GALAXIES

THERE ARE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, 10 BILLION TO 1 TRILLION GALAXIES IN THE UNIVERSE.  WE UNDERLINGS HAVE ONLY ONE, SHUCKS.  I GUESS  WE'LL HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT.  NEW PLANETS ARE SHOWING UP REGULARLY.  WHAT'S UP?

BREATHE THIS IN

TRY THIS FOR SIZE  --  TAKE A SHORT INHALATION FOLLOWED BY A LONG INHALATION.  THIS WILL EMPTY MUCH MORE STALE AIR FROM YOUR LUNGS.  IT'S

CALLED TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATHING.  FEEL THE DIFFERENCE?

AS YOU AGE YOU LOSE ABOUT 30,000 BRAIN CELLS A DAY THAT IMPACTS ALL OF
YOUR LIFE, HOW YOU THINK AND HOW YOU FEEL  DON'T AGE, YOU DON'T LOSE.

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION TELLS US THAT RADIO FREQUENCY ELECTRO
MAGNETIC FIELDS CREATED BY CELL PHONES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE
CANCER IN HUMANS.  IF YOU ARE NOT HUMAN, DISREGARD THIS MESSAGE OR PUT
YOUR PHONE ON SPEAKER.

GENETIC CODE = 25000 GENES AND 100 TRILLION CELLS.  THAT'S A HELL OF A LOT
OF CELLS TO CARRY AROUND, DON'T YOU THINK?

BOTH GUINEA PIGS AND HAMSTERS SUPPLEMENT THEIR DIET BY EATING THEIR
OWN FECES.  TO EACH HIS OWN.  AREN'T THEY JUST ADORABLE?

CATS NOT SPAYED CAN PRODUCE 100 KITTENS IN HER LIFETIME.  SPAY FOR CAT'S
SAKE.  OKAY?

SENSE THIS

FIVE SENSES PLUS FIVE SENSES

vision
hearing
touch
taste
smell

WANT MORE?

pressure
temperature
pain
balance
motion

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

THE NEW MAN

MEN HAVE LATELY DISCOVERED COLOR ASSISTED BY THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY WHO NEED MORE BUSINESS, MORE DOLLARS ROLLING IN. NO LONGER DO THE COLORS OF WHITE, BLACK AND BROWN DOMINATE.

SOCKS, SHIRTS, TIES, SLACKS, JEANS, SHOES, CAPS AND FEDORAS ARE ALIVE WITH
BRIGHT SHADES.  HERE ARE JUST SOME TO PLEASE YOUR EYES.  FOLLOW ME.
SCREAMIN' GREEN, VIOLET, YELLOW, SALMON, HOT MAGENTA, OLIVE, GRANNY SMITH APPLE, AIR-FORCE BLUE, PINK, RED, ORANGE, GINGER, HOOKER'S GREEN, ECRU, EGGPLANT AND  TONS MORE. 

GROOMING IS IN WITH A PLUS.  FINGER AND TOE NAILS ARE NO LONGER DONE AT HOME, HEAVEN FORBID.  FACIALS ARE IN VOGUE,  BODY WASH IS THE TICKET, WHAT HAPPENED TO GOOD OLD SOAP? SHAVING CREAM NOW RUNS AT 35 SMACKERS FOR
THE SUCKERS WHO BELIEVE THAT MORE IS BETTER.  MINE COSTS AROUND ONE OR TWO BUCKS AND MY FACE SMILES.

IN THE WINGS WE HAVE THE COSMETIC GIANTS: CALVIN KLEIN, KENNETH COLE, JACK BLACK, MARC ECKO AND HANS DE FUKO, TO NAME A FEW.  THEY INSIST THAT MEN SHOULD SMELL NICE AT A PRICE.  EAU DE COLOGNE HAS ARRIVED WITH A VENGEANCE.  ADS USE FRENCH NAMES FOR SOME OF THEIR PRODUCTS.  POUR LES HOMME IS A COMMON LEAD-IN AS WELL AS SEDUCTIVE HOMME. AMERICANS GO GAGA OVER ZEE FRENCH. PRICES RANGE  FROM $35 TO $75 FOR THREE OUNCES.  BY THE WAY, DON'T FORGET ZEE SCRUBS, I SPEAK OF LES EXFOLIATING SCRUBS. RUB, SCRUB IN A TUB.

GOT TO SING ALONG WITH ME; HERE COMES THE GROOM  SMELLING BETTER THAN
THE BRIDE.
 

