A decade is defined as a period of exactly ten years. The year 1 B.C. was immediately followed by the year 1 A.D. without a year zero in between. Hence, the first decade A.D. necessarily ran from 1 A.D. until and including 10 A.D. It follows that the second decade A.D. commenced with 11 A.D. and ran until and including 20 A.D. …
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Strictly Speaking
By Cyberquill • 12/24/2009 • 9 CommentsIdeally, either all of the statements in a given composition should be prefaced as worth mentioning, or–even more ideally (yes, more ideally is possible in a more perfect Union)–none of them; for to haphazardly select isolated text fragments and tout them as worthy of disclosure not only looks frightfully butterfingered on the page, but ambiguous phrasing of any kind is liable to occasion unanticipated and potentially precarious reactions in compulsive literalists. …
The Dark Matter of the Psychic Universe
By Cyberquill • 12/19/2009 • 6 CommentsSomeone once referred to fathers as the dark matter of our psychic universe. The dark matter of my mine passed away exactly 10 years ago today. Death came suddenly. It was a Sunday. Und der Herrgott weiss immer warum. …
Be Fruitful, Multiply, and Join the Dinosaurs
By Cyberquill • 12/13/2009 • 12 CommentsAs the old saying goes, if you don’t change course, you’ll end up exactly where you’re headed. No way mankind will survive yet another tripling or even a doubling of its population, but that’s exactly where we’re headed. And the funny thing is, everybody knows it. It’s like staring at a category 5000 hurricane that’s coming right at you and hoping it’ll miraculously swerve left or right before blasting you and your town up into the stratosphere. …
Badged Apples
By Cyberquill • 12/12/2009 • 2 CommentsWe all know there are bad apples in every lot, so there’s no need to expand upon this threadbare aspect of pomology. A certain percentage of spoiled fruitage notwithstanding, many folks seem to loathe badged apples altogether. They just despise the police as an institution. One gets the impression that if it were for them, law enforcement ought to be abolished wholesale, and, thus emancipated of the oppressor’s yoke, in short order all of humanity would peaceably assemble around a giant campfire and spend the remainder of eternity roasting marshmallows and chanting James Taylor tunes on loop. …
My Civil Right to Autosexual Marriage
By Cyberquill • 12/05/2009 • 2 CommentsIf I wanted to marry myself and applied for a marriage license, chances are that every license-issuing magistrate on the planet would politely but firmly instruct me to take a hike. But why? More importantly, why should my request be turned down? What could possibly be wrong with entering into the sacred bonds of matrimony with the person I love, honor, and cherish above all others? …
Thou Shalt Purchase Premium Broadway Tickets
By Cyberquill • 12/02/2009 • 4 CommentsI’m no economist, but I sometimes do wonder what kind of theory of economics a person subscribes to that impels them to use a certain terminology in their reportage. Last time I checked, the United States was a free market economy. Is such a system God’s gift to mankind? Probably not quite, as evidenced by the current casino-capitalism-induced fiscal Armageddon. …
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