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The Devil in Plain Sight (Continued)

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Deviled Eggs Anyone? The article behind this series has grown viral legs, as it makes its global rounds, as you will discover from the link above. Now, the venerable newspaper of the left-wind, The Guardian has responded to the original article with some good tongue in cheek. The actions described in the article do not seem to bother them all that much. Seeing the original article and the new Satanism in anything but a humorous light bears consideration. The original article describes the new Satanism almost as a fusion cuisine. It contain blood. synthesized ideas from establishment recipes, and a … Continue reading The Devil in Plain Sight (Continued)

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The Devil in Plain Sight

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“Let’s Play Satan” The above link is to an article which appeared in the January 5, 2018 edition of the Los Angeles Times. The article’s title certainly got my attention, but then again it did appear under the “Entertainment” heading. However, the title got the better of me, and so I read it. To see why it was classified as “entertainment” is probably a stretch for most of us. With the description of a ritual at the anything-but-proverbial witching hour involving a male “blood smeared and stripped down to nearly “sky-clad’” who was offered up “in service to the goddess … Continue reading The Devil in Plain Sight

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Abraham Lincoln on Blockchain Technology

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“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.” Herndon’s Life of Lincoln by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik (New York, Da Capo Press, 1983), p. 354. Continue reading Abraham Lincoln on Blockchain Technology

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Siren Song of 2017

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Public address systems are not uncommon in Japan and are regularly used. Whether it is a notice about a lost purse in the Harajuku District of Tokyo, or a fire in a rural community on Kyushu, public address systems are used often. In rural Kyushu I have even been awakened at 6 a.m. to the sound of an announcement which, as I later discovered, had little immediate import. Anyway, the public address systems in Japan are not just decorative. For the 2017 launches of North Korean missiles which flew over parts of Japan (particularly the northern island of Hokkaido), the … Continue reading Siren Song of 2017

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Oh Deer!

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Another reflection on 2017 as its wick burns low. The world in which we live. This subject article comes from the venerable “Guardian” which fearfully protects us from ourselves. Or not. I read an article in January 2017 about the snow monkey and the deer (sounds like a short story or a joke) and wondered if it was more than the “rare” event statisticians so often reference to make their lives easier. While observing (a critical part of the scientific method) such behavior between species is interesting and perhaps informative, I didn’t expect that the original news report I read … Continue reading Oh Deer!

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2017 From the Rear View Mirror. Agenbite of Inwit?

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It is a beautiful early summer morning here in North Canterbury, specifically Rangiora. Rangiora is a farming community in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand’s South Island (Southland), about 30 minutes from the largest Southland city of Christchurch. A great day to pause and reflect on 2017, and my arrival here in December of 2016. Rangiora is a town of just under 20,000, and considered a farming community by most. It has a High Street, several decent shops, and of course a gym, medical clinic, and supermarket within easy walking distance. It is a great place to live, and its … Continue reading 2017 From the Rear View Mirror. Agenbite of Inwit?

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A Washington Post March? Middle Earth Won’t Have It!

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Opinion as Fact! The above created a stir here, in a country that I hope to call home. I have lived here near Christchurch, New Zealand for nearly a year. Having worked the local precinct voting site, issuing ballots to eligible New Zealand voters during the most recent general election referenced in these articles, I have a perspective entirely different from the first author. But his “opinion” seems to have a larger agenda of warning against globalization, nothing more. Try as he did, and so obviously from a rigid perspective, he severely missed the mark in his attempt to generate … Continue reading A Washington Post March? Middle Earth Won’t Have It!