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2006-08-30T21:10:00.000-04:00

^{Sunday, 4 Falltring 2006}

I finally got off my duff and sent in this email to the Freep, the News, and the Metro Times:

Shouldn't we be asking questions?

Why is it that the United States could spend over $70 million dollars investigating a Democratic president on trumped up nonsense, but when the worst president ever drowns New Orleans, bankrupts America, guts Medicaid, tries to gut Social Security, wrecks the economy, gives tax breaks to the rich at the expense of the poor, illegally invades other nations, and then lies about it every day, the media refuses to call him on any of it?

I implore you to call for an investigation into the illicit activities that this administration may have engaged in while in power.

(: Tom :) at the Funny Farm

Thanks to Bartcop for inspiring me to send these emails to the appropriate parties.

2006-06-28T23:59:00.000-04:00

Tit For Tat
^{Sunday, 1 Promise 2006}

My dKos implant has been activated, and it compels me to break the silence I have so loyally adhered to since the whole KosGate scandal erupted. My unquestioning obediance to the vast left wing conspiracy has generated the following words for your infotainment, O My Brothers:

Respect Where Respect Is Due
by Tom Gevaert
Loosely based on insane ramblings in The NY Times by David Brooks

They say that the Repugnican't spin is just starting up for the fall elections and politics has become the realm of the small-minded. But in the land of the Reich Wing, the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Usurper must be accorded full respect.

The Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Usurper, a k a Gee What A Dumba$$ Putsch, sits in the WhiteWash House, fires up his Republibots at CNN, Faux Snooze, and the New York Times (hi McBobo!), and commands his followers, who come across like squadrons of rabid theofascists, to unleash their venom on those who dare to point out that the Chimperor has no clothes. And in this way the Usurper has made himself a mighty force in his own mind, and every knee shall bow.

The Usurper's first enemy was the right to an open governmental process, where energy task force meetings would not be populated with corpo-weasels from the energy industry, and where, even if they were, that knowledge would be available to the public. So he declared by Imperial Fiat that no one would know who or what went on in those meetings, and it pleased him to see freedom being constrained in this manner in the land of the brave. When the Putsch administration appointed the supremely unqualified, and extremely partisan Karl Rove and Karen Hughes as taxpayer paid administration insiders accountable to no one, this was an appropriate sign of disrespect, and the Usurper did lay his hand of pResidential approval upon the Rovian smear campaign (whilst hiding his connections to it).

When OhMyGodWhatADick Cheney, the pResident of the Senate, told an elected Senator to go Cheney himself on the floor of the Senate when he first became its' pResident, this was also a sign of respect. The Usurper had instructed his Repugnican't minions to support any and all smears of Democratic Party members. And the Usurper pretended he could not hear the smears of his minions, and mindless hacks like McBobo bought it hook, line, and sinker, and disseminated it throughout the land.

The Usurper often directs his wrath at Repugnican'ts who have not bought into his neocon fantasies. But the gay hooker JD Guckert has also swallowed whatever the pResident shoots his way, and the Usurper has graciously exempted Guckert from the need to be a credentialed member of the press. Guckert is frequently utilized By the Repugnican'ts as something akin to a porn fluffer.

And so it is in the realm of the Usurper. Those who blindly follow the edicts of the Chimperor get respected.

But lo, there are doubters. Joe Wilson, a US diplomat, whose wife was treasonously outed as a CIA operative while a non-official covert operative, wrote a column in the New York Times pointing out the inconsistency between the utterances of the Chimperor and reality. He further refused to cave in to administrative pressure, and stuck to his story.

The Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Deserter was displeased by this publicity.

But the Usurper hid his mighty wrath from public view (although reportedly he took it out on those who supported him the most), and his minion Rove responded with the sleaziness for which he is so well known. In a private letter to hundreds of his fellow conservative kool-aid drinkers, Rove declared (on behalf of the Usurper) he would "go on the offensive" in a "couple of months," but in the meantime, a code of omertà was in order. "It would make my life easier if we can confine the story," he wrote. "If any of us respond to the Democratic allegations right now, we fuel the story. Let's starve it of oxygen. Besides, I have a doozy of an operation slated to begin this September. They won't buy the bs then if we start to peddle it now."

