I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

There's a great universe just next door.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.