Tag Archives: culture
Making Your Way in Uncharted Territory…
So, I was watching one of the people I follow on YouTube. It was the first time they’d posted in a while. I dig their content, so I was curious about the absence. By luck, it happens that this very … Continue reading
Putting the Civil Back in Civilization: Argumentation for the Very Busy (part II)
Everything on Earth with substance has a form. A pattern of arrangement by which we recognize it as an individual entity – a thing unto itself. Argument is no exception. (If, at this point in time you haven’t read the … Continue reading
Putting the Civil Back in Civilization: Argument: an Introduction
In recent years, hasn’t it just felt like people don’t know how to talk to each other about controversial topics anymore? Seems like there’s no end of online screeds, rants, polemics, fights, and the occasional incitement to riot. It’s one … Continue reading
The Off-Kilter Eye
It’s funny, read enough blogs about how to create a successful blog and you come across the same advice, over and over again: “Be an expert at something, and talk about that thing.” This is the latest version of, “You … Continue reading
Thinking About Standards
It’s Monday again. So let’s start the week with something that pisses me off: When someone tells you some way you should be, but leaves out the part about how to be that way. What I’m talking about, to be … Continue reading
Safety (Pin) Concerns
The other day, on Twitter, I was accused of trolling an individual – who I’m not going to name here. Now, I will admit to taking the piss out of people from time to time; mainly just my friends. But … Continue reading
Post Election Blues 2016
Well, fuck. Fuckity-fuck, fuck fuck! That pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter, as concisely as possible. It’s taken me a while to process the results. I’m still trying to process the implications and ramifications for our country. … Continue reading
Thoughts on Fitness
There’s an air quality red alert, in Knoxville, this morning. And that means I’m not leaving to house to go to the gym. Thankfully my current program allows me to use today as a recovery day. But still, it’s been … Continue reading