Brown Motion

It sounds like I am on my last leg ... as in famous or infamous last words... yet many a moron takes the microphone to start thanking all the yokels they have ever met and their barbie collections when put in the spotlight. Oscars and Grammys which are a uniquely American phenom are testament. What is the point of all that thanking? Rich people publicly thanking other rich people for rubbing when it itches is hardly etiquette or manners. Anyway what I want to do is think of serious items that need thanking - 1. Lets start with daybreak - I want to thank the SUN for showing up each morning without fail. How about that? How many of us clumsies can make such a promise? Regardless of man made holidays and other mumbo this jumbo bulb never fails. Except when its total lights out - and some asteroid escapes NASA's tracking and simply slams us all out of existence. Then who is going to wake up to see it anyway? 2. I want to thank the rivers that continue to provide life sustai...

Most humans will spend inordinate time defining success and finding its true meaning. Newsflash - all humans the second they are born are in a dead end job. Everyone dies. No two ways about it. Some die peacefully while others die a gruesome or somewhat unpleasant death but in the end there is just that - the end. You cannot be deader than dead. Ask any deadee. I am dead serious. So then what of the deadee? Can he or she define what it was like before he died? Not really since there is a paradox for those that are still around. If you are dead there is no more backward and forward looking statements to be made. That is it. You are simply DEAD. Deadly idea I know - but then again no different than finding Moksha. Buddha had something to say about it -he came up with that invention. Attaining one that is. You simply cannot buy moksha at a grocer or street corner (the Colombian cartels might beg to differ), or a post office - its worse than a good score on a CAT or GRE ...

As words in the English vocab go here is a rather innocuous one. DRONE. We all have someone in memory from our yesteryears that had the tendency to drone on. As in narrate or lecture in a boring dull manner. Aunts, uncles, professors or grand someone or the other. Yet this is nothing compared to the resurgence of this dull sounder. Today the US military uses Drones which are an unmanned spy device across its campaigns or theaters (As they are romantically referred to). So much so that home based Do It Yourselfers or is it Yourselvers have also cooked up some to spy on their neighbors et al. There seems to be a movement afoot to regulate the use of drones by those that wish to sun bathe naked in their yards and not have a buzzing camera go over head and end up on the local newspaper front page. Perhaps some such device rankled the Duchess of something or the other the other day. Alternative use of the word refers to a male honey bee - some body whose sole purpose is to procrea...

Apart from the obvious reference to your lat long or geographic position that defines where you are located i.e. a human creation called State - as in 'I am in New York' or 'I am in Ontario' or 'I am in Karnataka; there are other ways to describe state. It could be your physical state that describes your anatomical status. I have lost a limb and am bleeding or I just ate 19 crabs in an awesome sauce and am feeling full or I have a bad case of diarrhea. Then there is the spiritual state where one can be experiencing a feeling of simply being happy - either induced artifically or through strenuous practice involving meditation and / or accompanied by strange body postures. So now that we have those mundane aspects of State out of the way lets focus on this artifically created television show called 'State of the Union'. This is an annual ratings miracle much like the superbowl when Americans turn on an old invention to watch their chief executive prov...

It is quite weird to read news about alleged wrongdoers - kidnappers, shooters, molesters, rapists, terrorists, politicians, sportstars, clergy etc. Allegedly has become cliche - and I am not just alleging. News media also seem confused since the headline is about an alleged shooter but by the time you read the story underneath - the alleged perp (or perpetrator which is not an allegement but a fact) is definitively the wrongdoer and is declared dead. So why allege when simply calling him the shooter would do? Who's ass are these weak reporters trying to protect? Even in a situation as plain as daylight the commentary is about the alleged gunman. What is this nonsense? Then there are moronic tales of vigils being held - what are these events? Are they in cahoots with the candles lobby? In a country where power outages are typically restricted to large scale sports events the candle makers have a tough time peddling their crop. Enter the vigils. Any dimwit with no job is ...