Reaction to Random Catalysts

What makes the order of the state or society more complicated than what it needs to be is when civic law is not enforced or moral/spiritual law is imposed heavily as though it is the state's business how people lead their private lives. Laws go unenforced when the bureaucratic government diverts too... Sign in to see full entry.

I still like to read instructions, after all these years, rather than decipher icons. Trying to understand all the icons was perhaps the biggest challenge for me in becoming adept at the computer. But icons do not only appear on the computer, but also upon technological equipment. When I first saw... Sign in to see full entry.

Have I lived in a choice residence for Halloween trick-or-treaters? Or not? Over the past dozen years, I do not think I have treated more than a dozen in any one year. Although Halloween is becoming more popular in some ways, it is also transforming. It is becoming bigger among adults. In fact, the... Sign in to see full entry.

Both Presidential candidates acted classy in response to Sandy. That is, they suspended their campaigns temporarily out of respect for the hard-hit people on the Jersey shore in the face of the major hurricane/storm. Sign in to see full entry.

The weathermen of my upbringing--in the upper Great Plains--used different terminology than what I hear in the Pacific Northwest. I never completely adapted. I still think of rain as rain, or, if it is light, sprinkling. Occasionally, but very occasionally where I grew up, a hard rain was a downpour... Sign in to see full entry.

A London venue has been slated for one game in the National Football League for several years now. But I don't know of anyone who has been excited by it. The games pit two teams together who first of all have to battle out of the lethargy of jet lag, and for the most part it shows. Stolen away... Sign in to see full entry.

Today marked a coworker's birthday. I ribbed him about his older age, but he had a great come back: "My Bucs beat up on your Vikings." Depending on how much we identify with our favorite teams, that team in a sense fights our battles. A favorite team triumphs for a person, and gives him a lift after... Sign in to see full entry.

Going online helped me move ahead on my ongoing translation project this morning. I was going through my latest translation of a Johan Selnes poem and came across a word that momentarily stumped me, "Taborstinden." I looked through all of my Norwegian-English/English-Norwegian dictionaries, but... Sign in to see full entry.

Joe Biden had a piece to say in Dinesh D'Souza's Obama's America: 2016, which I saw again on a Netflix DVD. He was rebuking an expose' article on Barack Obama in Forbes Magazine, written by Dinesh D'Souza. Biden said that Obama was the brightest of minds in three generations of political leadership.... Sign in to see full entry.

For coffee and fellowship, I met with a more recent attendee of my church. He is knowledgeable about apologetics and church history. He took an interest in my writing, because he is a writer, too. Primarily, he writes about the church and spiritual movements. He and his wife self-publish their... Sign in to see full entry.