Yeah. I take no pride in saying that -- because of our hospice care -- I have probably overseen the deaths of ten times more dogs than many of you will ever own in your lives. I always have to remind myself of the moment. When the dog finally dies on its own or when the vet pushes that plunger of dr...

Thank you all for the kind words of support. It's weird. I try to remember the good times, but I can only think of the past few months which were so troublesome for him (and, to be honest, for us). That fact makes me more sure we made the right decision. But, hey! How about the good around us? Of th...

RIP Grasshopper.

We just couldn't let him keep on struggling.

Bit of a mixed bag at my household recently. As for the rescue, we have several dogs which are not very adoptable. Big and not the breeds and/or ages people seek out. They've been with us over a year. We have had some adoptions in that time, but they've been small, highly-adoptable dogs and they usu...

I read that the Catholic Church in Kansas spent $3 million on ads in a losing effort for the abortion amendment in Kansas. Cool that they do not pay taxes, tho. Gotta save some money to rape more kids. Nah. They've only paid about $4 billion in settlements so far. There's money to burn and more kid...

No worries, I'm too deadpan for sarcasm at times.

You'd make a good Warz player.

Of course not. Seeing the 'states rights' d-bags get served their own medicine is delightful.

It was very sweet. Sorry I reacted the way I did.

Yay, states rights!

Shut up. It never should have come to this and you know it. A bunch of Catholics wanted to eviscerate the Fourteenth Amendment to impose their loonyness.

With the exception of a couple of years around and about, I've lived in Kansas for nearly 30 years. Yesterday was the first time I felt that my vote actually counted. Of course, the measure was defeated by about 160,000 votes and 18 percentage points, so my vote didn't really count, but I'm nonethel...

Everyone is free to make fun of Kansas. I do it myself on a regular basis.

But not today.

Not f**king today.

You're welcome, America.

Yeah. On a rare occasion Kansas surprises me.

This is (fortunately) not really military-related. But maybe kind of. A B-29 flew over my house today while I was outside. I presume it was headed to McConnell AFB in Wichita for a function or maybe elsewhere. So many B-29s were built in Wichita during WW2. Possibly a celebration of this great and t...

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram on a silver-black phantom bike.


But nevermind that just yet.

THERE'S WARZIN' TO BE DONE!

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomasjandik_are-people-rational-activity-6731772430458662912-D_57/ Tomas Jandik Professor of Finance and Dillard's Chair in Corporate Finance at University of Arkansas - Walton College of Business Dude, you're the Dillard's Chair of something or other? I've been to Di...

How odd. I don't remember posting any of that last night. Haha.

I swear I wasn't high. Maybe drunk. Or maybe just something in the Kansas wind.

The question remains, however. After I read it I looked in the mirror and the same thing came to my mind. Sweet oblivious lucidity, I guess.

Hey, man. I'm doing OK, at least corporeally. I hope you and yours are doing OK too. "Something greater than the basics of life"? Yeah, I suppose so, but, IMO, certainly nothing non-secular. More about our very secular relationships. I can't see another human being -- in real life, on television, on...

I know it must seemed like I'm seriously stoned, but I'm not. Mirrors always fascinate me and I just have never been able to figure out if what I see is me. Because, as I implied above, I think that no one I see in real life is really anybody else. And that includes each one of you. (I know, I've ne...

I'll play... though I may be misinterpreting your question. You are the person you see in the mirror...because you are viewing your reflection through the prism of your own contextualized reality, and you recognize the reflection as the physical you. That reflection, however, is only a true version...

My question stems from the fact that I saw myself on television a couple of weeks ago. A local charity thing. That wasn't me. OK, it was me, but it was completely divorced from me. I was nothing more than the thousands of bodies and faces I see all the time. I have been troubled since I was a teenag...

Good talk

*shrug*

My question had -- to my mind -- deeper implications, but ... no one wants to play.

I forgot what's not your thing.

Oy vey. Pedantic Materialism 101 professor here. We can all be thankful.

Are you the person you see in the mirror?

I understand that. But you -- not a mod or operator (as far as I know) -- advocating for the suppression of free speech seems a little less than libertarian. I certainly support free speech. But the right of free association is no less important, and that includes the right to not associate with an...