SALMAGUNDI (AUGUST 2025)

Not all relationships are ones of your choosing. They but co-relate, like “winning” and “losing.” Not all you trust is as you’d prefer. It can be to trust just “things are as they are.” No thinking so clouded, no action so muddy, as democracy and “the State is my buddy.” So guide as you will or let run its course. The force behind all, it is always force. (2025-07-15)

 

“The right side of history” is creationism for events. (2025-07-01)

 

For some, speculation is an idle activity. For some, speculation is THE idol activity. (2025-06-27)

 

If a person stands to profit or suffer, they cannot be trusted to be objective. What is more, an outsider has a rare and precious viewpoint. Except for voting. That’s “democracy,” you see. (2025-06-21)

 

“Government should be run like a business.” You mean, like a for-profit prison abattoir? (2025-06-18)

 

Of you my good thoughts will remain as before if I turn away and add not one more. (2025-06-17)

 

Anagrams never lie: a renaming reveals. (2025-04-22)

 

If you want to join the majority who all want to say the same line, that I am not happy, or not really happy, or not happy all of the time, you’d best stop your talking and start yourself walking and I hope you have no deadline. For you’ll have to be walking for many a day to arrive at the end of that line. (2025-04-17)