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Universe Selectors, Incorporated Episode 1

“Thank you for contacting Universe Selectors Incorporated.  In which Universe would you like to be deposited in this endless moment?” Horace blinked.  “Um… what?” “We currently have access to just over seven hundred thirty-seven nonillion possible universes,...

A Slap in The Face

Fred’s Facebook March 28, 2022 4:49 PM I recognize that much of what I'm about to write (or, if you’re listening to the podcast, say) is due to seeing the world through the lens of clinical depression.  I see the sadder parts of the world with greater clarity,...

Envisioning a Future That Allows Us to Travel to The Past

I need to begin this evening with a gargantuan disclaimer.  I’m not a scientist of any sort.  I’m not an astronomer, in particular.  I’m certainly not a mathematician.  I have no expertise of any kind in what I’m discussing tonight.  (If I’m...

One Planet, One People… Please? 2022

Carl Sagan warned us about Mutually Assured Destruction 40 years ago.  If we do survive a nuclear war, the condition of our planet will be such that any life afterward will be miserable.  We humans have spent trillions of dollars in an effort to learn to...

Is Government The Problem or The Solution?

Government is the source of more problems than I can count.  If you want to do something, you almost certainly need a license of some sort.  If you live here, they’re going to take your money in the form of taxes.  If you want to have a voice anyone in...

Cameras In The Classroom

Camera in a Classroom Iowa Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force all public-school classrooms to have a camera that would livestream classes which parents and guardians could view online.  Under the bill, school staff who did not keep...

Preserving Liberty

American Flag My first idea was to call this episode “Preserving Democracy.”  The moment, however, that I refer to our system of government as a democracy, someone will shout, “We’re not a democracy; we’re a republic,” and we’re already wasting time on...

My Life Now

Speedy Shine and Me It is probably unwise to do this episode because it’s likely to cost me some of the Patreon support that has helped me to get to the life I have always wanted.  Sometimes when someone thinks I’m doing all right, they stop supporting me because...

The Utopia We Could Create: One Dear Land

“No longer do we see slum conditions in any part of our country.  Landlords vie with each other to offer the finest affordable housing to prospective tenants, knowing that, thanks to their basic incomes, they will be able to pay the rent regularly. ...

The Front Porch

I feel like I'm one of those hosts who annoy me during Pledge Week on PBS. I'm watching something I really enjoy, on a station devoid of the commercials that can destroy any work of Art, and in they come with their tote bags and coffee mugs trying to get me to send...

Thinking About People…

People are, of course, the point of existence.  What happens to them is important.  We love.  We fear and fight and fuck things up.  We build extraordinary lives and worlds and monuments and homes.  We destroy them even more quickly when we...

The New Neighbors Episode 3 “It’s just too lonely.  You can’t begin to conceive of the depths of isolation that I must endure.” It was a voice.  No one had ever heard anything like it before.  It came from every device on the planet.  It...

The New Neighbors Part 2

April 5 The Oval Office 2:23 AM We sat in a dark silence.  We were essentially drifting through space.  We were all smaller than we had been a moment ago.  In the absolute darkness, the Milky Way became visible in all its splendor and mystery.  The...

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One Planet, One People… Please? 2022

Carl Sagan warned us about Mutually Assured Destruction 40 years ago.  If we do survive a nuclear war, the condition of our planet will be such that any life afterward will be miserable.  We humans have spent trillions of dollars in an effort to learn to...

Is Government The Problem or The Solution?

Government is the source of more problems than I can count.  If you want to do something, you almost certainly need a license of some sort.  If you live here, they’re going to take your money in the form of taxes.  If you want to have a voice anyone in...

Cameras In The Classroom

Camera in a Classroom Iowa Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force all public-school classrooms to have a camera that would livestream classes which parents and guardians could view online.  Under the bill, school staff who did not keep...

Synchronicity IV: In the Shadows of the Moon

“Well, anyway, didja see Madeline t’night?
“No. Why? Isn’t she home with you?”
“Hell, no. I swear to God I oughta leave her. You know that? I mean, what I oughta do, I oughta just pack up my goddam bags -”
“All right, all right,” the sergeant said. “Calm down. Willya do that for me? Will ya just calm down a second?”
“Christ. I’m calm. I’m all right. I dunno.”
“Ya know what I bet?” He jangled his glass in front of the girl’s face and put his index finger inside, indicating he wanted another drink. “What I bet, seriously now, I’d give ya a hundred to one here,” the girl took the glass from his hand, “I bet she got all social with the Harrisons. That’s what I think. I’d give ya a hundred a one they all went some place or other. They’re probably at some club on ‘O’ Street bein’ Socialites or somethin’.”
The girl got out of bed, glass in hand.

Horace’s Final Five

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits, necessary to sustain life. But poetry,...

Horace’s Run For The Roses

Henderson, Nebraska Sunday, September 28, 1969 2:03 PM And it's run for the rosesAs fast as you canYou fate is deliveredYour moment's at hand It's the chance of a lifetimeIn a lifetime of chanceAnd it's high time you joinedIn the dance Dan Fogelberg Grandpa sighed,...

Bedtime Story

Uncle Fred left the door open again while he was bringing his Diet Pepsi into the house. Buster looked up at him, wondering if it was going to be Time for Cuddles pretty soon, and he followed him out to get the next 12 pack, meowing loudly to get Uncle Fred's...

Two Moments: Clara’s Father

Clara was not quite 5 that day in 1954 while she sat in her bedroom playing with her doll. The sun was shining happily through her windows, and she was singing to herself about a very small spider and a water spout. At first, she was oblivious to the yelling outside....

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