Category Archives: Thoughts from the Fence

The sex-psychologist Christoph Joseph Ahlers, in a recent interview with “Zeit,” repeated the idea that sexual interaction is the most intimate form of communication and that communication is the most important function of sex. Sounds lovely, but if we took … Continue reading →

To be finely tuned and ever so predictably on time? Let us all! Is time only a tune clicking along too slowly to sing a song with us? Does in-tune so chain us into time that it only mirrors the … Continue reading →

One strives to be bettah… Surely, rising to the cream of the riding crop also entails, at least at the level of the horse’s arse, that one has acquired an expensive taste in ethics, paid for with the sweat of … Continue reading →

Every morning and mid-afternoon, the heavy diesel engines of whole armadas of school buses rumble through this densely populated middle-class neighborhood, passing each other in a rush of officiousness, stopping at various corners, halting all traffic. Children waiting listlessly, some … Continue reading →

If religion has taught us anything it is that we can be most sure to be heard when no one is listening. Indeed, we have a long history of expert interpreters who can tell us what Nobody will listen to, … Continue reading →

Imagine religion without cloth. What would happen to distinction, extinction of sin, and unctuous wrapping of insignificance in excelsis deo? How else can you tell a cardinal from a taylor but by the fact that the former wears crocheting around … Continue reading →

Prompted by George Stephanopoulos of ABC during a Republican debate, Presidential aspirant Mitt Romney declared “I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice” And then: “I changed my position.” – The logic is somewhat confused, because, theoretically, … Continue reading →

The following thoughts are quite unclear, but my hand was guided by my confusing Guardian Angel: As the stomach turns, watching the reality show of current world affairs, some people seem fascinated again by the possibility of angels, looming in … Continue reading →

Rarely do we preface our remarks with “jokingly” or “humorously.” We like to add that after the fact, “just joking,” as if to forestall the possibility of being taken at our word. However, the overture “seriously” seems to roll off … Continue reading →

Ever since Plato, mathematicians have liked to maintain that examples in the physical world for geometric forms or even for fractions are only approximations of the true mathematical ideals. – Strange magic trick, indeed. The fact is that it is … Continue reading →

Her lover, the Wiz, used to make it his biz, to procure adornments for Liz. Or so he maintained, till the truth was so strained by his acts, that she told him the facts. The shame turned him red and he … Continue reading →

If we did not anticipate the end of the harvest season and the end of the snowfall and the end of… would we just be like fish in the water, swimmingly ourselves, no matter what the season? But to anticipate … Continue reading →