Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt:    The topic of the day is Faux Pas, or as I used to pronounce it before I had heard someone say it aloud that actually speaks “surrender monkey” Fox paws.   I’m going to start out with the absolute disaster that is the SCOTUS leak because it’s the 1000 lb. elephant that’s shitting ...

Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt:    Pull up a chair, pour something cold, and let’s talk. The topic for the day is propaganda.  Call it that, call it “spin,” call it “deceptive advertising,” call it “shading the truth,” hell, call it “George” for all I care.  It’s something everyone does, at some level or another.  (This is ...

Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt:   We have something different this week, a guest post.   I was going to run something on the recent purchase of Twitter, the advance of free speech that it promises, and all of the rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth by anyone to even marginal left of center, including most of the ...

I am quoted inside Dove Chocolate’s candy wrapper. I think I found the submission invitation just scrolling through on Instagram one day. I smiled and thought, “hey that looks fun, and that would be really cool!” not realistically thinking they would ever actually choose mine. I honestly forgot all about it until I came home ...

  Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, Today I want to discuss character and reputation, among other things.  Pull up a chair, get a drink, and let’s go.   If you look up quotes on the internet about the subject of character and reputation, you’ll find a lot of fairly brilliant and pointed observations on the subject, from some ...

    Roman Reigns owns the crowd.       Thanks to: TheAmbRollEignsGuy

Full sink!  

I tend to speak with a lot of labels attached.  I talk about “Bob, my former student”. “Leslie, my coworker”. The name may not jog the memory of who that person is, but the situation to which they are tied does. In this context, labels are a good thing.   There are contexts, though, where labels are ...

There's no structure under heavens which equals the perfection of the pyramids of Egypt; the most famous emblems of ancient Egypt, to this day the pyramids of Giza continue to confound and seduce visitors and scientists alike.   "The pyramids and temples are among the wonders known since antiquity; they've been much spoken of, and much studied ...

  Cute Baby Donkey 🙂           Thanks to: Funnimals TV