The Conscientious Contrarian

We humans love to imagine things in opposition. Night/Day, Black/White, Good/Evil, Male/Female, Mainstream/Alternative, Either/Or...To Be or...

Does anybody else see the absurdity of this bizarre party thing? Left? Right? What does that mean? It's like the people in Gulliver'...

Equinox. Equal Night. Equal parts of dark and light. It's funny, isn't it? How religious holidays are centered around the geological...

I'm extremely spiritual and metaphysical. I revel in the woo-woo. But enough is enouph. The saying “It's all good” bothers me. It...

The religious right loves to use Nature when they think it supports their agenda, while trashing it the rest of the time. They say homosexua...

A domesticated species is one whose body and behavior has been specifically modified. Spastic, neurotic humanity is as much a victim of anim...

I was in my early 20's when I first started noticing something. I was meeting these people...not in great hordes, mind you, just one or ...

We've really taken that Genesis story to heart. You know the one I mean, where we're instructed to not eat from the Tree of Knowledg...

Animism is the “primitive” belief that everybody, every animal, vegetable and mineral is sacred. That seems naïve to the current mind-set, i...

I once scared off a threatening, would-be bad guy by turning his verbal abuse back on him. I screamed at him with righteous indignation. W...

Menopause is great. Fierce. Powerful. Wild and tumultuous. It's a whole new version of yourself, emerging from the inside out, like a bu...

The whole thing is ridiculous. I have a much better idea. First of all, instead of it's being the highest, most prestigious and powerfu...

This One-Man-One-Woman crap is really annoying. Religious fanatics spew it incessantly, they think , to prove their point about gayness bei...

It's not easy being an artist! I tried so hard not to be. But the Demon Art pursued. It finally grabbed me by the collar, threw me up ag...