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You cannot hate the medical, hospital, insurance, and pharmaceutical complex enough.
I’m so tired of it all....
Western Society Has Changed
Going all the way back to when I was a kid, the thing I remember most through all those years of growing up, through adolescence and young adulthood, into my 30s, 40s, and even my 50s, was that my life was always filled with a sense of optimism. That held true right up until about…...
Elon Musk: First Trillionaire, Biggest Target
I loathe stupid people and fucktards. So I knew the news was coming, but I saw it today while scrolling through Elon Musk’s platform X. Everyone moaning about his trillionaire status is posting there—how ironic is that? I figured I’d do a post. It’s Sunday, so it’d be members-only, paywalled. I scrolled down and something…...
My Workaholic Wife
I’ll get to the theme of this post in due time, but first I wanted to lay out my evolving thoughts on how I think, work, and write. In my last post I touched on this sun-up-to-sundown way of living. It doesn’t mean you can’t stay up and party some nights. It’s simply your baseline.…...
Unique Political Commentary—4 Issues
I don’t do it often, but now and then, a few issues pop up in the political sphere, and my takes are always different from all the bleating sheep out there—who follow the news only to know what to “think” and regurgitate. Today’s subjects are: Here we go. But first, quick admin note. Grok 4.3…...
Meat and Testosterone
I have seriously let myself go over months. I knew I was doing it, knew it would change and revert eventually, but was at the same time in a state of complacency as I was working through the phenomenon of being bored out of my skin about everything. I mentioned politics in my last post,…...
The Choreography of the State of the Union Address
This will be short, but because it’s Saturday when I got off my ass, that means it’s for paying members. Monday through Friday, open and public. Saturday and Sunday, paying members only. No planning. Just random. Choreography is the theme....
Highlights From My Road Trip
Blogging Has Turned for Me Blogging has turned for me from something that was once a core part of my life—and this is rather serious and important to me, because I’ve been doing it for now 22 or 23 years, and I was very productive at it for a long time. I mean, I maintained…...
Startling Thoughts on Antibiotics
Greetings and Belated Thanksgiving Well-Wishes I hope all of you spent quality time with your loved ones—friends and family alike. And I hope you scored some great deals out and about on Friday if you’re into that traditional shopping frenzy. Just one more word about Thanksgiving: In some families, it’s tradition right before the feast…...
Paper Shuffle Chase
The Endless Bureaucratic Bullshit: Papers, Stamps, and Signatures Everywhere You Turn Humans have this sick obsession with papers and forms and stamps and signatures, and it seems to be never-ending. It’s everywhere—fucking everywhere around the world, at least in the Western world, and I live in Asia now where it’s even more pronounced, like a…...
Thailand Visa Woes and Fantastic Girl
I’ve got two items to put out today on this fine Sunday—unrelated in some ways, but loosely connected if you squint. The first is about this past week, which marked my sixth time on the so-called retirement visa here in Thailand. My first one was back in 2020, so that’s the initial year plus four…...
Outsized Israel
I start this post with a quick personal update: My gal is finally on her way back in the van after being gone for a month. She’s been tending to her house, her massive fruit tree orchard, family stuff, and the whole neighborhood drama. I’m genuinely stoked about it—beats solo life in Pattaya, Thailand, any…...
BEEFY CALVES THAT CHICKS LOVE (and marriage and adoption)
As I posted in my last article, I’m changing things up. From here on out, unless I have something particularly big to say, every post is going to follow a general format: something like three to five sections covering different stuff I want to talk about. And I mean anything—could be about food, it could…...
I Have Good Jeans and So Does My Girlfriend
If you don’t get it, I can’t help you. That’s a pic of my Thai girlfriend, Far’s, denim cutoffs she wore yesterday—on the sofa this morning. I have no idea why they were just lying there on the sofa this morning. Honest. If you really don’t know, the left went apeshit (again…mostly ugly, fat, unfuckable…...
I Missed One: USA Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
Here’s a strange one for you that just recently blipped onto my radar, and it amounts to a goddamn oversight on my part that I’ll explain below. I believe it was in the late 1970s, and I was sitting in church—actually, a fundamentalist Baptist one, Grace Baptist Church in Reno, Nevada. The pastor, Phil Rhodes,…...
A Quick International Trip and Reflections on the State of the World
Yeah, okay, I’ve been remiss and downright derelict in tending to my membership for this blog lately, and I do have an excuse. About ten days ago, I got this phone call. Normally, I ignore anything not in my contacts list, but modern phones are smart enough to flag the origin, and this one was…...
The Paradox of Competitive Eating: Why Massive Meals Don’t Always Mean Massive Waistlines
In the world of viral food challenges, few sights are as mesmerizing—and perplexing—as competitive eaters like Randy Santel and his fiancée Katina DeJarnett (aka Katina Eats Kilos) demolishing gargantuan portions. Picture this: Randy scarfing down a 10-pound burger stack or Katina powering through kilos of ramen in under 30 minutes. These feats rack up thousands…...
The Sugar Diet Wars
I only caught wind of this nonsense a day or two ago, and my immediate reaction was a hard eye-roll. I don’t know Cole Robinson, the so-called Snake Diet guy, all that well. I skimmed some of his stuff way back when, and now I see he’s tangled up in this latest fad. Frankly, it’s…...
The Sugar Diet Part Trois — Easier, More Effective, and Faster Than ALL Low-Carb?
As I wrote in my last missive, of all the words Low-Carbers use, the most common by far is “stalled.” Being “stalled” can last years…decades, even. This, a comment on my last post: Great stuff, Richard. I’ve been a pretty strict carnivore for a number of years — and wondering why I remain 20 pounds…...
Interview: Richard Nikoley Sounds Off on Today’s Hottest Political Issues
In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, I sat down (virtually) with Richard Nikoley, the unfiltered voice behind Free The Animal and X’s @rnikoley, to tackle some of the biggest political stories dominating the news cycle in June 2025. Think of this as a Joe Rogan-style grilling, where Richard brings his no-nonsense, liberty-loving perspective to the table. From…...