Chinese warship cuts off US Navy ship, marking 2nd military provocation in week By Luis Martinez June 4, 2023, 6:14 AM ET • 7 min read. In the second major provocation by China’smilitary in the span of a week, a Chinese warship carried out what the U.S. military called “an unsafe maritime interaction” when it…
Month: May 2023
Rest In Peace Big Man In Black
I got the call almost a week ago, early in the morning, the sunlight just starting to poke around the towering skyscrapers. When I saw the call was from Fernando, being that early, when he lives out in Los Angeles, I answered with just three words: “F*^k. Dude. Who?” “John Tovar man.” “No way man……
America Has Only One Political Party Left — What Happened to Republicans
Disclaimer: For clarity and context, the author of the essay below was raised Republican. His grandfather was a career higher-up in the Republican Party. It was and still is “the family political party”. He himself has been a lifelong Independent. He has never been a Democrat or a Republican. He’s voted for both sides intermittently…
The Great Divide Between the Religious And The Divine
Hi Viking, As you may have noticed, Princess Little Tree subtly cut me off mid-sentence with a “uhh…” this morning in our meeting. I’m accustomed to this, so it would be understandable if you didn’t notice it. And because I trust her implicitly, i stopped speaking. She felt I “was just about to get too…
What Language Do African Americans Speak? Ebonics Versus African American Vernacular Versus Standard English
Below are a few good primer articles on Ebonics, what linguists and schools in America used to call what American blacks speak. That was changed to Black Vernacular English. Now that’s been changed to African American Vernacular English and is considered a dialect of English rather than a separate language. I remember years ago hearing…
At Its Core Royalty Is An Attempt To Legitimize Human Abominations and Those Who Commit Them – But Does It Work?
Yesterday a man called Charles in Great Britain paid for one of the most lavish and expensive parties of all time to have the people around him call him “king”. Never mind that “king” is as made up as the Easter Bunny and at this point in time his new title won’t have any actual…
DNA from 25,000-year-old pendant reveals woman who wore it — But Not So Much
There was news late this week about some archeologists who had allegedly found a 25,000 year old pendant in a cave in Siberia that belonged to a woman. It was even purported that DNA testing taught us a lot about that mysterious woman. Unfortunately, not much of the news piece is actually true, which we…
World War III Watch — May 2 – 24, 2023
Chinese Malware Hits Systems on Guam. Is Taiwan the Real Target? The code, which Microsoft said was installed by a Chinese government hacking group, set off alarms because Guam would be a centerpiece of any U.S. military response to a move against Taiwan. US response to Putin using nuclear weapons would put us at the…
New Mind-Reading Machine That Turns Peoples’ Thoughts Into Text Invented
One of the prevailing themes of life on planet earth over the last few years has been the idea of information overload. That’s the general consensus of what word combination might work best to describe this ever-growing and disturbing trend. There was a time when watching the nightly news and reading a daily newspaper kept…
What a Better World This Would Be
“Let the churches of the world [and the religions] stop trying to outstrip each other in the number of their adherents, the size of their sanctuary, the abundance of wealth. If we must compete, let us compete to see which can move toward the greatest attainment of truth, the greatest service of the poor, and…