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  • Everything You Need to Know about Politics

    This is timely with the upcoming election selection. I used to follow politics and other news closely. I prided myself on my knowledge of and in-depth opinions on so-called “current events” and the various political battles in the US and abroad. I was emotionally invested in this information. I expended a lot of my energy…

  • Age of Deception

    If you have felt for a while that things on Earth are just kind of off, or maybe even that everything is backwards and humanity is screwed, then this is for you. Everyone alive in 2024 has lived his entire life in the Age of Deception. Almost everything we were taught about life and the…

  • Short, Short Story

    Ordinarily I would have felt mild disdain for the woman with a valley where her waistband pinched into her enormous stomach because how could anyone neglect her body to that degree, but instead my eyes filled with tears as I watched her whimper her way out of the vet’s office holding a carrier which contained only a worn blankie. I wanted to give her…

  • Early 2015 Photos

    I haven’t been taking many photos lately mainly because this winter has been colder than a witch’s teat…after having been soaked in liquid nitrogen for a millennium times a trillion. Anyway, here ya go:   Bird Feeding The next batch is all from my bird feeders. When we got our last snowstorm, the cardinals came…

  • Two Years

    I was lying in bed last night reading after a long day of work, and it occurred to me that it has been around two years since I started this site. So I opened my computer to check the date of the first post of this site and the date is 11-7-12. Today is the two-year anniversary of…

  • You and I: Food for Thought

    It’s 11:11 am on 6-10-14 as I start writing this. I’m at my desk, it’s rainy and cool out, I keep going to the window to check on my customers, my birds who congregate and party all day long at my feeder, and my two old dogs are sound asleep on the floor in my…

  • Don’t Worry Be Happy

    I was 7 or 8 years old when I first heard Bobby McFerrin’s song “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. I lived in Miami, FL at the time and was in the back seat of the car on a family trip down to Marco Island for the weekend. I had the song playing on my Walkman, and was…

  • Cheap Humor to Make Your Day a Bit Better

    This is the best cheap humor that has accumulated in my phone over the last year or so. If you receive the Sunday Newsletter, you’ve seen a few of them, but most of them are new. Hopefully they make your Monday, or whatever day you’re reading this, a little better.    

  • A Spectrum of Matter? Food for Thought

    What if there’s a spectrum of matter just like the electromagnetic spectrum? The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is but a tiny slice of the entire thing, which I discussed here. Maybe the visible portion of a possible spectrum of matter is just a tiny sliver of the full spectrum. Just like we cannot…

  • What Is “dingtwist”?

    Some of you have been wondering where I got the name for the site. “dingtwist” is a strange word you haven’t heard before. When I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12 years old, I was hanging out with some neighborhood friends and we got in a small argument. My friend Richard became frustrated and…