So I’m on facebook and a friend posts a link to a story about a priest in Wisconsin who was arrested for beating on a bunch of children.  My friend made some disgusted noises, I added some disgusted noises and related the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of my niece Angel’s murder at age four my…

So I’m on facebook and a friend posts a link to a story about a priest in Wisconsin who was arrested for beating on a bunch of children.  My friend made some disgusted noises, I added some disgusted noises and related the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of my niece Angel’s murder at age four my…

A recent conversation with my friend Hanna from Finland about differences between our countries in how corporations are held responsible for their actions led to a rather long explanation of how the system is broken and why it’s not going to get fixed quickly here without some radical changes in public thinking. The context was…

A recent conversation with my friend Hanna from Finland about differences between our countries in how corporations are held responsible for their actions led to a rather long explanation of how the system is broken and why it’s not going to get fixed quickly here without some radical changes in public thinking. The context was…

Amazon.com Widgets Use this link to order the DVD from Amazon AND help out LowGenius.Net! I first saw “Let The Right One In” on the recommendation of a dear friend who lives in Finland.  Both of us were a bit doubtful of how the US “version” of this excellent psychological horror film would “translate” to…

Amazon.com Widgets Use this link to order the DVD from Amazon AND help out LowGenius.Net! I first saw “Let The Right One In” on the recommendation of a dear friend who lives in Finland.  Both of us were a bit doubtful of how the US “version” of this excellent psychological horror film would “translate” to…

Here is the problem:  for thousands of years we people have believed that we were independent from the rest of the world, or even were the only people IN the world.  We have competed for resources in every way.  We have crafted gods with which to justify killing that other asshole before he gets those…

We humans spend our lives searching for love, and finally just giving it up as a lost cause, and then when it falls into our lap…we insult and degrade it by engaging in silly vaudeville. We humiliate and embarrass it by asking it to perform tricks. SINCERE silly vaudeville, mind you, but in the end…

We humans spend our lives searching for love, and finally just giving it up as a lost cause, and then when it falls into our lap…we insult and degrade it by engaging in silly vaudeville. We humiliate and embarrass it by asking it to perform tricks. SINCERE silly vaudeville, mind you, but in the end…

  (If you happen to stumble across this entry and are completely confused, just ignore it.  I posted it here on my blog because it’s about four and a half times longer than Facebook allows messages to be.  I have included quotes of the material I’m responding to for reference, except my first response to…