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Category: Philosophy
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Extreme Idiots
Written by Sanford Begley I saw a video on FaceBook today, a line of people in wingsuits lined up and jumping off a mountain. It happened to be titled Crazy White People. I agree…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Breakup Counseling
Written by Sanford Begley Breakup counseling, should it be a thing? A young couple I know is going through a breakup. Not quite a divorce because they never married and were only together for a few years, but a hell of a lot more than the typical date for a few weeks or months and…
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Resilience
The human mind has an amazing capacity for resilience. My son and I were talking about this – he didn’t know what the word meant, so I explained it to him; it’s like poking your finger into a rubber ball. The ball doesn’t break, it bounces back into the shape it was before it was…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Honor in an Orwellian World
Written by Sanford Begley Originally published at the Otherwhere Gazette in March 2015 Most SF fans believe in honor. How can you read stories about heroes and not? I think we all believe we are honorable, I know I do. We can’t be certain though, we all fall short of our ideals, all we can…
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Finishing the Race
I’ve run in a few races, way back when. I can remember running for the sheer joy of it, when I was young and energy was boundless. The track bored me, but the path in the woods, the feel of the spongy forest floor, the wind in my hair, the sensation of power as I…
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Live like an Orchid
I was reading a book the other day that mentioned a hothouse. It was a British mystery, and the hothouse did actually play a role… and if you like Brit mysteries I can highly recommend this series which starts with A Man of Some Repute and is set in the Cold-War Era (just don’t bother…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Vittles an’ Sech
Written by Sanford Begley Vittles, a funny little word I have seldom heard in real life.When I have heard it, it has been used to evoke a certain type of ignorant redneck hillbilly, or to mock the stereotype. I probably haven’t heard it more than a few dozen times total outside of an old sitcom…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: BFP War Party
This Blast from the Past was originally published in September 2012 at Classical Values. The War Party by Sanford Begley I’ve been listening to both sides since 9/11/01. There is a group who want to go to war with Islam, a group who want to ignore it and hope it goes away, and a group…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Are You Man Enough?
Written by Sanford Begley Are you man enough? I went to the barber today. New shop, my old barber retired. So the barber was making conversation. He asked me what kind of mileage I got. What he really wanted to know was why I was driving a girlie car. You see, I got a good…
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The Gibbering Creature
I was driving home today and contemplating the nature of fear. As I got in the car and turned on the radio, the dulcet tones of a clarinet washed over me like warm honey. My day was finished, and all I had to do was to go home and finish a little light homework before…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Take the Time
Written by Sanford Begley I sit here still sated from a marvelous meal. We got a wild hair after doing laundry and went to our favorite Korean restaurant. It is a nice place, and the prices are reasonable. The food is marvelous, so marvelous in fact that I have blogged a review of this place…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Friends
written by Sanford Begley I’m like most people, I see my faults all too clearly. What I don’t see as…