Here's a better link to my Psychology Today blog.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dogs-best-friend
observations, comments, findings—factual and fictional— beliefs, and thoughts about the world and its creatures started and maintained as a way to keep amuse and possibly edify the world's pilgrims on their journey to we know not where
Monday, June 11, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
New Blog
I will be putting Dog Bytes to rest for a while to concentrate of my new blog hosted by Psychology Today, called Dog's Best Friend, after my first dog book. The address is:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dogs-best-friend/201206/dogs-say-dont-fence-me-in-0
I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dogs-best-friend/201206/dogs-say-dont-fence-me-in-0
I hope you enjoy it.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
stray dogs and miscreants
I intended to post a commentary on Miami Beach's conversion of itself into a police state for Urban Beach Week, a 'spontaneous' annual gathering of hip-hoppers, real and imagined hedonists, and general gadflies of meism that usually produces one or more bizarre events—last year police fired some 400 rounds into a car and its driver whose sole offense seems to have been driving on a barricaded street. Police claimed he was firing at them, but it took three days to find a gun.
This year a heavy police presence seems to have calmmed everyone although several days remain. It is unlikely any event will top the spectacle of one naked biped trying to chew the face off another in broad daylight on the off ramp of the MacArthur Causeway, the main thoroughfare to South Miami Beach, epicenter of the debauch. Miami police shot and killed the cannibal. Forget ravening wolves and marauding dogs—it's the people who are truly frightening
Fortunately this story out of China of a mountain bike racer and a stray dog who adopted each other and then made a 2000 kilometer ride together in a race through the mountains of western China into Tibet reminds me that the naked biped is capable of more than debauchery and barbarity—not that I have anything against ritual frenzy per se. I do, however, dislike groupism.
It goes without saying that these extremes of behavior define our species and demonstrate why religion and ethics exist and why we constantly violate them. We are performing according to our natures. The world will change when our natures change, and they will be transformed ony through a change in each individual's consciousness that must come from within, from a confrontation with the worst of us that allows the best of us to ride on. And it's a damn good thing I'm not a religious man.
This year a heavy police presence seems to have calmmed everyone although several days remain. It is unlikely any event will top the spectacle of one naked biped trying to chew the face off another in broad daylight on the off ramp of the MacArthur Causeway, the main thoroughfare to South Miami Beach, epicenter of the debauch. Miami police shot and killed the cannibal. Forget ravening wolves and marauding dogs—it's the people who are truly frightening
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Fortunately this story out of China of a mountain bike racer and a stray dog who adopted each other and then made a 2000 kilometer ride together in a race through the mountains of western China into Tibet reminds me that the naked biped is capable of more than debauchery and barbarity—not that I have anything against ritual frenzy per se. I do, however, dislike groupism.
It goes without saying that these extremes of behavior define our species and demonstrate why religion and ethics exist and why we constantly violate them. We are performing according to our natures. The world will change when our natures change, and they will be transformed ony through a change in each individual's consciousness that must come from within, from a confrontation with the worst of us that allows the best of us to ride on. And it's a damn good thing I'm not a religious man.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Back to It
I owe multiple catch-up posts on the new Jack Russell terrier puppy Toodles and other matters but for now, while I was returning home from my morning swim the other day, I heard Mitt Romney rushing through another speech as if the words hurt him. Then it came to me--the Mitt sounds like a man running downhill with your wallet in his hand.
As he picks up speed, you can barely discern, receding with him, the words: "But you gave it to me...."
As he picks up speed, you can barely discern, receding with him, the words: "But you gave it to me...."
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Back Again
Google is in full digest mode, trying to unify its databases and clean-up its design, its interface. The battle seems over privacy, but fighting it is on a par with using the current war to refight the previous one. The chief reason that is not more discussed now lies, I think, in the different ecologies of Afghanistan and Vietnam, which allow people to claim they are not similar. Wrong. The physical terrain amounts to nothing compared with the psychological territory, in which the generals are as lost now as 50 years ago. Here is a glaring example, a story heard on NPR this morning. Army has built a fake Afghan village in which it is training the military advisers to train fighters who tactical skill already surpasses that of their advisers. The training is in English. The alarms should be melting down. Learn the language and culture. Well, do that, and we won't be there at all.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Legend of Uno and Duo
Here's a little change, which I hope some viewers will find amusing. It might be called 'parable as legend.'
http://youtu.be/DQz1mJxju0U
http://youtu.be/DQz1mJxju0U
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