Category Archives: free speech
Dancing Enhances Joy
Dancing Enhances Joy. You may quote me on that. More multi-media pHun.
Nightime Reality and Daytime Reality and Mental Health Awareness Month
What I experience at night is just as real, terrifying, horrific, or devastating as anything you experience in the day. Deal with it. And if you doubt me, you disrespect my condition in that you do not trust me. Yet, … Continue reading
Rhodesia Repost from Last Year
This needs to be said again. And again. Before free speech and accurate histories are regarded as only important to white racists. Updated September 22, 2021 As Long As a Free Man Breathes There Will Always Be a Rhodesia When … Continue reading
Rewriting and Forgetting History in Today’s Ever Present Moment
1984 is here. The Orwellian Era has officially begun in the United States. CNN reports (external link) that a large statute dedicated to Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia will be removed on Wednesday under orders by authorities of that … Continue reading
Back When People Could Have Fun
A few posts ago I showed a 1968 advertisement for SAS Airlines which promoted girl watching. You can read my post and look at the ad here (internal link). Harmless fun which would never again be published because of joyless … Continue reading
The Insane Hypocrisy of Facebook, Twitter, and Corporate America
While following the latest news from Afghanistan, I thought it mentioned that Taliban members were Twitter users. That seemed ludicrous since a sitting president had been banned by that service. Who could possibly be worse? As it turns out, Twitter … Continue reading
Learning to Listen
Do you have trouble listening? Really listening. I did for a long time. Instead of listening intently to someone I was mostly thinking about what I would say when it came my turn. My listening improved dramatically when I started … Continue reading
Twitter Favors Faces of the Young, Slim, and Light Skinned
The Guardian (external link) reported yesterday that a photo algorithm within Twitter favors lighter, slimmer, and younger faces. This confirms what I wrote yesterday (internal link) that the view of beauty in the West has never changed. Twitter came under … Continue reading
What Have We Gained and What Have We Lost?
In the last fifty years America has become a lot less joyful and playful to the benefit of no one. Except to the people incapable of having fun who enforce today’s morality standards. I’m 63 years old. I have no … Continue reading
My 1,000th Post
This is my 1,000th post at this site. Posting began here in 2013. I have been writing on the internet since mid-1994 and before that in walled gardens like Compuserve as well as bulletin boards before that. I did quite … Continue reading