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My Life of Words

If Samuel Johnson, who came to eminence as a writer and a lexicographer in the 1700s, was correct when he reportedly said, "No one but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," then I can humbly testify to being a blockhead many times over, having spent most of my own life doggedly engaged in practicing a writer's craft, but never enriching myself, a record of unabated obstinacy that stands in hellbent defiance of Dr. Johnson's bold utterance. Expressing oneself through the written word, I have learned, is an exceedingly durable habit that, after solidly establishing itself in one's life, regardless of whether or not it delivers any manifest reward, does not easily lend itself to being broken. I do not remember the moment of clarity when I first knew, absolutely, that I wanted to be a writer. My mother, a sharp-witted Englishwoman with high standards who was raising me, her English-born child, in California as a result of my family moving from the United Kingdom ...

Covid-19 in 2025: Respirator Masks Are Absolutely Necessary in All Public Spaces

With the unrestrained danger of Covid-19 rampant everywhere in 2025, it is beyond doubt that respirator masks, which provide an effective means of avoiding the extreme harm of airborne contagion, are absolutely necessary in all public spaces. Anyone who ventures into any public space without the benefit of a respirator mask is committing a grievous error. Unfortunately, most people shun respirator masks, in addition to shunning all other forms of caution and safety in regard to Covid-19, causing the pandemic to be completely out of control, and resulting in an endless cycle of repeated infections. The unreasoning refusal to do what is urgently needed in our current situation, a refusal prompted by delusion and denial, constitutes a glaring breakdown in human morality. In particular, doctors and nurses who refuse to wear respirator masks are unquestionably guilty of gross negligence, rendering them morally unfit to be employed in any medical setting. Their willful heedlessness is alarmi...

The Human Community Has Fatally Lost Its Balance

A quarter of the way into the 21st century, it is becoming undeniably apparent that we are now speeding toward a final stage of total destruction. A brief examination is enough to easily confirm that the human community has fatally lost its balance. The world of 2025 is increasingly beset by the baleful forces of war, genocide, disease, technology, greed, deceit, corruption, and hypocrisy, with a host of heinous conditions swiftly worsening from one day to the next. Two particular instances of unspeakable evil provide undeniable evidence of our collective descent into a hell of our own making. The first instance is the overtly deliberate spread of airborne contagion that has propelled the current pandemic of Covid-19 since March, 2020, causing at least 27 million people to perish worldwide. The second instance is the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israel since October, 2023, with tens of thousands of helpless civilians being wantonly murdered. The monstrous ...

Five Years of Uncontrolled Covid-19

March, 2025, marks the passing of five years since the World Health Organization declared the pandemic of Covid-19. Throughout that period, general conditions have increasingly grown worse: upwards of 27 million people have perished from Covid-19, fundamental principles of caution and safety have been abandoned, and the collective well-being of mankind has been degraded. As a direct result of heinous policies upheld by corrupt authorities, policies that were willingly embraced by the masses, we have now experienced five years of uncontrolled Covid-19. Five years of an airborne disease being allowed to spread everywhere. Five years of rampant contagion. Five years of mass illness and excess mortality. Five years of dishonesty and denial. Instead of enforcing necessary measures, for as long as needed, to stop the grim progress of Covid-19, our leaders chose to promote a mentality of heedless delusion, summarily proclaiming that the pandemic was over and encouraging citizens to accept Cov...

The Stark Evil of Artificial Intelligence

Among the many evils that have arisen in the 21st century, artificial intelligence (commonly referred to as AI) is undoubtedly one of the worst, displaying a self-evident potential to thoroughly destroy the fundamental integrity of the human community. Unfortunately, AI is quickly becoming an unavoidable factor in the overall framework of everyday life, and, as a heinous result, has begun to stealthily degrade the most definitive elements of our collective mentality. As always with threats to essential values, corporations lead the way in the use of AI, regarding it as a handy means of hugely increasing the already excessive return from their lucrative activities. AI offers corporations the opportunity to summarily rid themselves of their employees, thereby enabling greedy CEOs to expand their private wealth. As AI takes greater hold within the wicked realm of business, countless workers will be deprived of their livelihood. To an alarming degree, the regular output of the media is bei...

The Pandemic of Covid-19 in January 2025: More Disease and More Delusion

Five years into the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, with no prospect of relief in sight, what more is there to say? The following observations concerning 2025 are, for the most part, weary echoes from 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. In January, 2025, it is absolutely certain that, during the coming months, the pandemic of Covid-19 will increasingly worsen. We are, undoubtedly, destined to experience more disease and more delusion. By deliberately allowing Covid-19 to spread without any control, mankind has assented to a future devoid of hope, irrationally choosing to follow a fatal path of destruction that can lead only to a bleak, nightmarish outcome of downfall and doom. The world of 2025 is a world of grim danger, a world in which Covid-19 is wildly thriving in every public space, and also in most private spaces. A world faltering beneath the weight of runaway contagion, repeated infections, mass illness, and excess mortality. A world in which schools are open, stores and shops are ...

