I write this high. Not on synthetically manufactured drugs from a pharmaceutical lab, nor those of dubious origins (most likely cooked up in the kitchen of a trailer somewhere within the backwoods of our great nation). No, I am high on a natural combination of chemicals that I don’t pretend to understand. Though the exact…
Category: Essays
A Fortuitous Happenstance
…yes, but did it make a sound? I’m about to admit to a flaw in my character. I love to be right. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out, but that’s ok. It keeps me humble. Meanwhile, last night I was having an argument with a science type, a brilliant and genuinely funny, science type. …
Sir Francis Bacon: Lady Killer and Father of the Scientific Method
“The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of…