But alas! There were still those of integrity within the bureaucracy, who attempted to prevent the Usurper's Kristallnacht, and tried to inform the public of what the Usurper had in store for america.

The Usurper waxed Cheneyesque on the evils of leaking, and this time the squeaking fury of the Dunsel In Chief could be heard (to those capable of discerning bedwetting cowards) far and wide. The Usurper excommunicated those who dared to dissent from the administration. "you are either with us or with the terrorists" he said with a straight face during remarks to the US Congress.

"We ask every nation to join us. We will ask, and we will need, the help of police forces, intelligence services, and banking systems around the world." the Usurper charged. And so a pair of Asian nations was expunged from the global community of the righteous, and its people cast into the shadow of oblivion.

The Usurper does not notice that his people are angered with his arrogance (unless his advisors disrupt his blissful ignorance). Sounding like Tom DeLay — who is his loyal lieutenant — Putsch says that those who dare to criticize his Imperial pResidency and take on the establishment are bound to be persecuted to the full extant that the administration is capable of.

But the truth is that the new boss is little different from the old boss — only smaller. Dennis Hastert and Bill Frist and many other Repugnican'ts bow and scrape to this Clueless Blunder. He has managed to spread the gospel of smear and deflect far and wide, which is not really about ideas and philosophy. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator" he has said.

And so the Usurper has his relationships and his understandings and his networks and his compromises. In just a few short years he has achieved a level of self-importance it took those in the pre-junta political class decades to acquire. And all it has cost mankind is the soul of its' greatest nation.

He has challenged his enemy and become it.

Is It Spring Aleady?

2006-04-20T17:37:00.000-04:00

I haven't been to the Big Smoke since my friend's heart stopped. Nor have I been updating this page for a while. What could I possibly have been up to since then?

Quick Question to the Federal Election Commission of the United States Government

2006-01-24T21:36:00.000-05:00

^{Sunday, 29 Premise 2006}

How come the Canadian election can be counted and verified by hand by the time the Royal Canadian Ballet closes down for the night, but youse guys can't allow international observers to verify the vote, and can't count it right - even after almost five and a half years (don't even start about the last two [national and mid term] elections) after you stole the first one. Are you hoping to be long gone from this mortal coil before the truth comes to light? And, do you think it might be possible for you to study the elections going on next door to see how somebody else does a pretty good job of registering the choice of their voters? Maybe so that you can learn how to do it yourself?

What Excuse Could I possibly Come Up With This Time?

2005-11-30T18:46:00.000-05:00

And can I still post in the quizzical mode I have (more or less) been doing here up until now?

Well, there's always the problem that this is a secondary site for me - I have some philosophical disagreements in how to pursue filthy lucre on the internets with my good friend Joe over at Key Questions. And he is having a number of issues on his own that are hard to deal with, with child-turning-into-adult situational maintenance being rather high on his to-do list (I'm guessing - I haven't had the time to get in touch with him lately). Plus holiday festivities can cause stress in some circles, and many of the long time friend types are not Festivus-friendly.

Be that as it may, I think I'm going to try and become a clogger over here - maybe a couple of posts a month, but not too much. Perhaps I will see some of the potential profitability of our joint ventures here on the World Wild Web if I ask Joe next time I see him? And could there actually be some money to be made writing stuff on a weblog?

Does marijuana help relieve depression by generating new brain cells?

2005-10-22T11:34:00.000-04:00

Canadian University Research Suggests Marijuana Analogue Stimulates Brain Cell Growth

A synthetic substance similar to ones found in marijuana stimulates cell growth in regions of the brain associated with anxiety and depression, pointing the way for new treatments for these diseases, according to University of Saskatchewan medical research published today in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Xia Zhang, an associate professor in the U of S neuropsychiatry research unit, led the team that tested the effects of HU-210, a potent synthetic cannabinoid similar to a group of compounds found in marijuana. The synthetic version is about 100 times as powerful as THC, the compound responsible for the high experienced by recreational users.

The team found that rats treated with HU-210 on a regular basis showed neurogenesis – the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus. This region of the brain is associated with learning and memory, as well as anxiety and depression.

