Category Archives: paranoia

Modern Servitude

Posted on September 27, 2017 by cdsmiller17

A Slave by Any Other Name…   I usually don’t write about social issues, at least. not directly. But a recent line of thinking has made me ponder: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Most people coming to … Continue reading →

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A Question of Evil

Posted on September 19, 2017 by cdsmiller17

This article was prompted by a Richard Rohr Meditation that I got in my inbox this morning. In it, he discusses how systemic evil is in life. Evil only succeeds by disguising itself as good. Dom Hélder Câmara (1909-1999) was … Continue reading →

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Why Speed?

Posted on September 12, 2017 by cdsmiller17

Maximum I have often remarked, while driving in our car, that most other drivers seem to consider the speed limit a ‘minimum’, always traveling at least 10 kilometers per hour over it. In fact, there seems to be an ‘unwritten’ … Continue reading →

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Uncivil War

Posted on August 16, 2017 by cdsmiller17

The tiki torch parade on the eve of the Charlottesville, Virginia protest march was nothing short of a visual provocation. There can be no other explanation. The organizers knew that it would inflame the “Alt” Left and bring out an … Continue reading →

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Is this Normal Behaviour?

Posted on July 19, 2017 by cdsmiller17

In early 1978, I met the woman who would later that year become my second wife, and her two-year old daughter. The details are unimportant, but the relationship that I split up is the point of this story. Background Sue … Continue reading →

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Star Wars: Oz in Space?

Posted on April 19, 2017 by cdsmiller17

I saw a gif the other day on Facebook which showed a short clip of Han, Chewy, Leia and C3PO in the woods (obviously from The Empire Strikes Back), followed by a shot of the four main characters from The … Continue reading →

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Duck Soup

Posted on February 17, 2017 by cdsmiller17

…and quackers.

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Is There Anything New Under the Sun?

Posted on January 23, 2017 by cdsmiller17

Bert and Ernie After watching Sesame Street for years with my children, you can imagine my surprise when I watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the first time: I heard the names, Bert and Ernie, spoken in the same sentence, … Continue reading →

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Walk-ins: do they exist?

Posted on January 16, 2017 by cdsmiller17

Angel on My Shoulder   Yesterday, I watched a very old movie (1946) which involved a gangster getting a second chance at life, after he was shot dead by his partner. The devil, played by Claude Rains, had made Eddie … Continue reading →

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Conspiracy!

Posted on December 12, 2016 by cdsmiller17

Do you want to know a secret? We are all in this together, but due to cultural and biological programming, we believe that we stand alone against the World. If you step outside your genetically-determined ‘box’ you will see that … Continue reading →

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