....until it is observed by a consciousness that fixes it to one potential state. This is what science has been telling us, coming up on a century now, is happening at the quantum level where particles carry superpositions (e.g. existing in two different places at the same “time”) that are eliminated yielding a single position… Continue reading The Quantum Universe is Probabilities
Author: H.D.
House of Cards Comes Crashing Down
Such a Rich Soup
There is unexpectedly a lot to be gleaned from this short amateur biography. If you just persevere past the initial scenes of her making a cake with the finesse of a slaughter-house butcher, you'll make your way to her incongruous youth and an assortment of creepy characters reminiscing about her lascivious role in a famous… Continue reading Such a Rich Soup
Ways of Knowing the Other
A Man Can Only Glass Half Full for so Long
I've been trying very hard to focus more on the aspirational aspects of the human experience and less on those that instigate disdain and scorn. Unfortunately my attention can no longer discern the former amid the loud shrill cry of the latter. It emanates from everywhere these days and each jarring instance is replicated through… Continue reading A Man Can Only Glass Half Full for so Long
Divine Intervention in Desktop Management
Ever since I began my life behind a desk as a junior attorney, I have been trying to figure out how to maintain order among the different papers that need to be readily accessible on my desk. I devised all sorts of methodologies of varying levels of complexity using all kinds of stationary and never… Continue reading Divine Intervention in Desktop Management
Clothing your Camera
Few people today carry their phones naked. Many more, myself among them, go out in public with their cameras swinging from their necks or slung over their shoulders in the buff. There was a time when that was an intentional choice. Cameras came with protective cases and were not "sold separately". Today, on the other… Continue reading Clothing your Camera
The Third Possibility is the Truth
We are the creation of a high powered intelligence but not of the highest. What we have received as message and what we find as evidence of that message's truth are consistent and coherent but with a lot of elbow grease and torture. It's very good writing but it's not perfect. If it were the… Continue reading The Third Possibility is the Truth
Putin Speaking at a Bookstore Near You (Open to Public)
Imagine if you were a world leader who had to meet with Putin and act polite and comport yourself diplomatically when you know that he has had civilians assassinated because they threatened his personal finances or his grip on power and he knows you know though he officially denies any involvement. "Oh what a pleasure… Continue reading Putin Speaking at a Bookstore Near You (Open to Public)
Trump the Trojan
© Arend van Dam The Russian contribution to the election of Señor Drumpf and the bright signs of collusion with his campaign cemented early on the majority's perspective on the illegitimacy of his administration. Add to this his amorality and opportunism, the baleful stench emanating from his deficient entourage, the brazen lies cascading from him… Continue reading Trump the Trojan