Harris and Trump in 2024: A Fraudulent Choice Between Two Brazen Figures of Capitalist Evil

In November, 2024, the general election in the United States, in which Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are pitted against each other, will offer American voters a fraudulent choice between two brazen figures of capitalist evil, both of whom are equally repugnant. A choice that, in terms of fundamental moral principles, is merely an expedient illusion, and not actually a choice at all. 2024 has been a year unlike any other in the repellant history of American politics. On June 27, during a television "debate" held between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Biden performed so clumsily that serious questions were raised, even by his own supporters, in regard to his advanced age and his mental fitness, leading to a host of widespread demands for him to withdraw from his shaky pursuit of a second term in the White House. On July 13, while Biden's condition was still a matter of public controversy, Donald Trump, who was speaking to an outdoor c...

Keir Starmer Is the Man Who Will Destroy What Remains of the United Kingdom

On July 4, 2024, the general election in the United Kingdom had a definitive, but not a particularly surprising, outcome. The Labour Party, headed by Keir Starmer, enjoyed an overwhelming victory, while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (serving only since 2022) and the Conservative Party suffered a crushing defeat, after the party, with a succession of other leaders (David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss), had been holding power since 2010. For the most part, the lopsided outcome of the election was a case of the Conservatives defeating themselves, being brought down by the heavy, monstrous weight of their own brazen corruption, rather than the Labour Party representing a potential change in the actual direction of the British government. In truth, under Keir Starmer, Labour is no less a stronghold of overtly right-wing policies than the Conservative Party. With Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Labour and a lifelong figurehead of British socialism, having been harshly depos...

Covid-19 in 2024: Contagion and Delusion Abounding in Equal Measure

In 2024, the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 relentlessly progresses toward an outcome of ruin for mankind, with contagion and delusion abounding in equal measure. Even among those who imagine themselves to be using a reasonable degree of caution in regard to Covid-19, blithe denial of the harsh truth is common. Nearly everyone is failing to see, and therefore failing to understand, that the human community in which they are living, the human community that they have always taken for granted, completely and carelessly, has fallen into a wretched process of final, inevitable destruction. While our evil leaders heedlessly continue to pursue unsustainable policies of deliberate negligence, and the foolish masses (having recklessly chosen to pretend that Covid-19 no longer poses a danger to their health and well-being) continue to sleepwalk through the empty motions of "normal life," Covid-19 itself continues its heinous advance, showing no signs of ceasing or lessening its formidab...

The Nation of Israel Should Be Abolished

Since October 7, 2023, the nation of Israel has ruthlessly slaughtered tens of thousands of men, women, and children in Gaza. What started as Israel's apparent response to a sudden assault on Israeli citizens by Hamas, an Islamist organization, was soon revealed to be a deliberate, coldblooded, undisguised policy of total genocide by Israel, relentlessly carried out with the unmistakable intention of eradicating the Palestinian people. As the months have grimly passed, Israel's wanton murder of civilians has increased, in full view of the entire world. Day after day, there are reports of helpless Palestinians, completely unable to save themselves from wholesale destruction, being remorselessly killed with weapons supplied to Israel by the United States, the United Kingdom, and other nations, all serving as knowing accomplices to Israel's brazen genocide. Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, with full support from President Biden of the United States, is guilty of mass homici...

In 2024, As Covid-19 Spreads Freely, We Need to Prepare Ourselves for the Coming Downfall of Mankind

The conditions of extreme danger resulting from the pandemic of Covid-19 are worse than ever in the early part of 2024. Denial, delusion, and dishonesty regarding the harm of Covid-19 are now firmly entrenched within the careless, unquestioning mentality of the masses. Immoral policies of overt negligence and mass infection are deliberately promoted by figures of authority. Measures to preserve fundamental safety and lessen instances of contagion are absent from all public spaces, including medical settings. The pandemic of Covid-19 has become a one-way trip to the lowest depths of hell. The decision to allow Covid-19 to spread out of control, a decision made without concern for the enormous amounts of deep suffering that would necessarily ensue, has condemned us to a foreboding likelihood of overwhelming misery. Most people, through their foolish acceptance of that wrongful decision, have recklessly chosen to enable and hasten their own unknowing descent into a collective state of fat...