Sunday, November 03, 2024

Attention

If you want to keep someone interested make sure there are patterns they can recognise even if they don't exist.

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Monday, April 01, 2024

Fight to the death

No one wants to die but I'd rather face a predator than a parasite. 

Friday, October 13, 2023

Useful information

Organising information is crucially different to actively using information.

Monday, September 04, 2023

Early murmurs

Words and concepts are often, not always, precursors to propagandising populations to accept plans of the elite.

Sunday, June 25, 2023

A square kneel

The king doesn't trust people to kneel at home he wants to see them kneeling in the square.

Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Surely so

Acknowledging we all have biases doesn't mean we can't discuss issues but it does temper certainty.

Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Monday, February 20, 2023

Sunday, February 05, 2023

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Healthy questions

Science demands we ask questions to keep it healthy. Feelings based censorship is a sickness.

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Field effects

Sometimes we can skip through a minefield.
At other times we blow up on our first step.

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Way too comfortable

If you stay within your comfort zone then you'll always be there.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Totalitarian equality

You can't have fascism without totalitarianism and you can't have totalitarianism without progressive politics using totalitarianism to enforce equality.

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Hunting with no gun

When I go hunting everyone in the car gets credit, even the driver without a gun.

Monday, March 07, 2022

Hueves

You can lead a horse to watercolours but you can't make it pink.

Friday, January 14, 2022

Hanging Jesters

When the only people who can report facts are journalists, and the only people who can be journalists are those approved by the establishment being reported upon, then only the Courtiers remain and the Jesters are hung.

Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Devilish corruption

The devil corrupts what we most trust and abuses it till we see his game.

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Monday, September 13, 2021

Nourishing nature

Losing our connection with nature is like drinking Brawndo instead of water.

Monday, February 08, 2021

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Friday, January 01, 2021

A long smile

Photons from stars have travelled trillions of kilometres across space to be welcomed by our eyes and make us smile.

Friday, October 23, 2020

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Confined laughter

Keep drawing lines that can't be crossed by humour and soon you'll have a cage.

Saturday, August 08, 2020

Illuminating politics

The best time to see the light is while sunlight shines on the truth.

Monday, August 03, 2020

Money tree

Your wealth doesn't matter. A frangipani is still a frangipani. 

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Liquid reign

Make the trail inviting and horses will lead themselves to water.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Calculating control

Money and power are both variables in the control equation.

Next thought

As long as the next generations can think freely a golden future is assured.

Natural time

Humans think in terms of days. Nature ponders decades.

Monday, July 06, 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Cooperative evil

A snake's venom is useless without the rest of the body pushing fangs into the child's crib.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Begone demon of negativity

When you live in the household of reality never invite a succubus to cross the threshold.

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Rebiting desired fruit

Never trust the soothing words of a viper who saw you recoil faster than expected from their first failed strike. 

Thursday, April 02, 2020

Sunday, March 08, 2020

Voter’s worth

We know how little our politicians value us by how little it takes to bribe them against us.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Fresh Bait

"I'll only tax the rich" is a well worn hook for fingerlings.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Wherever we look

We look ahead. We look behind. We look up and we look down. Wherever we look there are mysteries to solve and wonders to behold.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Saturday, October 05, 2019

Election tails


The closer they get to elections the more fox tails they need to hang from the barbed wire. 

Friday, July 12, 2019

Seeking validation

If you continually ask for permission people will keep saying no.

War’s aftertaste

Cleansing the palette with a sorbet of self righteousness doesn't wash away the taint left by a banquet of violence. 

Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Canine shakes

Restless dogs don't guarantee an earthquake but it's the wrong time to hide in a hole.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Sour purge

When politics sour worms turn and those in line cheer the purges of those ahead.

Sunday, February 03, 2019

Crafty consequences

The population of foxes tends to triple when bounties are paid for tails.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Saturday, January 12, 2019

The balloon of justice

The citizenry used to have a powerful pin but pages of legislation papier-mâchéd with political spittle onto the justice balloon have made it almost impervious to our will.

The bountiful cherry tree

When you find a slightly rotten cherry in your basket don't chop down the whole tree in anger.

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Loony Democracy

Democracy - your "common sense" candidates are someone else's loonies and vice versa. You're both right and you're both wrong. 

Sunday, December 02, 2018

When to leave

When the "illuminated" crowd is exhorting you to get in ... get out.

Thursday, November 08, 2018

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Inside the walls

Regicide works best when courtiers offer to deliver the poison.

Saturday, October 06, 2018

Elite socialism

The "means of production" have nothing to do with average values.