Author: Uncle Josh

Uncle Josh Dreams of Harlan Ellison

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I woke up this morning dreaming of Harlan Ellison. I never met the man but I think I have worked with people who have met him. My first exposure to Ellison was in my high school days in the 1980’s when I wrote descriptive vignettes for an English class, enjoyed them, and kept writing them. …

Uncle Josh on the Six Words again

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I started a project earlier this year about Six Words, It kind of went away as I got distracted but I have been thinking about them, and today I answered a question or Reddit that brought them back to the forefront. Ultimately the question was about reputation. At least my answer was about reputation. For …

Uncle Josh on Canons

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I read this Reactor.com article about how there is “no canon in Tolkien”. It’s been sitting in my head ever since. I have also been one of those people who worried that a TV show or movie was fundamentally changing the canon of some intellectual property. I am changing in how I view these things, …

Uncle Josh on his writing career

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It is November, which means novel-writing month for many, even though the NaNoWriMo organization has fallen apart and seems to have no desire to put itself together again. I can sympathize with that. I am, as of today, close to 20,000 words behind the goal, with most of my words going to various projects, not …

Uncle Josh on the Wealth Tax

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My mind was all over the place today, and I know with the next president there is no way on God’s blue earth we’ll see a wealth tax in this country, but I wanted to get to grips with it and understand it. The detractors (i.e. billionaires) who argued against it claim it would bankrupt …

Uncle Josh is Scared

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There are only a few times in my life I have felt this bad about everything: September 11 2021, 2016, and 2024. The last time Leader Dearest was in charge he had people who actually understood how the country worked with some respect for the rule of law. They all told us not to give …

Uncle Josh Sees the Northern Lights

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So the sun farted, for lack of a better term, and the intertubes were aflutter with the idea that people at lower latitudes could see the northern lights. The only real problem with the whole thing is that we’d have to stay up way past our bedtimes and maybe drive out of the city to …

Uncle Josh Fills out another Scare Tactic

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Did I say “scare tactic”? I meant survey. I have in my mailbox yet another “survey” from Hillsdale College. I signed up for their stuff years ago when I wanted to understand the conservative mindset from more than the mockery of Jon Stewart,  John Oliver, and Peter Sagal. They have traced me through two moves …

Uncle Josh on Wisdom

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(This is a follow up to Six Words and Honest.) The original key phrase to this word was no foolish statements and as I begin this process, I don’t know exactly what I meant, especially considering what I thought about in the Honest discussion and the overall goal of this project to stop complaining and work …

Uncle Josh on Honesty

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The first word I came up with in the Six Words exercise was Honest. The phrase I attached to this was *No False Statements*. This is probably easier to manage that the positive for: *Always tell the truth*. Honesty intersects with the cardinal virtues in the following ways: Courage – sometimes it requires courage to …