Asleep and Awake Listen, do you want to know a secret? The government has been withholding it from us. When we are asleep, we are awake, and when we are awake, we are asleep. We have been bamboozled into thinking that in sleep we are not awake and when awake not asleep. Sheer propaganda and […]

John Lennon and Me John Lennon was assassinated near where I used to live. I used to live at West End Avenue and 73rd Street in Manhattan. The Dakota is on 72nd Street and Central Park West. I would walk by it all the time and always thought of him. The memorial to him is […]

Beatle Genius Big news: I have changed my opinion of the genius of the Beatles. I used to think that John and Paul were the true geniuses, with George and Ringo excellent but not at the same genius level. I now think that is wrong: George and Ringo were geniuses too! We need to distinguish […]

Counterfactuals In a world with less gravity, the birds would be huge. In a world with more gravity, only insects would fly. In a world with more light and plant predators, plants would have consciousness and advanced intelligence. In a world with greater water resistance, whales would be small. In a colder world, there would […]