Greetings From Frost Lake!

Everglades Kite - 20 February 2016

16 February 1962

Happy Birthday To...

Guess Who...

Twenty-Three

Happy Birthday, Mom! 

Mother
with
Speed and Judy

Newspeak

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten… The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?"

    1984

~ George Orwell

Citizen Journalism

 – Citizen Journalism

cit•i•zen jour•nal•ismnoun1. the collection, dissemination, and analysis of news and information by the general public, especially by means of the Internet.

What Is “Controversial” About Majority Rule!?

democracy [dih-mok-ruh-see]

noun, (plural: democracies)
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.

Greetings From Frost Lake

Sunrise at Red Rocks Park

Greetings From Frost Lake!

What A Difference A Week Makes

I have one quick question for all of my friends, family, and associates on the right: where is YOUR outrage!?

MINOs vs.ChINOs – There’s Such Balance In Nature!

Oh, my god! I finally get it! You got me! Ha Ha! I know, I’m a little slow to catch-onto the joke, sorry. All of this vitriol and bluster from the religious right that is aimed at Muslims in General is the world’s largest installment of performance art! I TOTALLY get it now! Ha!

Je Ne Suis Pas Français. Je Ne Suis Pas Parisien.

Je Suis Humain!

The slew of hashtags reading “Je suis Parisien” and “Je suis Français,” while perfectly understandable are, in my humble opinion totally missing the point. I propose that the more apropos hashtags for the actions of this week would be “Je suis humain.”

Battle Of The Billionaires

I promise! I really had very nearly talked myself out of writing this missive. Really, I had... but then saw a post on my facebook feed, so obviously untrue - and easily refuted, once again proving the premise of my screed and – BAM! Here it is!

So Sorry To Have Offended You!

Editor's Note: 
Today's post is part teachable moment, part "apology" to the smarmy telemarketer that I believe I might have offended a moment ago...

Enjoy.

Here's a new one – well, new to me at least... I'm sitting in my office, working on my materials for a meeting Monday night when someone, calling from a blocked number and speaking in some variant of English that I had encountered before, calls to tell me that I need to "provide myself with any pen and handy paper to take down a number."

Greetings From Frost Lake

Winter is on its way! 

Don Bergquist - November 01, 2015 - Lakewood, Colorado, USA