Category Archives: Philosophy

I have heard, (it seems) all of my life, to prepare for the worst and to hope for the best; I will add “actively” before hope. There are currently many fronts on which I can apply this maxim. Typically I … Continue reading →

Subservient: serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; servile; excessively submissive; obsequious. Obsequious: compliant or deferential; obedient; dutiful; fawning. A desire to control is a natural, human urge. But to work at exercising control over any realm beyond the boundaries … Continue reading →

Today I was walking south on 9th Street and, just before entering one of my lunch launch hunt haunts, I passed what felt like a Mother and her college Daughter. I took note of the daughter, and nodded to Mom … Continue reading →

For several months now, like a pinball in the hands of a dark wizard, I have caromed from feeling angry to incredulous to mystified to amused; from bumper to bumper to bumper in a constant, random, chaotic concatenation of disappointment. … Continue reading →

Our Mission is to educate the overprivileged so they may better serve the affluent in order to maintain class distinction. I have not seen this mission statement in any form or context, within any institution of higher learning; yet I … Continue reading →