Category Archives: Blogging

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

And So This Is Christmas

Damien Rice Covers Happy Christmas.

Happy Christ­mas John Lennon Cover

I’m Free, I’m Free, And I’m Waiting For You To Follow Me — Holiday Hosting

If I told you what it takes
to reach the highest high,
You’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that sim­ple’
I recei­ved this holi­day offer and thought I’d pass it on. My hos­ting com­pany, site­ground, sends something out each Christ­mas for friends and family. This year it was a ten dollar hos­ting pac­kage, and that is for a year.

A Closet With A View, And Other Saturday Evening Sundries

Sun­dries for an early Satur­day night.
In his article Rise of Nuc­lear Alar­mism, John Mue­ller (Woody Hayes Chair of Natio­nal Secu­rity Stu­dies at the Mershon Cen­ter for Inter­na­tio­nal Secu­rity Stu­dies), asks and ans­wers “how we lear­ned to start worr­ying and fear the bomb  —  and why we don’t have to”. A nice com­pa­nion read to his

Nerve Plucks

Mellow on Mon­day I am, so much so that it’s now Tues­day. No duti­ful dysphe­mis­tic metaphors today, merely a con­ge­ries of nerve pluc­kers. Unlike nerve twitchers, which con­ti­nue their spas­mo­dic mean­de­ring through the psyche for some time, making them a sig­ni­fi­cant and serious anno­yance, a nerve pluc­ker is merely an exter­nal itch. Once scratched,