The effect is the opposite of most legal and illicit drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, heroin, and cocaine.

“Most ‘drugs of abuse’ suppress neurogenesis,” Zhang says. “Only marijuana promotes neurogenesis.”

Current theory states that depression may be sparked when too few new brain cells are grown in the hippocampus. It is unclear whether anxiety is part of this process, but if true, HU-210 could offer a treatment for both mood disorders by stimulating the growth of new brain cells.

Read more at KeyQuestions.blogspot.com and at ScienceDaily.com

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Now I'm a Farmer ...

2005-10-09T09:24:00.000-04:00

... and I'm diging digging digging digging!

Well, nice to see you all arriving at the party on time! I just finished reading Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman, a real must-read for any Jim Morrison or Iggy Pop fans out there. Danny is co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive, and he was hanging with The Doors from when he was about twelve, working for them (answering fan mail, writing press releases) since he was fourteen. It was all hunky dory until the needle and the damage done.

For there to be interaction there has to be action; from a quick peruse, I'd say you could increase your blog's popularity sevenfold by posting shorter articles, but more frequently. Cut to the flippin chase my friend, and if you don't want the official FunnyFarmOnline.org site to be commercialized, utilize this baby for that porpoise. You know I have four large offspring and cannot pay my freakin' bills right now.

Anyways, there's a Malene Arpe article in the Toronto Star today about a cybercouple from Boston and Toronto who recently married, with wedding coverage on both of their blogs and on their rabbi's blog, VelveteenRabbi Blog .

Here's some of the story of the blogging couple, Joey deVilla of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Wendy Koslow of Boston, Massachusetts, USA:

What blog has joined together ... Blogospheric romance makes something old something new

MALENE ARPE
ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER

They promised to love, honour ... and blog.

Wendy Koslow and Joey deVilla got married Sept. 24 in Boston after a year of careful planning, but if you're a reader of deVilla's blog or the couple's mutual blog, you already knew that.

Koslow, 31, of Boston, and deVilla, 37, a Toronto resident, met at a blogging conference. The rabbi, of course, has all the details on her blog.

"Last night I married Wendy Koslow (of now-defunct blog The Redhead Wore Crimson) and Joey "Accordion Guy" deVilla. Their story reads like a fairytale.

They were introduced by Reverend AKMA at the first BloggerCon a few years back. Despite the distance between Toronto and Boston (and between their two families and backgrounds — Wendy is Jewish and American, Joey a Catholic Philippino-Canadian) they fell in love," reads a recent entry from Rachel Barenblat's Velveteen Rabbi blog.

There was no blogging involved in last year's romantic proposal.

"We'd just spent the weekend out on the town (in Boston) celebrating Wendy's 30th birthday. After a quiet romantic dinner, we went back to Wendy's apartment where we were planning to have dessert and watch a movie. While relaxing, Joey decided that this was as good a time as any, and asked, "Wendy, will you marry this big ol' dumb ol' bear?'" the couple says — via email, of course.

"Everyone was expecting the engagement to happen that weekend except for us. Joey didn't plan to propose then. We didn't even have a ring — there was a diamond waiting for us, but it wasn't in town with Joey."

Last October, following the enthusiastic "yes" to the proposal, the couple started posting the ups and downs and minutiae and links of wedding planning on wendyandjoey.com. On Oct. 29, Joey, a technical community development coordinator, had this update:

"In case you hadn't heard, our wedding will be both multicultural and interfaith...

More of this story on TheStar.com

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What Can We Say?

2005-10-07T21:48:00.000-04:00

When you can't think of anything to ask, what can you post about on a site such as this? Besides, judging from the gen eral interest level here, did anyone particularly miss me? Especially when you can just surf on over to the Funny Farm and see that I've been busy over there, and struggling with blog burnout. It's been three years since I started trying to write with regularity in this format, and seeing very little input of any kind on this new site would be bad enough. I was hoping for a bit of interweaving commentary between the two of us - some comments on each other's posts, and some interplay within the posts themselves (which has happened to some small degree IMHO). To see little along these lines, much less some real comments from real people (or partners in bloggy goodness), and to see the only kind of comments that come in be for other blogvertising, is somewhat disheartening to boot.

