I am an artist, writer, filmmaker, and all-around creative guy. I dig my wife and three sons, comedy, Batman, ninjas, cooking, and hope to publish a book.
She complained About His Lights at Night… He Invited Her for Dinner
An elderly woman, upset and unable to sleep due to her neighbour's rope lights, confronted him. He calmly listened, agreed to turn them off by 10 PM, and gently reassured her.
Sensing her loneliness, he kindly invited her over anytime for food, wine, and conversation—turning frustration into warmth and connection.
She melted at the offer.
🇹🇷 A stray cat in Turkey shows up every morning to hug the man who fed her.
Not sometimes. Every single day.
His shop is now packed with people who come just to watch.
Allow me to introduce Bacon Butt, a character I am developing for a children's book. The title will be The Adventures of Alfredo Boy and Bacon Butt. More to come...
The fight between Israel and its enemies has many elements none of which is more important than the pitting of two diametrically opposed visions of how societies should be organized. Hence, when deciding on which side to lend your support, explore what are the foundational societal principles that best exemplify your values, and then choose accordingly. I side with Israel for many reasons none of which is more important than the fact that it offers an astronomically superior model for human flourishment (for Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists, women, the LGBTQ community, and any other individual seeking to maximize their liberties). Is freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, freedom to love, art freedom, academic freedom, and any and all other liberties best captured by Israeli society or that of its enemies? This is the ultimate distillation of this battle.
To those who wish to respond, the tenor of how you engage me will likely demonstrate my point above.
Having written The Parasitic Mind, you would think that I could never be surprised by human irrationality and duplicity. Yet, I stand before you baffled by a new phenomenon that I call Amnesia of Causality (AOC), and in some cases from fellow academics (some of whom I know personally). The cognitive/emotional distortion works as follows: A commits horrifying acts on B. B punches back. Sufferers of AOC deeply condemn the brutality of B because the first link of the causal chain is completely erased. It never existed. What A did never happened. Only B's response is open to scrutiny. Never mind the issue of supposed proportionality. A on B never happened. B on A is proof of B's evil.
16 USC §718, 707(a) & 50 CFR §91.14 make it a federal crime to enter a design in the Federal Duck Stamp contest if waterfowl are not the dominant feature of the design.