The Village Is Coming Back, Like It

One Of Life's Joys Was To Have Friends Who Gave You Reality Checks...who Would Call You On Your Crap Before It Rose So High You Drowned In It.

The Best Time To Act On This Was Decades Ago. The Second Best Time Is Now.

Indeed, The Maligned American Pastime Of Baseball May Be By-far The Greatest And Best Sport By One Criterion, When It Comes To Emulating And Training For Genuinely Useful Neolithic Skills! Think About It. The Game Consists Of Lots Of Patient Waiting And Watching (stalking), Throwing With Incredible Accuracy And Speed, Sprinting, Dodging... And Hitting Moving Objects Real Hard With Clubs! And Arguing. Hey, What Else Could You Possibly Need? Now, Tell Me, How Do Soccer Or Basketball Prepare You To Survive In The Wild, Hm?

I Hate The Whole übermensch, Superman Temptation That Pervades Science Fiction. I Believe No Protagonist Should Be So Competent, So Awe-inspiring, That A Committee Of 20 Really Hard-working, Intelligent People Couldn't Do The Same Thing.

Life Is Not Fair... Anyone Who Says It Is, Or Even That It Ought To Be, Is A Fool Or Worse.