Author Archives: bryan

I cannot keep up with indisputable reality, so I search for surrogate realities that fit my personal ratiocination. The bureaucracy of government cannot keep up with indisputable reality, so the bureaucrat encourages the voter to search for personal yet compatible … Continue reading →

I am a liar. Like two hooligans unknowingly caught in the act on camera, my left brain tells a different story than what my right brain experienced. And when confronted with the cinematic evidence, my left brain works very hard … Continue reading →

I feel a need to expand on a thought from last week. When I said “faith and ignorance are the basis of spirituality,” I mean that faith and ignorance are inseparable and serve (respectively) as thesis and antithesis to the … Continue reading →

This week it was brought to my attention that science has not extended life expectancy, science has mitigated the potential for premature death. Seventy-year-olds were not unheard of in previous centuries. Galileo died at 77 in 1642; Isaac Newton at … Continue reading →

My years do not qualify me yet as an antique. The adjectives “old” and “obsolete” may sway some to classify me as vintage, but its accompanying connotation of “exceptionally fine” would immediately disqualify that as a descriptor. This same reasoning … Continue reading →