Does this sort of mutual admiration society actually work out to anyone's benefit? Or are our websites merely part of the latest bucket of crabs - with technological advancement, but no improvement in our relative social condition, while we scurry about trying to get each other to buy things that we refer one another to?

FunnyFarmOnline.org : Did U miss us???

2005-09-15T16:44:00.000-04:00

Sorry we've been away from our digs on the Fashionable Left Bank of BlogistanTM for a bit. It was time for a slight break from dealing with the nonstop barrage from the propaganda machine propping up the sad excuse for a pResident that is currently installed in the White House. Who knew that being Stand-Up Philosopher General could be such a stressful position?

For the full post, Visit the farm!

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2005-09-11T13:22:00.000-04:00

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Is the world falling apart? Are we having fun yet?

2005-09-09T16:03:00.000-04:00

Why be concerned about the KeyQuestions.blogspot.com Blog? Would divergent strategies and cross-linking to previous posts not add both content and traffic to each of Solar-Intelligence.blogspot.com and FunnyFarmOnline.org?

I'm having a lot of fun, even though my personal finances are collapsing, the world is decaying, the temperature is rising, but hey, the joy is in the solutions, not the problems?

Are we having fun yet?

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What's Going On At Key Questions?

2005-09-08T08:30:00.000-04:00

I see that there has been a slight divergence in the type of content that appears in different places on the two websites my friend YuyaJo and I recently started. Almost like various and sundry relics of past millenia are being trotted out and tried on for size. What's up with that?

As for respiratory distress, I sometimes (cough) use a slight cough in my prose to denote a tinge (cough) of sarcasm. Do you remember the scene in the courtroom in the movie Animal House where the boys in the frat house started coughing while saying a naughty word under their breaths?

Why was the Narrator coughing?

2005-09-05T10:51:00.000-04:00

I've been meaning to visit that humorous agricultural institution, as am a farmer from way back myself ... isn't FF online a relic from the 20th Century, or am I confuciousing it with an old Jack Nicholson flick, a Ken Kesey romp?

The thought that one could be so livicated to an older paradigm, ignoring the questions just begging 2 B asked, well, never crossed my naive Canadian mind ...

Why did the Canadian cross the road? K, in a small violation of the KQ motto of just questions (even a knock-knock joke needs to know, who's there?), an answer just might be, "to get to the middle, eh?"

No?

Were You Able To Figure It Out?

2005-09-03T09:52:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Rhetorical Reasoning: Why was there any question as to the whereabouts of Your Humble (cough) Narrator? When all that you needed to do was to go to The Funny Farm yourself and see that I was busy providing bloggy goodness in another zone?

We all have different rhythms in our activities. Didn't you write about it yourself the other day?*

The only doubts I have at this point pertain to whether you checked out my usual haunts before putting that post together.

Wouldn't it have been better to wonder if I would ever be cross posting some of the Quick Questions I write about at the Funny Farm? While providing links to some of the interesting things you read there? Instead of just idly speculating about what's going on?

* - Well, technically you did write about it quite some time ago, and just re-linked to your original the other day. Right?

Quick Question

2005-09-02T23:43:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Duplicative Directed Distributions: Could I honestly think that I could get away with temporal enhancement of posts in Blogger? Only time will tell. Until then, you can read this entry here as well as its' original posting here.

After finally reading this post from Xoverboard as well as about a gazillion other comments on various blogs, we can't help but wonder if anyone even bothers with, you know, actually believing any of the kimchee spewing from conservabots these days? We can't believe that the media thinks this is going to work. And, if they are really seriously making statements along the lines that John lays into in his post, we sincerely hope everyone is parsing along.

We were also wondering if anyone else thought about at least temporarily (cough) relocating some of the victims of the NOLA disaster to a certain ranch that has just been vacated? It certainly seems to be rather large - maybe you could build a few shotgun shacks on approximately two and a half square miles?

Is the Zen Jester MIA? Where for art thou, O Meister ot the Funny Farm?

