behind a door or in the dark

The engine of sex is its secrecy.

cannon shot

The kind of person who if shot out of a cannon would come walking back into view with his pants legs tattered and smoldering but otherwise unscathed.

i'm back

That’s enough about me, but have you met my alter ego?

insufficient belief

The fanatic believer proves the vacancy of his/her religion by being unable to leave the rest of us alone.

frozen treat

He tried to trademark the name ‘Melting Glacier Slushy’.

expansive expense

Military spending is never ending.

crawling forward

A mother released her infant to crawl across the battlefield.

blindly noble

One can only be noble when no one is looking.

freud field day

Your father was so distant you called him “Farther.”

sticks together

Glut is the glue of the consumerist society.

distance runners

The Boston Marathon terrorists made what was always a great race into a secular crusade.

sandwich board

Is it fashion or wearable advertising?

self knowledge

You began to suspect that the self was just a thought experiment.

food dilemma

To clean one’s plate so as not to waste food; or to leave a few morsels as testament to our excess.

word origin

A word’s ontology is its meaning.

dialed in

Not a dialectic but a dial that can be turned/tuned to many viewpoints. There is almost no viewpoint that can’t be turned one-hundred and eighty degrees and argued with equal vigor and result from its opposite side. But it’s probably truer to say, though certain binary concepts and themes are often convenient, that every argument is but a point on a dial where the needle can be turned to register its value.

dispersive mind

I know quite a little about many things.