BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Word of the Day | Dictionary.com

Word of the Day Dictionary.com: "heuristic\ hyoo-RIS-tik \ , adjective;
1. Serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation. 2. Encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error. 3. Of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods. 4. Denoting a rule of thumb for solving a problem without the exhaustive application of an algorithm"
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