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Ex Uno Plures
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand… Matthew 12:25 Donald Trump is a...
Planned Obsolescence Update
[Read our Planned Obsolescence post HERE]Our friend and reader, Abe,, sent a response to our Planned Obsolescence post. We thought it was too good not to share. Enjoy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFptlmGCOVI
Planned Obsolescence
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] I remember the Fuller Brush man calling on my house when I was in grade school. As I recall, he had a box that opened to an array of brushes one of which I chose and paid for with my own money. I worked at the...
Don Chava Taqueria Cantina
[click on BLUE links for sources and information] Huila was irked. A tortilla, made of holy corn, corn made of rain and soil and sun, that tortilla, round as the sun itself! Was God not in the rain? Did the corn not come from God? What of the sun? Was...
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Barranca (for Philip Larkin, Tomas Tranströmer, Malcolm Lowry)
... wherever you turned the abyss was waiting for you round the corner ... Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano He was drunk. Just like he had been for weeks. Months. How long he didn't know. He had journeyed well beyond sanity. It wasn’t just the booze...
The Tree by John Fowles
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] For Arbor Day I suggest reading The Tree by John Fowles. I was introduced to John Fowles by way of The Collector assigned by my college freshman English teacher (Mr. Wexler) many (too many) years ago....
The Real National Emergency In America
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Mark 8:36-38 King James Version (KJV) The best and...
My Zany Valentine
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] On the night of the festival of Lupercalia, in the second year of the reign of Claudius Gothicus, in the 1022nd year since the founding of the city, at the order of Quintus Mimmius, procurator of games,...
The Super Bowl Indicator and Other Nonsense
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information.] The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr Caveat emptor :...
Guest Post: Groucho and Harpo Save Planet Earth – Mitchell Zucker
Our friend Mitchell Zucker is filling in while our Blogger in Chief is on a temporary sabbatical. This piece was created 9 years ago, It was read in a dramatic reading in 2010 at Saranam, Jeannie Doe's wonderful dance studio in Mendoicno. It is a short black...
A Bit Of An Itch
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] And he struck Job with a grievous burning rash from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Job: 2-7 [The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary, Robert...
Guest Post: My Problem With Republicans – Gil Gevins
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] While TITM is on leave, we are posting this guest post from our friend in Puerto Vallarta, Gil Gevins. Gil is a co-owner with his wife Lucy of Lucy's Cu Cu Cabana in Puerto Vallarta, a must visit if you...