2005-09-01T16:00:00.000-04:00

Has anybody heard from the Funny Farm? Are there not any questions doubting Thomas? You do not expect me to believe that everything is hunky dory, all questions already answered, no pondering going on at all, none whatsoever, really, you don't even want me to believe that, do you? Well?

How would U define a Blogger?

2005-08-29T07:39:00.000-04:00

What are Blogspeak Definitions for Blogger, Blotter, Clogger and Clotter? No offence intended if u r one of the latter two, KQ has similar ghastly origins; we all slither out of the primordial ooze, no?

Blogspeak Definitions - Blogger, Blotter, Clogger, Clotter

Blogger - One who posts once or twice daily or more, this probably describes most of you ultra-hyper cybersouls who make up the bulk of the incestuous blogworld ...

Blotter - If you post once or twice per week, you are almost a blogger, but perhaps your reticence categorizes you as something of a ...

Wanna read the original post at Solar-Intelligence.blogspot.com ?

Have you tried to use BlogHop on your blog?

2005-08-28T17:58:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Capitalism Crash Course: Would you put a link to BlogHop on your web page? If, so, what do you hop to accomplish with its' inclusion? Fame, fortune, tons of favorable karma, or money, money, money? And which is more important to you, both now, and in the long run?

Google loves Blogs; Isn't this truly amazing?

2005-08-27T12:09:00.000-04:00

How did the stunning new ZenJeopardy and KeyQuestions blogs get indexed by Google so quickly? Isn't it amazing how freelance content from human beings is regaining the ground lost when the web was corporatized in the late 1990s?

Are we having fun yet?

2005-08-27T11:24:00.000-04:00

Is there still time to nurture and instil a culture of benign technodiversity, leading to a community of sustainable societies no longer mortgaging the future?

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Re: Website revenue generation; What is working for you?

2005-08-26T10:52:00.000-04:00

If any readers who run blogs or websites are reading this, what would you say, other than Google and Amazon, would be good links for revenue generation? Which are best for generating click-through income, and which links provide the best commissions from website links? Finally, which website links are most important from a social point of view, even if they do not provide any revenue?

Why would I post an email here that I sent to another site?

2005-08-26T00:00:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Synchronous Sendings: Where else will you be able to see this email I sent to Bartcop if he doesn't print it? How would you be able to understand what I was talking about if I didn't show you the original email, and his response to it, on his web page from yesterday?

Subject: jury awards

McDonalds was the bad guy?

Yep, McDonald's was the bad guy, handing out products that require you to have multiple surgeries if you spill some on yourself while driving a car.

Give me a break.

Yep, that's their slogan.

A woman drives into a McDonalds drive thru, buys coffee, which, usually is served hot, as is the custom, she is driving in heavy stop and go early morning traffic, so naturally she thinks, where is the best place to put a Styrofoam vessel holding a very hot liquid? Why, between my legs naturally, this way, I can hold it steady while alternately using the gas and brake pedals.
So she had several operations, so what? She did this to herself. If she did not have any kind of cup holder in the car, maybe she should not have gotten something that could hurt her.
People complain about Bush, and they should, but when will the average American actually take responsibility for their actions? As long as they can target someone else, why should they worry about what they do? The whole American culture has become obsessed with the "its someone else's fault" syndrome, up to and including the President. No matter what stupid thing someone does, there is an attorney out there that can figure out a way to make sure some else is at fault.
John A

John, we disagree on this.
The way I see it, McDonalds knows they can make an extra .01 percent of profit if they serve that dangerous liquid in a shaky-ass cup at a scalding 210 f-ing degrees.
And like you say, they put that surgery-causing liquid inside a moving car for elderly people to negotiate for that extra .01 percent of profit and I say that's depraved indifference.
I say they could eat that extra .01 percent of profit and serve coffee at 160 degrees and (great idea!) serve it in better cups with tighter lids, but it's cheaper to scald the old people.

But even the old lady shouldn't get $15M.
That's a lot of money.
Comments?

What kind of a person has so little compassion for their fellow humans? Would you believe that it elicited this response from Your Humble Narrator?

re: jury awards : The McDonalds lady myth
Hey Bart!

How come you didn't put a Monkey Mail logo above that McDonald's email?

