My reflection on the horror in Minneapolis: alwaysmerryandbright.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/sla…

Going to be one of those “We gotta do something about it!” days. But what? “This is something, so we must do it?”

Caution! I got caught up in the war whooping right after 9/11. I was right in the middle of it, only a few miles from ground zero. The outcome of the nation wide war whooping was the 20 year war and defeat in Afghanistan and the Patriot Act that cemented in place the digital

I don’t know what to think of all the doxxing of stupid people who put up dumb posts and comments about the assassination. I’m not going to do it. Is the doxxing essential to achieve Mutual Assured Destruction? I don’t know.

Kash Patel yelling back at Adam Schiff yesterday was quite entertaining. I hope more witnesses at congressional hearings follow Patel’s example, and I’m not even speaking on a partisan level. I’m tired of questioners posing gotcha questions in these sessions and then refusing to

We entered the Age of Plenty a couple of decades ago. The jealous fight over the zero sum pie is a thing of the past, but human psychology is having a tough time keeping up.

What’s with the horror over ICE agents using “unmarked cars?” I see NY State Police conducting traffic stops in “unmarked cars” all the time.

Musk finally and belatedly pitches FSD as a mobility tool for the elderly. I don’t know what took him so long. Now, he has to produce an FSD car for the elderly… a boxy SUV or hatchback. I’ve been wondering why he’s not seen this opportunity.

Genuine crazy Woodstock story: Three white guys pull up in front of local cafe (where I’ve actually played) in a black van. They sit down at a table. Waitress panics, convinced they’re ICE agents. Calls local whack job political group that tracks and doxxes ICE agents. Woodstock

My Methodist congregation spent yesterday building a ramp for the house of an elderly invalid. The Methodists are such wonderful, charitable people. If you’re not observant, you probably don’t know the extent of charity provided by the churches.

Today is my mother’s birthday. Wavel Thomas (yes, “Wavel”) was one of 9 children who grew up in hillbilly southern Indiana. Grandpa was a subsistence farmer and bootlegger. Mom grew up without electricity or running water. She was driving a tractor and plowing fields by the time

Every time I walk through the grocery store, I think: “Thank you, God, this is just the most amazing display of abundance and limitless choice.“ And, that’s just one grocery story, the one I patronize. My little town of about 30k (metro area 100k) has five grocery stores that

99% of political comments on X are mind reading and attributing thoughts and emotions the commenter imagined.

Grok Imagine prompt: Have Popeye swab the deck.

I refuse to desecrate the Sabbath in a social media war of denunciation, cursing and name calling.

Grok Imagine prompt: I want to animate this pic in Grok Imagine. I want the Popeye character to dance with his mop. The narrative voice should say: “Avast ye mateys! Swabbing the decks!...

It really should be a little difficult to sign up to vote.

Everything is getting better. Everybody keeps insisting otherwise.

I get a hundred demands daily on X to cancel somebody, call their employer to ask that they be fired, and in general to join a mob attack on somebody. It’s pretty ugly, and I suspect everybody else is tired of being swamped with this crap.