part, but has it come to this?  How else could he prove that it was consensual?

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Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey by Henry Barnard

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