Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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The Complexity of Hypocrisy in the Age of Donald Trump
Dante and Virgil, on the right, watch the hypocrites, wearing lead-lined cloaks, filing past the high priest Caiaphas, who is nailed to a cross on the ground. Caiaphas was the priest who said that Christ should die. Each hypocrite steps on Caiaphas as he passes....
The Medium is the Message: David Wallace, Marshall McLuhan, Delarosa Redux
[click on blue links for further information] The brilliant author, David Wallace, gave a commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005 with the title This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. ...
Calm Down and Shut Up: The Politics of Lao Tzu
[click on blue links for further information] NOTE: All translations of Lao Tzu are from Ursula Le Guin or Witter Bynner unless otherwise noted. You might say that I’ve been a mess of emotions since the November election. The candidate that I least...
Short Fiction: El Chapo
Today's News: Drug lord 'El Chapo' extradited to the U.S. I wrote this one year ago while in Puerto Vallarta. Gotta Do It “Listen Guzman, we gotta do it. We gotta build a wall. Those Americans are flocking down here, drunks, fat people, cheapskates and...
Bonehead Economics: Things to Know in the Era of Trompudo
[click on BLUE links for more details or information] "Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient." Lawrence Summers My brother was eight years older, and I idolized him. When he went away to...
Martin Luther King Day 2017
Today we celebrate the life of an American hero. One day is not enough. I suggest you contemplate Dr. King's life and accomplishments throughout each year at moments that arise spontaneously whenever you are confronted with racism, sexism, or any other "ism"...
President’s Day Thoughts
[click on blue links for further information] As my friends and family know, I’m a bookhound. I’m also an unabashed political freak/nerd/addict. I’m no authority but I have watched every presidential election since Eisenhower versus Stevenson. ...
Tre Piatti: Food and Art in Puerto Vallarta
[please click on blue links for further information] “Everything we do turns to shit in a few hours.” James Larsen, owner, The Restaurant, Fort Bragg, CA Tre Piatti is a regional Italian restaurant in the heart of the Zona Romantica in...
Trompudo, A Literary Phenomena
[Please click on blue links for further information] “Donald Trump – a ludicrous figure, but at least he’s lived it up a bit in the real world and at least he’s worked out how to cover 90 per cent of his skull with 30 per cent of his hair … It always...
Muriel’s Raicilla
[click on blue links for further information] “Long ago my grandfather used a Canoe to cross the bay from Pizota to Sayulita or to Vallarta to sell it.” Muriel Castillon I first tasted Raicilla in 2010. I was spending a few days with my family at...
New Years 2017 Napkin Art Special
[click on blue links for further information] First, a few facts about New Years: The date of New Year’s Day seems so fundamental that it’s almost as though nature ordained it. But New Year’s Day is a civil event. Its date isn’t precisely fixed by any...
Some Optimistic Reads On Christmas Day 2016
[click on blue links to read the article and for further information] Pollyannish: A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic. [after the heroine of the novel Pollyanna by Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920), American writer “Never short...