I find Jack Handey brilliant and hilarious. Here is his latest essay on how things even out. (Perhaps the funniest line is a sleeper: “Even in the afterlife things probably even out, although I can’t imagine how.” Why do you suppose ‘the afterlife’ was invented in the first place?!) Continue reading

Listen: I know I’m not a poet, but what’s the point of blogging if you can’t throw an amateur attempt out there once in a while? Here goes: A reason for the aliens When the aliens in their shimmery green space suits Finally pin me to the ground and ask me (demand, in fact) To… Continue reading

Mildly amusing link. Continue reading

A recent commenter offered this stunning speculation on the nature of aesthetics by Jorge Luis Borges: “Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation… Continue reading

Well, I have put the Spinoza/Nietzsche book on the back burner for now. I have found that bashing religion with arguments makes me unhappy, so I’ll let it alone. I’ll work full-force instead on a book on Nietzsche, which was my original plan anyway.  (I may also write a separate book on Spinoza; we’ll see.)… Continue reading