[Guest Blott from UC#3] Gentle People – using my WLBOTT Amex card[1], I ventured to East Bernard Texas to evaluate the quality of Vincek’s Smokehouse. It is a Czech style place where you can buy fresh meat, cooked bbq or get your deer processed after a hunt. I would give the sausage I sampled a […]
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Reflections on “Ar Hyd y Nos” (All Through the Night), a Welsh lullaby. Sleep my child and peace attend thee,All through the nightGuardian angels God will send thee,All through the night Soft the drowsy hours are creepingHill and vale in slumber sleeping,I my loving vigil keepingAll through the night. While the moon her watch is […]
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The Humble “Before”
Yesterday’s BLOTT (Everybody Loves Me, What About You?) leads naturally to a reflection on humility. Is it possible to combine humor and humility? (Our first humbleness failure may be assuming WLBOTT is funny.) But for the sake of argument, let’s make this assumption and move forward. There’s an interesting article titled “The Limits of Humility: […]
As faithful readers of WLBOTT will recall (here and here), our bachelor farmer, with the help of Tess Twinehart, is exploring different religious traditions, hoping to find the best matchmaking services to alleviate his loneliness. Today, our bachelor farmer BB40 is exploring the world of Hindu matchmaking. It is a world BB40 was not expecting. […]
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Quixotic Cupid Quest
Today we continue with the adventures of our lonely Bachelor Back-40. Dear BB40, We wish you the best, dear heart! – Tess Dear Tess, So today I began my Christian Potluck Matchmaking search and immediately ran into a problem. Turns out so many Christians have lost their church home. The only people welcome inside “Christian” […]
Dear Tess, It gets so lonely out her on the back 40. I need me a life partner. Can you help? I don’t have that internet thing, so I’ll have to meet a woman the old fashion way – at a church pot luck. I’m open minded – what religion has the best match making? […]
I introduced my son to the United States intellectual property protection system years ago. We noticed that our self-inflating whoopee cushion was patented! But innovation never rests! It turns out that the self-inflating whoopee cushion is the subject of intense research and development. What is the Whoopee Cushion? But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. […]
Dear Tess, I’ve fallen into the habit of listening to air raid sirens. Not just one, but usually five. I like the way they go in and out of phase and produce delightful harmonics. For variation, I will start the playlist in different order, or use the shuffle feature of Spotify. It’s been a bit […]
This morning I was consulting with Elder G, our WLBOTT AI companion and part-time psycho-therapist. I was bemoaning the fact that blue my vote in Texas is pretty inconsequential. Turns out that it is more likely that I: Oddly, while reviewing this article with the WLBOTT editorial staff, I got push-back on the polar bear […]
[Ed. note: as we prepared to illustrate our series on The Bravery of Women and Maternal Mortality, some of the AI-generated images presented implausible mixes of ethnicity and race. Please know there is no disrespect. Many of these images are illustrative and beautiful in their own right, even when there is confusion with the racial […]