one flaw

satisfaction or even pleasure was all that I had planned
but many outcomes only served to tire or to disturb
as if some god reviewed each script and panned
one flaw of intentions small and grand
my flesh reports that I am a noun
bruising continues until I see mind is just a verb

If the constitution were written in the era of King George Bush II

The bill of rights would have added to separation of church and state, a requirement for separation of corporations and state.

my faith

If you start with the "why" because you think you know why and work out the "how" from that, you have a religion and it is founded on the fog they call faith.

If you start with the "how" as you discover it and as you can prove it and work out the "why" when that is possible, then you have a science and it rests as solidly on reality as your logic will support.

In the latter case, your one article of faith is that there is any knowable consistency in nature which the senses neither lie about nor explain.

If all they can talk about is your haircut...

...all they want is your scalp but they don't have any way to get it.

what does pride taste like?

Pride is bitter. But we only discover this when we have to swallow it.

from my recipe book...

The greatest part of wisdom is sympathy.

Sarcasm is a grain of truth served in a loaf of anger.

You can always be under attack, get over it!

You can't move forward once you have circled your wagons.


Defensive just isn't an attactive posture for a progressive.


You'd think it would be easier to defend the untried idea than the failed idea.