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Religion, old and new

I recently read the book “The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I didn’t just read it, but I read the entire series in chronological order including all the other books written by Diane Paxton. She did a good job of filling in backhistory and such, but I’m not entirely sure she took it [...]

How many times can you really fail?

Ok, there’s a saying: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”. There’s a second part to that saying, “Those who never win and never quit are idiots.” There’s a third part even, that you might have to think a bit on for it to make sense in this context: “Give a million monkeys typewriters and [...]

Kashka, the IHDK has died.

It is a sad day, today. My Ex’s kitty got a tumor in her jaw that was untreatable without $1200 in veterinarian expenses. Even though I’m not a cat person, I still think it’s a waste. Kasha was not a frail, old cat. She was active, energetic, healthy with a good coat and she was [...]

Coo-Coo for Heroin

As a precursor to a series of posts I am planning, I present to you a long standing pet rant of mine: cereal and candy commercials. The majority of commercials for candy and children’s cereals shares a single common basis: they could be seamlessly adapted to be commercials for recreational drugs. These commercials explicitly state [...]