Recent Comments

1. 2 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   “The enemy within” as well as “the enemy of the people”. I’m looking for heavy winter clothes for when I’m sent to the Greenland Gulag.

2. 5 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Despite the influx of yankees (like my family) and the occasional forward-thinking politicians like Gov Leroy Collins, Florida was still a very much Southern state when I was in school in the 1960s. So there was never any official recognition of Lincoln’s birthday, even in the private (Catholic) school I attended.

3. 11 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   And BIRDS AREN’T REAL!

4. 11 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Jimmy Buffett said/sang “Bubbles up”

5. 11 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   About 30 years ago there was a TV show I really liked (which was, of course, cancelled after one season) called Earth 2. I’ve always remembered one line that, although spoken about another planet, I believe may be relevant on this Earth:

   “We were perhaps foolish to think ourselves the only intelligent species on this planet.”

6. 12 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   An Austrian physicist told a continuing-education class I took that many physicists have determined that “time is the thing that can be measured by clocks.”

7. 12 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Not on this planet, as we currently understand other species’ awareness. (I’m not contending that any other species “thinks” about anything beyond their immediate environment – I don’t believe they do – I’m just leaving open the possibility of who knows what’s going on in those giant whale brains.)

   As to other planets, the jury’s still out and may always be as far as we know.

8. 17 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   “If the King James was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.”

9. 17 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   All dogs and humans as well.

10. 17 days ago on Arlo and Janis

    Your dog wants steak.