Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
Dissimilarity is what threatens us; similarity — the notion that there are shared, common characteristics between you and I — provides for an acceptable level of comfort and security. When we learn about the lives of the “rich and famous”, […]
Why “straight” as opposed to curved or in a zig-zag manner? Who first thought that it was preferable, desirable, and even “smarter” to “think straight” as opposed to a thought process which involves a greater complexity of circuitous routes? Is the origin based upon a metaphor or an analogy — that, because the shortest distance from Point A to Destination B must by geometric necessity involve a straight line, […]
Do We dread, or welcome them? Is it a season to which we look forward, or hope that they will quickly fade into memories best left forgotten? Is it to endure, tolerate, give a plastic smile to, or do we guffaw uproariously where our hearts flutter with sincere flushes of joyful tears? On the other hand, must our emotions always be bifurcated into extremes of disjunctives? Must it be “Either/Or” (to borrow Kierkegaard’s Title to his opus magnum)? […]
What constitutes it? What is the evidence that it was engaged in? When a person is charged with “premeditation” in the perpetration of a crime, and therefore ascription of full responsibility is used to convict and assign a greater length of incarceration, what methodological intricacies are involved? Take the following hypothetical: A man walks into a candy store and grabs a Snicker’s Bar, and runs out of the store without paying for it. […]
It is primarily a form of play or sport; but in other contexts, used as a verb, it can imply or denote the manipulation of rules in order to attain a result through unfair or unscrupulous means. As a sport, some engage in the competitive aspects of life itself, outside of the boundaries of organized or even recognized activity — as in playing “mind games” or harassment for purposes of torturing and victimizing. Fiefdoms tend to encourage that sort of gamesmanship; and while Feudal Lords no longer exist in an official capacity, they continue to pervade through vestiges of barbarity concealed in the cosmetic niceties of polite society. […]