THE CLOCK IS TICKING, MARCH 2012

I HAVE DONATED, MY BODY FOR PURPOSES OF MEDICAL  EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.
MY BODY WILL BE OF SOME USE.  CONSIGNING MY BODY FOR BURIAL WAS NOT AN OPTION. MAKING FAT WORMS FATTER DID NOT APPEAL TO ME.

MY BODY SPEAKS TO ME LOUDLY AND CLEARLY ---  IT SAYS YOU'VE GOT WEEKS, MONTHS, OR AT MOST A YEAR.  I AM NOT SUICIDAL, ALTHOUGH MANY IN MY PAINFUL CONDITION WOULD OPT FOR IT.  EVERY PART OF MY TORN BODY WANTS OUT BUT THERE ARE SOME UNFINISHED TASKS I MUST ATTEND TO FIRST.

I AM NOT A  RICH MAN BUT I CAN LEAVE A LEGACY OF WORDS AND I MUST TRY TO BROADEN THIS LEGACY BY ADDING MORE  BLOG POSTS AND COMPLETING ANOTHER STORY, A TRUE STORY OF ARMY DAYS PRIOR TO BASIC TRAINING.  I CAN VISUALIZE MY FAMILY GATHERED AROUND THE LIVING ROOM, CELEBRATING  MY SCRIBBLINGS WITH LAUGHTER MIXED WITH SOME TEARS PERHAPS.

I LEAVE YOU MY WORDS, AND ALL MY LOVE



     

WHY THE RAGE?

Too many people become angry for the wrong reasons.  Rage always at the ready.  I'll try to unravel the here and the why; the utter minutiae involved simply boggles the mind.  Listen in and comment at will.

Traffic is held up for nano seconds but our worthies are gnashing their teeth nevertheless.
Meals are not served on time.  Children are screaming.  Wives are not dressed on time for a night out.
Waiters don't grovel.  Cars don't leave their parking spots in timely fashion.  The list is endless.

Mental health experts agree that these people see the world angrily,  believe everyone is out to get them,  see up as down, light as dark. who see constructive criticism as destructive.

These people are angrily marching towards sudden heart attacks, devastating strokes and an early death.

Re-examine your priorities, your real needs and those of your loved ones.  Smarten up, breathe deeply, do some meditating and live a healthy life physically and mentally.  Okay?

INTELLIGENT DESIGN?

Volumes can be written about INTELLIGENT DESIGN but I am going to concentrate simply on the word, INTELLIGENT. If mankind (a big if) is created in God's image, then God is a hell of a designer, a design that is more of a laugh than anything else. Let's consider this design as a total failure first of all. No intelligent designer would design humans laden with parts, a multiplicity of parts that are subject to pain and failure.

Why not design eyes that work so that over 50% of the population don't need eyeglasses. Or design a heart that works so that heart disease is not the number one killer in the United States.
Why not design a digestive system that works so that people are not bothered by diarrhea, or constipation? Or a brain that functions and does not surrender to addictions, to alcohol, nicotine, heroin, cocaine, gambling and the list is endless. Why the common cold, cancer, chronic pain, back trouble? Why thousands of brain cells that can go awry and lead to Alzheimer's disease?

So who were these people that re-introduced the term, INTELLIGENT DESIGN in our modern era? Oh so clever, a design that was hatched by the true believers to challenge true science and replace it with pseudo science celebrating the phrase as one that would: Mask it's real aim of divorcing it from religion and creationism and building the two words into a more acceptable way, one that would parade as simply a forward thrust into the realm of architectural design that happened to be lauding a designer but they are not telling who it is at the moment.

Meantime, back at the theological ranch, they would circumvent the little thing known as SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, and sneak into the halls of learning as the legitimate
science challenging the upstart Darwin and his theory of evolution. Alright, alright they finally conceded, we'll have both their, ahem, science and our true science side by side -- while somehow allowing 75% devoted to our side and the rest for evolution.

Your writer, an evolutionary oldster, who managed to evolve into the over-ripe age of 87 all the while relying on reason rather than faith to reach conclusions. Now a word to the faithful; Please don't tell me that "god works in mysterious ways, that she, he it, cannot be questioned, that god loves us all, one in all equally and that all calamitous events were not god's doing but were brought about by sinners. Holocaust sinners? Haitian sinners? The 50 million dead sinners of world war two, sinners?

I welcome all comments, favorable of unfavorable. See you if I see you. The thing is I'm blind in one eye and the other makes a show of seeing but kinda falls short.