If you were paying attention to today’s news, Jeb Bush’s response to a question about who his favorite Marvel superhero was – made quite the stir. What caused the commotion was not his comment about liking Batman, but came from when he tried to...
I know that I’m being pretty harsh on you humans, but my whole point in this blog is to show that you may not be as rational as you think you are. Why would I do such a thing? It all boils down to your treatement of the environment; if you don’t treat...
I need a short name for what is lacking; I call it the ecological conscience. Ecology is the science of communities, and the ecological conscience is therefore the ethics of community life. I will define it further in terms of four case histories, which I think show...
Although I was highly offended by Rodney Dangerfield’s one-liner in Caddyshack – Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. – I just think this cartoon by Scott Hilburn is hilarious…don’t you? To make it match the other two...
“This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking...
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” Winston Churchill Introduction To This Blog & Why A Fish’s Perspective Welcome to The Vent, where I, Cyprinid Cynicalis, will express my...