There is a quote from H. L. Mencken that reads, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” Since first reading it, I’ve been struck by those words and have remembered them. Every normal man must sometimes want to throw caution [...]
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Hoist the Flag
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged abandon, action, America, American Dream, animal, basement, Bernie, black, blood, booty, build, burn, business, bust, call to arms, car, caution, Charles, cheat, chest, city on a hill, claim, company, conclusion, conscientious object, consequence, construction, context, corporation, credit, cry, damage, Darwin, desire, dollar, drought, drywall, employer, evolution, fact, family, fear, fellow, fight, flag, flip, flood, floor, freedom, frost, future, garden, generous, global, goodness, government, grace, grade school, H. L., hoist, homeless, House, hungry, hurricane, insurance, internet, investment, job, joist, liberty, lie, life, lose, Madoff, man, meaning, Mencken, money, mortgage, need, normal, nothing, pacifism, pay, payment, payoff, pirate, planet, plunder, policy, profit, rally, read, reality, risk, sales, see, sentiment, slit, society, something, spoils, stand, steal, storm surge, structural integrity, structure, survival, sword, tax, tempt, theory, throat, treasure, treatise, trust, unemployed, useless, utopia, value, victor, Wall Street, wallboard, want, war, warning, wave, weed, wind, word, work, worthless on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Father Used to Know Best
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged advertising, aid, babysitter, background, bills, card, child, child care, Christmas, clothing, club, commercialization, couch, coverage, dental, dinner, dollar, expendable, expensive, family, father, Father's Day, federal, flowers, food, fool, garage, gender, gift, golf, goofy, grill, holiday, household, hungry, idiot, income, indicator, internet, jewelry, law, lawnmower, leafblower, local, lust, maintanence, marginalize, maternal, medical, Memorial Day, men, money, mortgage, mother, Mother's Day, movies, newspaper, offspring, optometry, parent, paternal, paycheck, quaint, race, regulation, rent, repair, restriction, role, rude, school, selfish, shoes, single father, single mother, society, socks, stamps, state, subsidy, summer, supplement, supplies, tax, television, tie, transport, utility, vacation, vehicle, women, work, wrench on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After visiting a friend’s blog, I discovered that I had completely forgotten Mother’s Day. I’m not a mother myself, and have no mother or maternal relations, so I often forget. But I think fathers are getting a raw deal. Mother’s Day gets splashed all over the television, newspapers, and internet advertising like a second Christmas. [...]
Can’t See the Forest
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged inside-out, life, observation, work on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The days are getting shorter. I’m sure you’ve noticed it, too. The fantastical sunscapes of June are long gone and it’s still dark when I get up each morning, the light of dawn barely snagging in the treetops when I pull up to work. Yesterday I made the mistake of dressing in the dark. Well, [...]
Put Another Nickel In…
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged adolescence, childhood, Diana West, immaturity, inexperience, The Death of the Grown-Up, work on July 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another long one, folks. Hold on tight… When I hear the word “nickelodeon” I think of a music player, like the old song. “Put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon, all I want is loving you and music, music, music…” [ That one's for you, Lofter; maybe that'll get the crawdad song out of [...]
In Memoriam
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged holiday, Memorial Day, memories, military, remembrance, war, weekend, work on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend. For many it meant an extended visit with friends and family or at the very least another day away from work. I say “for many” because I was one of the ”other folk” far from friend and family member and locked into a twelve-hour shift. Lucky us; what [...]
Working Class Blues
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged blues, duty, employment, ethics, work on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ Warning: this may get long ... and ugly. ] I’ve written about it before, but here we go again… A lot of the time, I don’t like my job. And it’s getting worse. In their defense, they offer (some) healthcare and dental coverage, which is almost worth its weight in gold nowdays; the pay [...]
Long Way Home
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged escape, home, roads, rocks, trips, work on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I like to take the long way home. During winter, I often take the detour for its gentle grades and almost non-existent traffic, especially when weather is bad. The short way has put me in the ditch a few times and is a real white-knuckle ride when it’s slick. But in spring, summer, and fall I have [...]
Blood Money
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged blood, catch-22, civilization, family, injury, Ralph Waldo Emerson, work on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I work for a living, earn my own way in this world, and sometimes it comes with a price. Given, every job makes its demands, forces us to spend hours of our days for money to spend in return. But more than hours, days, weeks, months, years, jobs often demand a blood sacrifice. For some it may [...]
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