Note to readers (revised)

These raves and rants are updated from time to time -- for more meat and spice. Also, snucking in more quotes -- my own as well as others -- since it's more interesting to read quotes in context, whether inside or underneath the article, than to have a long list of quotes on a topic by themselves.

And, to invoke my bragging rights, my own quotes are as much world class as the ones you'd find in the expensive quotation books. That's a statement of fact. The difference is that nobody gives a damn about what a nobody says!

That's OK. I'm also partial to sayings by Shakespeare, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and even Frank Sinatra, although it's the intrinsic value of the saying that counts irrespective of who said it. A case of  pearls before swine?


And as far as my own time is concerned, I haven't run out of gas for sure. It's just that I've got other fish to fry -- by writing an e-book or two -- to earn a few coppers and extend my financial life. So I won't be writing blogs regularly each month.

I must also add that it does not matter if ten or a million people read my blogs. I'm just letting off steam which has been bottled up for about 60 years -- yes, 60 years -- and I'm quite happy and feeling lighter climbing onto a soap box on the Internet's Hyde Park or Times Square and airing my views to whoever's inclined to listen. No hustle, no hassle.

(Newspapers only run the religious baloney for politically-correct reasons, fear of loss of readership and to avoid provoking the violent religion-crazed spook junkies.)

Monetize my blog? You must be kidding! I don't think I can even get enough coins to buy a bag of popcorn once a month. Donation boxes? That's beggary, period. I must confess though that a real wood-and-glass donation box is a handy thing to raid when you're starving for a bowl of rice gruel! But that's theft, so forget about it.

Anyway, I'm extremely glad and grateful to Google for the free Blogger and Google+ -- they perfectly complement each other, like a showroom and the exhibits-- and that's all it matters.