Over the past year I’ve made a deal with myself that I’d publish one of these little musings every week. I’ve made good on that promise up until two weeks ago. I was about to publish that piece a few Fridays back when it struck me that what I’d been writing had started to severely … Continue reading Negativity
Author: Billy's Briefs
Eden, Climate, and Capitalism
We live in Eden. This is the paradise with the life-sustaining environment that astronomers are scouring the universe in search of. Turn the telescope around and point it at the ground. This is the planet. The one we’ve evolved with and are now trying our damndest to destroy. Capitalism sucks, but I kinda get it. … Continue reading Eden, Climate, and Capitalism
Grieving America
We seem to be in the throes of the grieving process in the United States of America. Each of us is at a different stage, but I think we all feel this seismic shift in society happening. We are processing it according to the 5 stages of grief. We are grieving an end to American … Continue reading Grieving America
Amazed
I get down. Every so often I get a little down. It’s fairly scary at first because I’ve been really down at times in my life. When I start to get that down feeling I fear it is the beginning of that road into the darkness. Often this feeling is due to an imbalance in … Continue reading Amazed
85/10/5
I came across an interesting theory while listening to a conversation between two comedians on a podcast. This was a conversation of two very intelligent people and they began discussing a theory that was novel to me called the 85/10/5 theory. So the theory says that you can divide the population of the world into … Continue reading 85/10/5