Monthly Archives: April 2010
Girl on a Fence
For a while this morning, I’ve been wandering around the house peering into old stacks of magazines, looking for something to sketch. So far, all I’ve come up with is a woman sitting on a fence. I like her pose because … Continue reading
Filed under Drawings, Visual Arts
The Notion of Personality as a Means of Predicting the Future
A while back, I found myself wondering how our ancestors predicted the future. By “predicted the future”, I don’t mean anything magical. No crystal balls here. Instead, I mean the commonplace sort of predictions anyone of us today routinely and frequently makes … Continue reading
Filed under Late Night Thoughts, Thinking
The Two Most Popular American Attitudes Towards Sex?
Popular American culture seems to be dominated by two contrasting attitudes towards human sexuality. On the one hand, you have the attitude that manifests itself in the stupid sexualization of youth. It must seem to any neutral observer that America’s media, with surprisingly few exceptions, … Continue reading
Filed under Abstinence Only Sex Ed, Abuse, Adolescence, Children, Culture, Education, Health, Late Night Thoughts, Sexuality, Sexualization, Society, Values
Little Details of Life
When I was downtown earlier today I saw a woman dressed in an outfit of three highly improbable pieces — improbable, given each piece’s color, texture, pattern, and fabric. Yet, this woman somehow manged to pull it off. Her top was a simple white T-shirt printed with … Continue reading
Filed under Aesthetics, Art, Beauty
Nine American Myths
Bill Quigley has an interesting fact-check on nine common myths about the US.
Filed under Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Quality of Life, Socialism
If Real Life Were More Like the Internet
A cartoon from “This Modern Life” by Tom Tomorrow: I think Mr. Tomorrow’s cartoon is reasonably accurate, albeit one sided. The internet affects people in strange ways, but I’m not sure all those ways are negative.
Wisconsin District Attorney Goes Bonkers on Birth Control
In what appears to be some kind of politically motivated stunt, a Wisconsin district attorney is threatening certain Wisconsin school districts with prosecution if they teach their students about condoms. The State of Wisconsin recently passed a law allowing schools to opt out … Continue reading
Filed under Adolescent Sexuality, Health, Law, News and Current Events, Politics, Sexuality
Pretty Much an Obvious Post
I think it’s pretty much obvious what this post is about, don’t you?
Filed under Miscellaneous
Earth Mother’s Hair
In some parts of the American Corn Belt, the topsoil is darker than chocolate and goes down 20 feet or more. Throughout the summer months, the fragrance of the earth, and all that grows in it, saturates the humid air. … Continue reading
Filed under Miscellaneous
The Christian Religion is Morally Ineffective
I believe the continuing scandle of child abuse and cover ups in the Catholic Church is yet another reminder the Christian religion does not do an effective, nor efficient, job of causing people to behave decently. That reminder, by the way, comes contra the often … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Ethics, God(s), Religion, Values
Why is That?
Earlier today, I went downtown for the first time in above a year. Everywhere, there were little changes. The hobby shop newly stuccoed their storefront. The used bookstore introduced shelves of little nick-knacks that weren’t sold the last time I’d been in. … Continue reading
Filed under Consciousness, Meditation
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