“Pussycat, pussycat where have you been? I’ve been to London to visit the queen. Pussycat, pussycat What did you there? I frightened a little mouse under her chair.” Olde English Nursery Rhyme I’m sorry … you WHAT!?! What a trifling thing to do when visiting the QUEEN! OK, so you’re a “Pussycat” … and that’s…
LIFE IS TOUGH! It is unfair, untidy, ignoble in many respects, competitive, full of disease and disaster and takes an extraordinary measure of coping and nobility simply to make a decent “GO” of it. Yet life has its high points. It is important to draw these high points out from the basic backdrop and undercurrent…
It needs to be acknowledged at some point that a SAFER KENTUCKY begins very early in childhood development and requires intensive human development oversight. Parenting is crucial, but is so lacking in availability and effectiveness that “surrogate parenting” in the COMMUNITY is needed. First of all, nobody ever receives certifiable parenting instruction. Parents are left…
Confronted with so many untenably unresolvable circumstances, one has to ask: At what point is a life – or a whole cadre of lives – so lacking in value that it / they should no longer exist or be tolerated … or is that “somebody else’s problem”? Capital punishment – the taking of lives deemed…
Sometimes technicalities get in the way of practicalities. Who cares about the biochemistry if you can cultivate a rose to bloom! We can infer a lot about the universe that we don’t totally understand, but we can also discover or suspect at least enough about it to be able to function meaningfully / operationally as we…