The UK’s National Health Service is struggling big time — I’m so glad we have the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. Healthcare that’s free for all at the point of use. That should be a fundamental human right for everyone. It baffles me why the United States still doesn’t have it. But our NHS is struggling badly. You…

And what this means for our sense of self — Have you heard about the Corpus Callosum? According to sciencedirect.com: “The corpus callosum is a large bundle of more than 200 million myelinated nerve fibers that connect the two brain hemispheres, permitting communication between the right and left sides of the brain.” Some people with epilepsy have the corpus callosum…

Part 3 of my hilarious series where I put the Bible through a thesaurus — This story is the sequel to these two: I Made the Bible Even More Insane Using a Thesaurus and Grammarly This was one of the most ridiculously pointless things I’ve doneedward-john.medium.com Disco Biscuit and Adult Female I put the story of Adam and Eve through a thesaurus and then Grammarly, and this total nonsense was the resultedward-john.medium.com

I put the story of Adam and Eve through a thesaurus and then Grammarly, and this total nonsense was the result. If there is a Hell, I’ll see you there. — So, after I put the first part of Genesis through a thesaurus, I decided to do Adam and Eve. For some reason, “Disco Biscuit” was one of the synonyms for Adam. I have no idea why but I went with it anyway. I took the text from this website and…

This was one of the most ridiculously pointless things I’ve done — I took the beginning part of Genesis from this website and transformed it into total nonsense. First, I used the thesaurus function in LibreOffice Writer to replace words with synonyms. Then I put the end result through Grammarly Premium. But I only accepted Grammarly’s specific suggestions, not those where it…

#3: When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there — I was recently listening to the Stuff You Should Know podcast episode on Satanism. It turns out that Satanism isn’t quite what I thought it was. …

Nothing like this has ever happened before… — You are having a bath all by yourself. Not that you normally have a bath with other people. I’m just saying, you are lying there all on your own. Wet. Hot. Steamy mirror. Thoughts of what you’ll eat for dinner. You didn’t lock the door because why would you bother…

People have to pass tests to do other important things, so why not this too? — I recently read Susie Kearley’s short piece in Unpopular Opinions about parenting: Pregnancy Should Be Banned Until All Children Have Loving Homes If I ruled the world…medium.com She makes a valid point that people should have to pass a test before getting pregnant. It makes sense, and here’s why: People need to pass tests to do other important things. For example:

Cymru: Fel Lloegr Ond Yn Llai, Yn Fwy Hardd a Gydag Arwyddion Dwyieithog — I love Wales. If you’re now thinking, “What is Wales?” I will briefly explain. It’s a small country joined onto the side of England. It’s part of the UK, which comprises four nations, the other two being Scotland and Northern Ireland. …