As good as new

I’m sure you’ve heard of the phrase ‘as good as new.’ Sounds great, doesn’t it? But in reality is utterly fishy and disproportionally used by 2nd-hand car salesmen trying to sell you some wheels without an engine. Either something is ‘good’ or ‘new’, but never ‘as good as new.’

Force

Whenever I read ‘outcries about the use of excessive force’ I wonder whether people remember their history. There hasn’t been a time I can think of in which excessive force wasn’t a tool to be used to control minorities, foreign countries and/or entire populations. Freedom is not just a word, it is a true concept very few seem to fully comprehend.

Falloff – Fall off

What mesmerizes me is the uniqueness of light or the origin thereof. Its speed is unheard of and its determination to travel for billions of years unprecedented. However, what to make of light’s earthly falloff? Did that fall off the universe’s bandwagon of orderly chaos?