Have a heart towards upcoming retiree Boomers and lift all child-safety laws before we see a rash of injuries and fatalities suffered removing impregnable safety precautions. Insurance rates will soar. Children need challenge anyway. Maybe they can teach their parents why they should just keep poisons out of reach of children and not interfere unless there’s blood....
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To X or Not to X
That is the Question aka How to Chuck-Hole the Self into X-Obscurity Twitter – now X, our agreed upon, allowed indulgence, now and then invites us to “Promote a Tweet” after which our heart sinks unanomously as the argument forever ensues. Self asks: “Well – do we wish to promote what is now probably an X?” We...
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Define Right and Left – My How They Have Changed History of right vs left dynamics: “The terms right and left refer to political affiliations originating early in the French Revolutionary era of 1789–1799 and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France. As seen from the Speaker’s seat at the front...
Continue reading...Chaos Asks: Quora Questions
We Ask the Wicked Questions These are among the many things Chaos ponders. Whether ‘rightly’ or ‘wrongly’ only the Shadow knows… At this point, Chaos distrusts the Quora social platform entirely. When we were invited to take part in the forum to earn pennies for our thoughts, Chaos believed the forum wanted our input. After several hundred...
Continue reading...Where Oh Where Did Liberty Go?
We have a lifetime of hearing the words of French writer, wit, and philosopher Voltaire as drilled into our head, like at the meetings for Free Thinkers… “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltair’s ‘common sense’ crusade against superstition and prejudice...
Continue reading...Gender Equality for Women by Country
It has been several years since we presumed to write this opinion article and wondered the logic and reason of it all. While the plite of women seems a noble enough cause to ponder, we now ask where did this all go so wrong to the point males now claim to be female to the ludicrous point...
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Insecurity of the Walking Dead Vampires/Zombies Replace Aliens to infect Earthling brains. (sarcasm alert!) We insist Chaos is impressed with the propaganda machine’s handling of the emerging disease du jour Zika. Since first percolating a few short months back the hyper-coverage has exponentially focused toward the realm of ebola hysteria but, lesson learned, with subtly this go...
Continue reading...Women’s Rights/ Men’s Rights – Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Women’s Rights movement of the 1850’s was sparked, in part, by women who chose to wear pants and not adorn themselves as tradition dictated. It didn’t take long for the women’s rights movement to drop their drawers, however, to disassociate themselves from popularity of bloomers as a competitor for attention. The connection stuck tho, and bloomers are...
Continue reading...What are Wicked Problems?
Wicked problems are problems that are difficult or impossible to solve. These issues are referred to as wicked, not because they are inherently good or evil, but because issues conceal incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements. Solutions are resistent and often difficult to recognize. Efforts to solve one or more aspects of a wicked problem may reveal or...
Continue reading...Golden Rule of Reciprocity
Law of Reciprocity A maxim of altruism to govern behavior Appears in most religions and cultures Can be positive or negative Golden Rule Anglican theologians and preachers popularized the term “Golden Rule” to description the Law of Reciprocity in early 17th century Britain. The most often heard versions of the Law of Reciprocity these days are; Treat...
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