Author: Knoxville Progressive

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.   ~Author Unknown

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the...

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. — Primo Levi

I was driving home from work and NPR was running a story about the transit of mercury across the face of the sun tomorrow.  I wondered, for grins, “What are the astrologers predicting for this election?” So...

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of...