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I notice I've been grousing a lot on the old blog lately. Time - sez I to myself - to write something uplifting, or at least useful. Vacation time is just around the corner. So here: Don’t Deny the Devil There are certain things in the making of recreational choices that color one’s judgment, like a well-tinted pair of sunglasses can make a day look more glamorous than it really is, or a quickly drained dram of tequila can have the same effect on a candidate for social intercourse. The hint of danger is one of those “certain things.” Hints of danger have various thresholds for individuals. Popping one’s ‘chute a thousand feet closer to the ground than usual might hint of danger to a jaded skydiver making the experience beguiling recreation. To the rest of us there are usually less well-defined danger hints. Just considering that hit of tequila, for instance, puts some people off as being ‘way over the limit, fully into danger.’ Depends on your age sometimes...

How about this black background? This is a copy of a post on me humble book blog . I love this topic (games changing the world), and I put it on the book blog because games play a big part in the book, A Reluctant God. ARG Predicts Why Some Men Don’t Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good NYTimes piece , July 3, 2017 Millennials - mostly male millennials - are working fewer hours and playing video games more hours. Big story, that.  ... Go on, take it to another level, whip in a little sci-fi: The Dream Game:  The common citizens of the Empire of Earth, those billions who populated the twenty terraformed planets and Mother Earth herself, led lives of great diversity, almost totally in the virtual worlds of shared dreams. The Dream Game. Approximately 99% of humanity spent most of their lives in the Dream Game   Dreaming became the superior form of virtual reality. VR, in all its verisimilitude, lacked the direct connection to the primi...

But I Have to Say... Don't eat that amazing, tremendous, beautiful apple ...this could start a conspiracy theory or two. [OK, malicious photog? Accidental juxtapose?]    Actually, this picture accompanied a story about how President Trump's visit to Arizona convinced Governor Ducey to "open" Arizona too early and that resulted in the awful current Covid super hot spot catastrophe.  One might say that was 'devilish,'  but that sounds playful.  I can safely say our current President is not playful.

Way to Go, California At last, a governing person who hates bots as much as I do! California state Senator Robert M. Hertzberg Bots of the Internet, Reveal Yourselves! A bill in the California legislature would regulate bots by making them disclose their automated nature. But how? Gitchee, gitchee, BOT! Bots are the body lice of the Internet. Bots are stealth brain boring parasites. Bots are the pliers and screwdrivers in the Devil's workshop. Other than those, my opinions about bots are neutral.  SEND THIS GENT YOUR BEST WISHES. SEND HIM MONEY. SEND HIM WHATEVER YOU CAN TO ENCOURAGE HIS BILL - SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGISLATION TRYING TO GET BORN. WE NEED IT DESPARATELY. Perhaps you have noticed, I have been honking this horn for a while, including "how to do it." "Like Bots" - the newest weapon BAN BOTs! ...To Save Our Country 50,000 Russian Bots... and Counting Deliver the Coup de Grace! The bigger Bot comment list. ...

Duking It Out in the Comments Sections     I just have to write comments a lot. Thats a disgusting habit I've got. ... and mostly it's good old politics that fires up my fingers, pushing my purely polarized platitudes across the  pissoire of passionate positions. Political positions, that is.* NM Political Report story:   Understaffed National Parks   Stop complaining! Long lines are the National Park tradition. Scooter Duff   "Government is bad," the Reagan mantra, is pushed into the self-fulfilling prophecy range by underfunding government's critical jobs. (Of course that leaves more money to give to major funders via tax cuts.) No problem! Just privatize the National Parks. The Republican way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Washington Post : Ann Telnaes cartoon:    Trump deal w/Chinese money and “saving Chinese jobs . ”  Lower, lower! scifiscooter The Forever Trumpsters must feel like their finge...

Swimming in the Ocean of Muslimphobia As I've admitted, I am addicted to the "Comments" following stories in Breitbart.com, our National Repository of Racism, Xenophobia, Intolerance and Fake News.                                 My impression of SOME Breitbart commenters (I'm prejudiced, I acknowledge) This little colloquy followed a typical Breitbart piece about how Muslim folk are the Devil's Spawn (see below). Commenter "ArmyAviator" whipped out the meme machine (Obama-bad; Muslims want to kill us all, etc.) One brave soul "MNUSA" dared rebut one point. I agreed and generalized about how SOME Breitbarters don't like facts and many are natural-born racists. This brought out the snarling, insulting best in "Whirling Peas." I love these folks! Note the poetry in "millions by the millions" and " importing third world savages."  THE COLLOQUY guest    ArmyAviator ...

"Comments" For several years, most of my opinionating happened on this blog.  Lately, my time at the keyboard has been mostly devoted to fictionalizing.  However, the opinions keep storming up out of my deeper brain centers and are impossible to repress.  So my efforts have moved to making "comments" on various articles, columns and op-eds. I have a sneaking feeling that these tidbits get more readership than they would if they appeared only on this blog. And since they are in response to something (sometimes to other commenters commenting on the column), I don't really have to establish a context, thus I can be pithier.  I love pithy. ANYWAY.... Here are my recent efforts.  Granted they might not make any sense if you didn't read the piece I'm commenting on. But at least you can see I haven't entirely abandoned reality for sci-fi. NEW SEQUENCING   From this point, the latest comments will be here first, rather than at the ever-retreating ...