Reflections on a world with too much spying

Now when you pick a pawpaw Or a prickly pear And you prick a raw paw Next time beware                                             --Baloo I'd tell you about the guy I call Mowgli but most of you wouldn't understand (yet) what it is I'm saying. Others who might or might not will of course try to do something awful to him to discourage me using my first amendment to address grievances with not only the government and the godawful mainstream political parties, but also old money, Vladimir Putin, Rudy Giuliani, Drump, Netanyahu, and so many more. Suffice it to say he is at the same time one of the sweetest human beings I've ever met (and yet can be as catty as the DGSE when treated badly) and so delusional that I'm not sure that "batshit crazy" does him justice. Beautiful, crazy and yet somehow survives the heat, COVID, etc., on the streets and jails of Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. I must also, before continuing on into the main course which is explaining wh

Can people really tell the difference? Can you tell hot air from a cool breeze? In college there was a guy who used a pseudonym because of “them.” He was an avid Jack Chick Publishing reader. The pseudonym was D. Monte. He introduced my roomie / fellow theater major to Jack Chick. Ultimately I found the notion that pretty much anything that was NOT (this was Chick’s world view) King James Bible version only non-denominational Protestant and very, very anti-Communist, anti-Jew, anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic, anti-atheist and also general anti-fun (dancing would most certainly set him off as he hated any non-religious music) to be preposterous. Personally it was his contention that Dungeons & Dragons (and rock music) brought about actual demons, spells, etc that was so preposterous I couldn’t take much else what he pushed seriously. Mostly. He had a couple of anti-Catholic books for example. One about the alleged not much discussed history of Martin Luther and what he actually found vi