According to a few outspoken voices, it's been a slow month in Curacao. Can't say I'm disappointed. The fewer the merry-er, worst-writer always says. And as others say: good things come to an end. After ten days of too much sun and lots of scuba and no crowds, the hammer hits. We had two dives …
Three Highlights And A Note
There was a time when I was angry with Amazon/Kindle for disallowing the random copying/pasting of highlights from its ebooks. I also don't use the connection to Twitter or FB which is/was the alternative Amazon offered its customers when/as they/we expressed what they/we were willing to pay for. At the time, I think I had …
Hi Jack
Dreamt on May 26, 2015. After spending most of that morning jotting down the tidbits, below is what I could put together in the last few days on this glorious vacation. The thing to keep in mind, dear worst-reader, is that I'm over my jet-lag at the time of this writing between May 28-30. Jet-lag …
Klein Curacao And The Sirens
Klein Curacao. A small uninhabitable island south of Curacao. I've heard several stories about this island. At one point the Germans tried to occupy it but found it too uninhabitable and abandoned it. It was also supposed to be a quarantine island for the slaves that got sick during transport to the new world. And then …
A Winnebago In Curacao
Maybe it's the ocean. Maybe it's the ocean air. Or maybe it's the ether worst-writer has found himself in. Indeed, dear worst-reader. There is something about Curacao. I almost feel as though I'm home. Not "home" in the sense that I would want to make this my home. Nor does the thought even cross my …
Deco Beer, The Love Of Abyss And The Baby Octopus
Yesterday a few people were fiddling around on the ladder at the edge of pier as we were returning from our second dive. They're not gonna let us out, I thought. I might have to fight my way through. And I will. Will do it for king and country, for divers the world over, for …
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How To Believe
Answering the question of faith, I usually answer thus: I have not been blessed with a gift of it. Sometimes I also say it thus: I have not been blessed with the gift of faith. With that in mind, let's move beyond the spinning that takes place in my head while its trying to figure …
Talk About Pee Pee
Professor Dr. Richard Wolff. What a guy. What a professor. And he's all over the you-tubes. Can't remember the first video I saw of Wolff. Can't remember if I was bored of it or if it just felt like a lecture at the Uni I never had. One thing is certain. I've been struggling to …
Troubles Of The Autobahn Bourgeoisie
Let us take a moment, dear worst-reader, to contemplate the dilemmas of the few & far-between. Or, as I like to put it: let's have a go at the problems of the Autobahn bourgeoisie. For it is that time of season once again. Like the periodical cicada I experienced in my youth, it's a good thing …
Voucher Me This
Why is it that Neo-liberals aka followers of Milton Friedman are obsessed with government spending? I ask the question because I recently saw a video of Friedman blathering about his concept of a voucher school system (yeah, just google it) and that was somehow compounded when I read a few moments later that the United …
Consequences
Reading transcripts this morning, dear worst-reader. About what, you ask. Well. About infrastructure investments of a once great structure. At first I didn't give much of a hoot about recent train derailment. Planes fall out of skies. Rockets can't reach their instellar destinations and plummet back to earth, burning up in the atmosphere. Buildings in …
Obsexxed
The sex obsessed nation-cult? Is it me, getting old, prude? Or am I just bored of it all? At the least, I'm kinda perturbed with all the here & there of sex in what I read. I mean, I scan the news everyday. Whether it's HuffPost, Reddit or Google News, etc., I'm all over it …
What's The Motivation?
Maybe I'm just too exposed to this stuff? Maybe there's been too much of it? Maybe the lies of the mind that make up #americant are so endless that it really doesn't matter if you can figure this stuff out or not. Or. Maybe someone should ask this: why this now? A simple question, really. …
Purchase Your Repurchase Purchase
Boy do I feel bad for all those wannabee corporate suckers who believed what was said after HuffPost was purchased by AOL and the Greek-Mother cashed out. Any idear what they said, dear worst-reader? Let me give you a hint. They said: "you're jobs are gonna be fine." And now? (Short pause; breath.) Even though I'm …
Millennial Masses & Wannabees
It can't be said enough--if at all. FB is everything that AOL (and Steve Case) couldn't be. That is, FB, disguised as a "social" network, really is nothing more than an old school web portal. And we know what happens to web portals. Don't we, dear worst-reader? But. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying …
