tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298201702024-03-05T13:41:45.797-08:00Rotten AppleAn eclectic potpourri of political comment & observations plus the insane ramblings of an old mythster: (that suffix modifies a noun (or adjective) to create a new noun that serves to associate a person or thing involved with the original noun. "mythster" - a person who is associated with myths1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-7808506449405296582018-10-10T10:45:00.000-07:002018-10-10T10:45:01.470-07:00
I was born in Chicago in 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression and the early days of FDR's administration. My parents were recent arrivals to Chicago. They'd moved from New York when my dad got a job as a copy writer at Montgomery Ward. I was their first child and my mother found motherhood difficult - almost impossible. Her sister Helen came out from New York to care me. Eventually, I 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-91537760916941729732016-11-09T09:12:00.003-08:002018-10-10T10:44:29.040-07:00An Axial Moment in America
As I recover from the shock of Trump's victory, I begin to see things more clearly and I realize that when the richest country in the world has three million homeless on any given day and 15% of our people are living below the poverty line while the top 1% enjoy the wealth of Croesus, there is something rotten in - America.
Donald Trump saw this paradox and built his entire campaign strategy 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-73469999643961812812016-11-09T09:12:00.001-08:002016-11-09T09:12:57.470-08:00An Axial Moment in America
As I recover from the shock of Trump's victory, I begin to see things more clearly and I realize that when the richest country in the world has three million homeless on any given day and 15% of our people are living below the poverty line while the top 1% enjoy the wealth of Croesus, there is something rotten in - America.
Donald Trump saw this paradox and built his entire campaign strategy 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-1463845364185631532016-02-20T13:02:00.000-08:002018-10-10T10:45:16.966-07:00Are We Connected?
As a youngster (from 7-11) I frequently attempted to divide the world into two opposing camps. “The good Guys and the Bad”, “White Hats and Black hats”, “Rats and Finks” etc. One day when I was explaining my latest dichotomy to my dad, he suggested that I might divide people into two groups: those who divided the world into groups and those who didn’t. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-44463131673673156342015-03-19T17:23:00.000-07:002015-03-19T17:24:17.024-07:00Another Day in the Slow Lane
Yesterday, I read an entry on one of my favorite blogs, “Time Goes By” hosted and written by Ronni Bennet. Her subject of the day was boredom and how as we get older, our lives seem to be taken up by the all the boring stuff we have to do - we’ve been doing most of them forever but Ronni was bitching about how all the stuff takes up some much of our time - and effort. Washing dishes, taking out 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-78119416569659015342015-03-09T15:45:00.000-07:002015-03-09T15:45:10.706-07:00A Boy's Old Rockaway 1940-1944
Rockaway is a beach community on a narrow peninsula about 12 Miles from New York City. I don't think I ever heard anyone call Rockaway the "Irish Riviera" For several years It was a kind of paradise for me and my cousins. We spent summers there in a two story bungalow on 116th St about 50 yards from the boardwalk and the beach.
My mother and a few of her ten sisters, along with 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0Unknown location.47.517200697839442 -59.0625-23.707706802160558 135.703125 90 106.171875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-4206489114743613702015-01-05T16:57:00.000-08:002015-01-05T16:57:00.517-08:00
MY DAD WAS A REAL MAD MAN
Move over Don Draper, he was the real thing. After he got a degree in chemical engineering and squandered his inheritance on booze and high living,dad started looking for a job. That was just before the stock market crash of ’29 and jobs for engineers were scarce so my dad decided to try something different. He took a job at Garfinkle’s Department Store at the 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-117830848419283712014-08-12T12:13:00.001-07:002014-08-12T12:13:44.178-07:00Robin Williams' SuicideAccording to a report published in today's Morning Telegraph (UK) Robin Williams hung himself. He was evidently suffering from acute depression. The mad,incredibly inventive and totally original riffs on almost any subject, for which he was justly famous could have been stimulated by a bi-polar condition. I find it difficult to avoid associating Williams' death with that of Phillip Seymour 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-20616498752378850962014-03-26T13:39:00.000-07:002014-03-26T13:39:37.832-07:00"Some Are Gone..." from My LifeThose aren't teardrops on my keyboard - it's just condensation. OK maybe not all condensation. A couple of tears shed for the friends who have gone ahead maybe. Someone recently remarked that he knew he was getting old when he saw frequent obituaries in the paper about his friends and contemporaries. I replied that "you know you're really old, a 'Super Elder" when you don't see many obituaries 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-10557391966499461282014-02-02T13:59:00.000-08:002014-02-02T13:59:26.638-08:00A Painful ExperienceYesterday was...August 14, 1968
My mother died in April. She was 54 and I hadn't heard anything from her since I arrived in Italy in '64. I was never very good about communicating with my mother- it was something I knew I should do but I was always puting it off and now it was too late. I struggled with her death and my guilt. Maybe if I had made more of an effort to keep in touch? I never knew1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-58142634806101493782013-12-23T18:35:00.000-08:002013-12-23T18:35:52.713-08:00A Great Duck Recipe
Try it you'll love it1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-38910680776733028512013-09-07T15:40:00.000-07:002013-09-07T15:40:04.948-07:00"What Are You Laughing At?"
One of several things that I learned rather late in life, is that a sense of humor is neither objective nor universal. Some people are completely devoid of any sense of humor and all of us will never agree on what's funny. Research in neuroscience of the brain indicates that there's a strong possibility that humor may have its origins in the frontal cortex,the most advanced or evolved part of 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com1North America31.503629305773028 -96.8554687524.637915805773027 -107.18261724999999 38.36934280577303 -86.528320250000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-36312159013105435652013-02-26T09:49:00.001-08:002013-02-26T09:49:54.568-08:00"Wages of Celibacy"NY Times 02/28/'13
The new Pope must revise dogma on celibacy. It's probably OK for monastics but for the parish priests it can be the proverbial "Road to hell -paved with good intentions"1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-39566272508039196032013-02-23T14:10:00.000-08:002013-02-23T14:10:13.243-08:00Something's Rotten in Rome
It's the Vatican and Benedict has inadvertently exposed the mess. The Gay Cabal has been operating for centuries and the priests' abuse of children is nothing new either. omerta has been traditiom in Italy for centuries and has helped the Vatican Cardinals conceal the homosexual cabal for centuries. According to tradition, Omertà is a code of silence, according to one of the first Mafia 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-85898627980067636692013-01-30T14:44:00.001-08:002013-01-30T14:44:56.993-08:00The Burrow: There's a New Mosaic in TownHere's someone who has exploited the web's potential in her blog. Check it out1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-7896584256070193992013-01-18T16:26:00.001-08:002013-01-18T16:26:08.354-08:00The News from Montana is Really Bad
Drug enforcement is big business, employing thousands of people here and abroad. That's a lot of jobs- most of them with good salaries and government pensions. It's going to be very hard to switch these folks to a different career path and give up what they've got now and all the power that goes with it.
WHO STANDS TO GAIN FROM THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA?
Cancer victims and thousands of 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-60290852575682328822013-01-07T18:49:00.001-08:002013-01-07T18:49:30.197-08:00AddThis Chrome ExtensionAddThis Chrome Extension1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-89051529164619734292012-11-18T11:38:00.001-08:002012-11-18T11:38:52.882-08:00Opinion Roundup: Does The Petraeus Affair Matter? : NPRIt takes very little to attract a monkey's attention. Often a bit of tinfoil or a bright leaf will do the trick. The mass media are the monkeys of the 21st century and you've got your Fox monkeys, MSNBC monkeys and all the rest of the busy little media monkeys dashing around, looking for more distraction to show the millions of spectator monkeys.
Can't we stop monkeying around?1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-55912166879254830322012-11-09T09:51:00.001-08:002012-11-09T09:51:40.892-08:00Obama And Congress Must Tackle Impending Financial Crisis ImmediatelyNow is the time for every citizen to demand that their elected representatives in Washington work out a solution to the budget crisis they have created now, before it's too late. How can we get a petition going while we all deluge congress with e-mail and phone calls. Will OWC participate and if not, why not?1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-7024194735218881092012-10-25T13:11:00.001-07:002012-10-25T13:11:41.235-07:00TIME GOES BY | TGB Elders and the 2012 Election I have now decided that I will vote for Obama in November even though my heart isn't completely in it the way it was in 2008. Obama has been a great disappointment these past four years and the 3rd debate certainly didn't get me "fired up and ready to got" the way me and my fellow Texas campaign workers were when we canvassed in Ohio the last time. Since I am a resident of "the Great State 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-64988118629523946022012-09-18T09:44:00.000-07:002012-09-18T09:44:00.262-07:00Doing the Right Thing "Providence House is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to transition women who are homeless and recently released from prison back into society. We provide case management and an array of programs throughout our network of transitional residences, individual apartments, and permanent supportive housing.
Our goal is to help our residents obtain permanent housing, get an education, 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-31545530296858141322012-09-02T11:50:00.001-07:002012-09-02T12:03:45.649-07:00Touring the brainOver the past five years, I have read at least 50 books on the workings of the brain and almost countless articles. Neuroscience, brain mapping, emotional disability and Neurological psychology has captured my attention permanently. This article, Excerpted from "The Ravenous Brain," available from Basic Books, is one of the the most lucid articles I have yet to encounter. It is extremely well 1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-3193070271509605452012-08-15T14:18:00.001-07:002012-08-15T14:18:04.659-07:00Mature Landscaping: Checking In The Frog PileMature Landscaping: Checking In The Frog Pile
I met a new friend on the way to Basho's Pond1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-24657126987352899342012-07-20T08:11:00.001-07:002012-07-20T08:11:44.742-07:00snopes.com: Warren Buffett on Fixing Congresssnopes.com: Warren Buffett on Fixing Congress:
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The current situation in Congress will be seen by some as a comedic interlude in the constant degradation of our national political institutions or the worst moment in U.S. political history since the Civil War. Either way, something must be done before the poseurs occupying the national houses of Congress push us over the cliff. The1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29820170.post-8812521072077129372012-06-03T10:57:00.001-07:002012-06-03T10:57:00.613-07:00http://www.welcometothebathtub.comhttp://www.welcometothebathtub.com
This looks like it's gonna something else1000mythshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249354654422705279noreply@blogger.com0