1. Corpo-weasels at Mickey Dees willfully and with malice aforethought broke the regulations regarding how hot they could sell coffee. They knowingly did this for that extra .000001%.

2. There were others who were scalded who were either bought off or threatened or both to keep them quiet before this lady won her lawsuit. The original award to this old lady didn't even cover the costs of the surgery. Some more of that conservative compassion for ya, right there.

3. Oh, and that big award that the lady supposedly got in punitive damages? It was equivalent to two days worth of the estimated corporate coffee sales ($2.7 million) after the years they flaunted the regulations. The judge reduced it to under 1/2 million.

Thanks, monkey, for making our points for us! You have your knickers in a twist because the corporations couldn't shaft the little guy and get away with it, you blame the victim because they got sucked in by greedy executroids who were breaking the law, and you blame the sheeple for getting pissed because we have no choice but to pay for big business to loose the wolves upon us. And you'd be the first to bleat and sue some mom and pop if they made a hairsbreadths error when they service your consumer needs.

Sure, we should take responsibility for our actions. Why is it, then, that corporate personages do not accept the responsibility for theirs?

One link to you, Bart, from a fellow Michigander writing at dKos from last year dispelling the myth: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/1/141345/4615

Please restrict your monkey mail to the smarter ditto monkeys, and the more monkey mail logos (and letters) the better! And keep swinging the hammer.

(: Tom :) the Pillar in Pontiac.
owner, chief cook, and bottle washer at the Funny Farm

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2005-08-25T09:55:00.000-04:00

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Wouldn't U agree?

2005-08-25T07:11:00.000-04:00

If there's 2 B any chance of these enquisitive blogs having success in the blogsphere, wouldn't it seem to an enquiring mind that there would have to be elements of disagreement, discussion, and heaven don't forbid, arguments? Could people possibly be allowed to have different opinions, to be smiley-faced and of varying outlooks and POVs? What is this fresh Itopia? Who gave U the right to post any question that comes to your mind? Why would you expect questions from Joe Public before U have posted a few months of content yerself, oh wizardly wordly worldy Zen Jester U?

Write Now (I can be punny also ...) it is only I and I, so while we while away the daze waiting on a friend, a little controversy can go a long way; wouldn't U agree?

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Did somebody have a bad day yesterday?

2005-08-24T17:16:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Karmic Kangaroo Kourt: Why was the noting of something that I considered quite an unusual coincidence too much to handle so early in the morning? Was it self-aggrandizing to try and find some common ground that we might be able to stand on together?

Would it be completely out of line for someone who has not posted any comments of his own yet to attack his budding readership for not making any comments?

And finally, as for readers, faithful or not, are there any eyes besides our own that are checking out the posts here? If so, inquiring minds want to know - what would it take to get you to post a comment on this blog?

What is the sound of one hand ...

2005-08-23T08:20:00.000-04:00

... clapping? Massaging oneself? Who gives a flying freak brother whether two different blogs have the same template, give me some flippin coffee for Pete's sake, it's too early for this ...

alright all you unfaithful readers, do U think that it's fair that the Funny Farm and I post all the questions? Is there not something U R wondering about? Post a few questions of your own, but do not expect any answers, for surely some smartass is gonna be right back at ya with questions of her own, and if not, well, ZJ and KQ just might have some pondering of their own to do, don't ya think?

Who could have seen this coming?

2005-08-23T03:01:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Cosmic Coincidences: What are the odds that Key Questions and Zen Jeopardy would have chosen the same Blogger template? Is this merely a function of the meager choices available to those who wish to have the links on the left hand side of the page? Or were we both drawn to use the same template (which of course will probably be changed somewhat shortly after this is posted) by some sort of similarity in our worldviews which inexorably leads us to follow the same mental route once we start out from (relatively speaking) the same spot?

What could possibly be accomplished by starting a blog like this one?

2005-08-22T06:36:00.000-04:00

In the Zen Jeopardy category Metaphysical Meanderings: What strange compulsion could drive someone to create a blog called Zen Jeopardy? Is this something that could prove to be a worthy addition to the blogging community?

Could this possibly be connected to a concerted effort by Solar Intelligence and The Funny Farm to create a worthy forum for your never-ending quest for enlightenment?