When I was a soldier and civilian in Germany (nee West Germany) in the 1970’s, I was under a travel restriction. Because of my clearance and access, I could not travel to Warsaw Pact countries. I could travel to Berlin only on a special train from Frankfurt to Berlin or on a U.S. flagged airline. […]
Dogs on Prozac? Whaaaa?
Yup.
That is an interesting article about pets. What the article doesn’t talk about is semiotics. The talk of behavior isn’t framed in terms of signs. In semiotics, there is the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the thing you do, the signified is the understanding derived […]
Justice is a funny concept. Many times, people refer to justice, but what they want is revenge. If you read the Oresteia, you know that one of the fundamental transitions made by Western civil society was the adoption of the rule of law over the rule of revenge. Under the rule of revenge, children of […]
I have a rather amorous cat in my lap. Sylvia is in heat. This makes blogging somewhat of a challenge. But I will persevere.
I pointed out the shafts of sunlight pouring through a break in the clouds to the west of Kirkland, over Lake Washington. Seattle was in the background on the other side.
“It looks like an open door to God.”
– JMan, 8
I just experienced something and I don’t know if this is what it is like to be a substance abuser.
I went by the school to get Bookzilla. It’s Thursday, the one-on-one day. One-on-one means that each child gets time with a parent one-on-one. JMan thought that he had time with me today. I told him […]
I was on my way to a film event and noticed that the woman in the SUV next to me had a tag hanging from her rearview mirror. The tag said “Chicks Rule”. What is it, exactly, that chicks rule? Is this something to be proud of? To rule? How […]
During the late 1970’s, I worked in Germany on the Pershing Missile System as a low level operations analyst. During that time, I had access to a lot of intelligence information about our war gaming plans. The Warsaw Pact was just across the border with 100 divisions and when they attacked, it was […]
He sits, reading a coffee table book about Corvette C6s. His book mark is a letter from the Washington Department of Corrections. He wears blue jeans, a pale blue shirt and a grey sweatshirt over it. He wears a black knit watch cap and black boots. He has white hair, and […]
Breakfast, 7.45 am. JMan is looking at the syrup server. I get the syrup in the big jug at Costco and use a ketchup server with the top trimmed back to serve the syrup at table. The server is about the shape and size of a baby bottle. There’s about 1/4 […]