Category: censored opinions
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Clean Inbox? Remember that Emails Compound — A Formula
If you want a clean inbox, you need to remember that emails compound. Which is why I whipped up this bogus formula for you to keep in mind in your quest to get a clean inbox: EVERY EMAIL SENT GENERATES ONE HALF EMAIL RECEIVED AND, IF RESPONDED TO, GENERATES ANOTHER ONE HALF FOR “T” NUMBER OF…
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McCluhan and the Message of Mediums
When I was ten, they took me to my first art museum. By “they” I don’t mean the inevitable ethereal “they” like “they say cell phones cause cancer now.” I mean my teachers spent one of the many field trips sprinkled throughout my elementary school career driving us all to an art museum thirty minutes…
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Nonconformity and the Loneliness of its Creed
Socrates taught me at a very young age, “Know thyself,” but he gave me no hint of a warning for the consequences of such a creed of nonconformity both in my personal life and in my career. For the record, I don’t mean to make myself sound more well-read than I was in my youth:…
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Do American Christian Missionaries Support the Trump Muslim Ban?
For years, evangelical churches at large have considered the missionary the cherry on top of Sunday. At conferences and weeks of church camp they hold three-step altar calls. Step one, be baptized. Step two, be re-baptized, whatever that means. Step three, enlist in FTVM — Full Time Vocational Ministry. Regarding step three, there’s this hierarchy. First…
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Catcall — Never Thought I’d Say this but Playboy and I Actually AGREE on Something
Okay, now I KNOW the world is ending. Playboy and I actually agree on whether or not a man should catcall a woman. FULL DISCLOSURE: Other than this particular infographic, I haven’t interacted with anything Playboy has put out since my good friends helped me kick a pornography addiction when I was a senior in highschool (class of 2005),…
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Schaubert’s Law of Conspiracies
It seems presumptuous to title a law about conspiracies and conspiracy theories after oneself and yet it is the nature of these sorts of laws tend to end up titled after the last names of their authors anyways, so the title’s more of a resignation to convention than an outgrowth of arrogance or pretense. Obviously if this syllogism exists…
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The Best Amateur Website Still Uses Canva
Featured Tool: Click here to access the main tool that the best amateur websites use. Awhile back when I went cruising around for advice on my site, I found the best amateur website still using the same service that all of these other amateur websites used. I hesitate to mention it because I don’t want to…
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would…
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The Best Writers Blog on How to Write Better
Some of the best writers out there blog on how to write better. Maybe not often, but certainly they all tend to have their own bits of advice scattered throughout the internet. I’ve taken the liberty of making another one of my epic lists in order to guide you to the bests blogs on how…
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yoked to toil
“He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. He must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquisitiveness and the betrayal in embezzling his own life. He must say farewell to manual…
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Letters to a Young Poet …via Email
The following letters to a young poet grew out of emails sent to a poet. He had recently sent me a three-stanza poem asking for critique. I also, by the end, quote from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: ••• [Young Poet,] There are some really, really good lines in here and obviously the subject matter is hard…
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Kindle Faults :: 10 Things My Kindle Can’t Do
There are 10 things my Kindle can’t do. These Kindle faults show the power of preferring a standard paperback: Exist without a Power Source – Unfortunately, somebody bought out Nicolae Tesla’s patents. As is, we have no Tesla Coils to transmit electricity to our Kindle through midair. I’ve had two separate occasions where I ran out…