2023

Yesterday, we talked about Pluto.Today, let us talk about Plato. Alfred North Whitehead, a smarty British mathematician and philosopher, once said, “All of Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato.” Plato. Plato. The in-between guy. He started out as a young follower of Socrates. He would later become the mentor to Aristotle. But […]

Some people are crazy-go-nuts for Disney. They had a “Disney Week” a month or so ago on the Wheel of Fortune. Some of these people go to the Disney theme parks several times a year. Heck, one woman named her kids after Disney characters. Don’t get me wrong. I love Disney movies, and I’ve been

Bertrand Russell was an incredibly smart man, a mathematician, and a bit of a philosopher. At some point during his 97-year life, he said this:”There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” I think that might be the new motto for the Polly Goggles Bloggles. I might even have to tattoo that somewhere

When I hear the word, I immediately think of walking through the deep, dark jungles of the Congo, clearing my path with a swing of my machete while wearing my little pit hat, tilted off to one side, and hearing the rhythmic beat of tribal drums playing off in the distance. The word? Conundrum.Conundrum.Conundrum. It

Now, just by looking at a person, you probably can’t tell. I mean, how could you?Take me, for example. I was a monkey kid. I had a Sock Monkey. I also had a stuffed Curious George. So yeah. A monkey kid, I’d say. No doll babies for me. Not a single one. I didn’t have

History isn’t some dried-up old subject. No way. It is filled with things like bank robberies in the Wild West and golf balls hit on the moon. It is laced with treason and scandal, and deception. It is highlighted with honor and bravery. Here’s an interesting piece. Most of us know the tragic story of

I happened across this word the other day.
I hadn’t thought about it in a long time. Boondoggle. It seems to me the definition should look something like an old red hound dog lying on some backwater, dilapidated, old porch, sleeping the day away. Yet. That is not a boondoggle at all. Instead, it is this.

I love animals. A lot of us do. We share the planet with them, after all. Well. We are supposed to be sharing the planet with them. But we don’t do such a great job at this at all. In fact, humans are bad news when it comes to animals. The animal kingdom is dying