a blog about ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
RATIOCINATIONS OUT OF THIN AIR is the title that I wanted to give this blog. But it would have been confusing as most people don’t know what “ratiocination” means and few people would take the time to look it up, despite being on the internet! [Continue reading]
A MEME MAKING THE ROUNDS on social media on the internet finally found its way to my Facebook page. The first line is, “You come from dust, you return to dust.” This is a paraphrasing of an entry from the Old Testament: “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). [Continue reading]
YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD ABOUT the yard sale find that is all over the internet by now. A person paid the $35 asking price for a porcelain bowl at a yard sale in Connecticut. The buyer was an “antique enthusiast” who thought the old bowl could be something special, meaning the buyer probably had considerable experience in buying and selling such things. [Continue reading]
OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS KNOW that we don’t watch “television.” It’s not that we don’t have cable or do any streaming, we don’t even have our television set up to receive the standard local broadcasts. But we love good movies and television series! [Continue reading]
THE IMAGE OF SANTA CLAUS in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer that allows him to visit billions of households around the globe in a single night is usually taken for granted. It is so much a part of “traditional” western pop culture that Santa’s origins—especially the magical parts—are rarely considered by most people. [Continue reading]
ON HIS LAST DAY AS PRESIDENT on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump will walk out onto 5th Avenue in New York City and shoot a random passerby. He will then announce his candidacy for the nomination of the Rep*blican Party for President of the United States in 2024. [Continue reading]
THE IDEA BEHIND “MAGA” IS FINE: “Make America Great Again!” Who can argue with those four words? Well, actually, anyone can argue with them when we consider what the word “great” is being used to describe. [Continue reading]
I DID SOME SHOPPING YESTERDAY, mostly for food. I also hit the library along the way, using curbside pick-up for items I had ordered online. I picked up a few books (including Steven Pinker’s The Sense Of Style – The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century and Norman Spinrad’s Greenhouse Summer. [Continue reading]
