This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.       -- TS Eliot - The Hollow Men In my last post we looked at how Enemies of Civilization might use a small

Pinpricks.  I'm talking about pinpricks. In my last post I speculated that it might not take as much as we would like to think to utterly destroy the Civilization As we Know It (CAWKI).

When a building is being demolished, demolition experts are called in to apply the minimum amount of shaped charges in just the right places to make the building collapse in upon itself from its own weight

"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."

My grandmother had a basement that would flood two feet deep when it rained. She kept two wooden chairs that she would use like movable stepping-stones to leap frog her way across the basement pond to

The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... It's the appointed time to solve the mystery about the four intended meanings behind the name of this blog. As a special bonus for our long-time

The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... Clue #4 “I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where

The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... In Monty Python and the Holy Grail there is a classic scene set during the height of the Black Plague. Dejected government workers are pulling a

The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... Clue #2. There is an old episode of Star Trek (City on the Edge of Forever, 1967) where Dr. McCoy travels back into time to the Great Depression

"The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about." This blog has been goaded into being by the mere existence of Steemit ...and the gallingly successful efforts of two of my more prolific