Category Archives: philosophy

John Lennon 70 Years Old If Not a Day

Saturday would have been 70 this weekend. Mark David Chapman killed the ex-Beatle in front of the Dakota on Manhattan’s Uppper West Side to answer his obssession with JD Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. His latest parole hearing ended with a denial of his freedom. Yoko Ono, John’s […]

Decisions Decisions Decisions

Here’s a quandary posed by Big Al of Pattaya: Please read the entire passage for the correct impact. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who looks as […]

Nihilism 2009

I’m a firm believer that the best course of action is inaction on most occasion and it seems that this belief is sanction by BC, the legendary newspaper comic. The tenet is professed by the master militarist Von Clausewitz in his treatise ON WAR. “If we cast a glance at military history in general, we […]