WildEyed Loon

  • Irrational Choice?

    Irrational Choice?

    I had a bit of a scare on Tuesday. I’d already been really stressed out, thinking about the election and the vandals/rioters and being generally in a state of panic, when my work decided we needed to fill out an online questionnaire about our medical history. The Medical History Questionnaire I don’t do well with…

  • The Measure of Equality

    The Measure of Equality

    Sometime back in 1997, I did a bit at the Comedy Underground in Seattle that involved me ending up lying on the floor with both of my legs thrust up to the ceiling. There I am, talking to the audience in that undignified position, and there was silence. Everyone just stared at me. I did…

  • Karin and the Bees

    Karin and the Bees

    A quick story about something that happened to me in Israel in 1991. Once upon a time, I was a student in the Philosophy and Religion department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. So, not a Cornhusker, we were Mavericks. Back then, costs were not as high as they were today, and I got…

  • The Last Elected American President

    The Last Elected American President

    Warning: All of this is coming from my noodle, which believes everything is highly suspicious and also tends to believe in conspiracies. I know I have an over-active imagination. But I’ve seen too much in this life to not be the way I am. You have been warned. Earlier this week, I’d posted something about…

  • Why Trump Will Win

    Why Trump Will Win

    It was November 2016 and Seattle was gearing up for the election. Parties were being planned and people were already celebrating because it seems to be the general consensus that Hilary Clinton is going to win. The first woman President of the United States is a huge deal, especially in a liberal city like Seattle.…

  • The Car Hijack – 1987

    The Car Hijack – 1987

    It was back in 1987, or so, I don’t remember, when I got my car hijacked from under me. This is the story. I mentioned this before in my Questioning Good & Evil post. But this is the full story. Once upon a time a woman named Karin was in the Navy. Now, she was…

  • Riots and Rights in the “Age of Helplessness”

    Riots and Rights in the “Age of Helplessness”

    It seems like the world has gone crazy, hasn’t it? And guess what? It has gone crazy. But maybe not in the way we think, the way it seems on the surface, the way we are all yelling about on social media. I could say it all started with COVID, but that’s not true. It’s…

  • Death of a Friendship

    Death of a Friendship

    I find myself remembering the past, old friends, and things that happened, never happened, and maybe should have happened. I miss an old friend. When I was younger, I was extremely shy. I still am shy, but I have such developed extroverted skills, no one believes me anymore when I tell them I’m shy. But,…

  • The American Dream?

    The American Dream?

    We are living, in some ways, the worst of times, and in some ways the best. I’m speaking of the United States seemingly intent on destroying itself out of fear, frustration, and the need to be right. I could talk more about that, but there is something else to think about. Something that’s been plaguing…

  • Radical Group Demands Gibberish as National Language

    Radical Group Demands Gibberish as National Language

    SEATTLE-Emboldened by recent protests and other civic activity, the local Seattle branch of TrePooFA! (formerly “Use Your Words Properly”) have made several demands of Mayor Durkan earlier this week. The most controversial was the demand to change the official language of Seattle from English to Gibberish citing the English language as violent, non-inclusive and offensive.…

  • A Monotonous Spew

    A Monotonous Spew

    Warning: The post is mainly a spew of me trying to figure stuff out. * I walk into the kitchen and go to the right side of the sink. In front of me, in a perfect line, I line up my green water glass on the left, my juice glass In the middle and my…

  • The Two Minds of Karin

    The Two Minds of Karin

    Yesterday, I was on my after-lunch walk, heading south on Palatine, when I noticed up ahead of me, on 65th street, a march was going on. I froze. You see, I have issues with groups. PTSD actually. People in groups, shouting, being angry or violent, trigger my PTSD. It’s even worse now since I saw…

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