So, you’re Putin and there’s a faction of those surrounding you who keep, carefully, suggesting you might resume selling gas to Europe to make money. Money is nice. Big pipelines are hefty investments. Presuming internal pressure of this sort is possible in the case of a dictator like Putin, and…

UPDATE SEPT 2022 — quickly, just wanted to add someone wonderful from WealthSimple actually got in touch with me recently, to apologize for the experience related below. Just because someone found this post! How amazing is that? She let me know the approach taken with me wasn’t compatible with their…

Watching Could Hungary get Kicked Out of the EU this morning, I once again felt like an alien. PROPOSITION Humans are the product of an evolutionary process that rewards power (as one strategy, at least) with biological success. …

Welcome to my world. The surfaced hunk published in 2000s through 2015 by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy. I’m getting it out there again to warm up for rebooting the role of fiction making in life from whence it sprang. So I can use it to process the world around me again as I did with the main preoccupations of the Saga, in my younger years. And maybe find the kindred spirits to reality skim with, again, as I did then.

Kicking Russia out of the UN Human Rights Council When our instincts are yelling “crime is crime call the police”, it’s hard to accept there’s no direct way to do this when the criminal is a nation state — or, at least, its leadership. I nonetheless enjoyed a “YES!” moment…

In my days as a traditionally published author, I ramped up my impulse to share my universe with care packages sent to people and places that touched a chord. I haven’t done it in years. But this week I was delighted to experience the impulse again. It doesn’t matter if…

Let it be true! Woke this morning to teasers on Youtube of a possible cease fire in Ukraine (1). Please, let it be true. How anyone can negotiate with others with the memory of murdered children and bombed hospitals fresh in their minds, I can’t imagine. …

On FOMO and FUD My plan was to dollar cost average (DCA) into my favorite cryptos and crypto businesses. I’d done the FOMO(1) thing back in the November of 2021 when it looked like Bitcoin was on a climb that wouldn’t stop, and Plan B’s case (3) for it hitting…

While nothing trumps the horror Ukrainians have and are suffering due to Putin’s invasion, I’ve always had a soft spot for decent people on the wrong side of bad sh*t who make a choice to not be part of it. Maybe because it strikes a chord of universal human values. …