Welcome to the Drunken Mumbler…

A blog for Men, with facts, fiction, and mental health tips strewn in with rambling thoughts and a dose of bullshit. Everything here will not be completely coherent or without contradiction – that’s kinda’ the point. This is the examination toward an authentic life. Cheers.


 

Intentionality Is Not Enough

Intentionality Is Not Enough

I have this habit of trying to systematize and create models for how I think about things and ideally cause spurring thought to action more effective.   I thought I had things pretty neatly structured with how I make use of the concept of ‘intentionality’. I...

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Innovation?

Innovation?

Yes, this is another rant post. Perhaps I need to go back to COVID lockdown mode and avoid the world, as my irritation meter seems permanently stuck on a high setting.   Okay, Carmel Cold-Brew M&M’s…   I truly wish this were a photoshopped image above....

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Media Rant

Media Rant

"Welcome Welcome." "We have a big show for you today." If you are chuckling to yourself you are aware that this is the daily greeting from the CBS morning news show.   “Welcome, welcome” Really, Really? Isn’t one welcome enough enough? By supplying a second...

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Bag Hanging 101

Bag Hanging 101

Some ramblings on Aesthetics vs Practicality Perhaps this is a rather thinly-veiled attempt to justify my obsessiveness versus an actual intellectual consideration, but here goes. Recently, I was tasked with putting up hooks for several bags. When I say bags I mean a...

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Evolutionary Biology, something missing?

Evolutionary Biology, something missing?

What could possibly be missing from an explanation of all explanations? Isn't an explanatory model that offers an explanation for anything just great? Well, not really. I’m pretty burned out on the evolutionary biological explanation for every damn trait, behavior,...

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I’ll Take Distraction for the Win

I’ll Take Distraction for the Win

So much of the talk now is about how ‘bad’ distraction is for us. How we need to focus more, be more present, stop and smell the roses because hey, we only go around once right? Well yea that last part is true but distraction is not all that bad. In fact, it’s better...

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Bad Gratitude

Bad Gratitude

In another blog post I wrote about the need for acceptance to fully understand and express our gratitude.  In that post I talked about gratitude with regard to ‘positively-valenced situations in our lives.   But what about gratitude over ‘negatively-valenced’ or...

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The Myth of Absoluteness

The Myth of Absoluteness

We want answers. More specifically, we want ‘an’ answer. Why am I like this? What keeps me doing/not doing what I want to do and know I should do? Typically when asking these questions to ourselves we just assume there is ‘an’ answer. Perhaps we recognize there may be...

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Choice

Choice

I’ve always been taken by the concept of choice. That may sound odd. After all how much thought can be put into what constitutes a choice or the act of choosing. It’s simply the determination of one option over another - right?   Well maybe it does practically...

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Regret, Part 2

Regret, Part 2

I have a slew of blog posts in various stages of completion and sitting down to determine which post to complete next, I was struck that I have a Regret 1 sitting out there without a Regret 2. So, here we go…   Recently I’ve given some thought to regret....

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