Co-Location of Universes: Part 1

“At work, I’m Chief Magistrate, with a staff and a modicum of respect. At home, I’m the guy who takes out the garbage.”

– Edward Good
Author, Community Organizer

News from the frontiers of science: Two or more universes might actually

Returning Decorum to Discourse

The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins writes in his interview with Eric Schmidt that the Google CEO “predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.”

People have begun to say things

Tearing Ourselves Apart

Disintegrate
Definition:

1. To separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; to break up, deteriorate.
2. To decay.
3. To reduce to particles, fragments or parts, break up or destroy the cohesion of.

We have reached a critical point in our cultural evolution where it is standard practice to commit “crimes of the

The Authentic Guest

Visiting a professor of Tai Chi, hoping not to break some ancient Taiwanese taboo, I decided to apologize in advance for any “ugly American” idiocy over lunch.  “Excuse me Master, I want to be a good guest, and I’m very aware of just how foreign I might seem – all white hair, blue eyes and Yankee-ness.  Aside from being from Mars, would you please tell me if I’m doing something off base and impolite?”

He lingered for a moment, contemplating

The Uses of Not

“Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub. It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a pot. Where the pot’s not; is where it’s useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; the space inside makes “room” for you. Therefore the profit in what is; lies in the use of what is not.”

from the Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu
Translation by Gia-Fu Feng, Taoist Priest