Thursday, September 04, 2025

Poor Old Kadizzle stepped in it.

No one can create trouble for Kadizzle quite like Kadizzle. Once again, he finds himself tangled in a legal hassle. By court order, he cannot discuss the specifics, but he can reflect on the patterns that got him here.

For years, Kadizzle has repeated one mistake: thinking he could reason with people who are committed to being unreasonable. Social media, with its toxic brew of recycled lies and hardened positions, has been the perfect trap. Kadizzle stepped into it, thinking honesty and conversation could untangle things. Wrong again.

This isn’t the first time Kadizzle has been blindsided by a clash of realities. Over thirty years ago, while working at a coal mine in North Dakota, he wandered into a coffee break room. What began as a simple sit-down for a cup of coffee turned into an encounter he never forgot.

A woman entered, furious at the world, declaring ownership of a chair that belonged to no one. When Kadizzle reclaimed the seat, she spun around, knife in hand, and pressed it to his throat. Shaken, Kadizzle immediately documented the incident and sought verification from another witness. But to his surprise, the witness’s takeaway was that he had “irritated” her. It was a revelation: reality isn’t shared equally. Two people can watch the same scene and come away with wildly different truths.

Fast forward to today. Kadizzle is again caught in a situation where one version of events overshadows another. Details must remain unspoken for now, but the theme is the same: in a world divided by ideology, perspective, and personal agendas, truth is often the first casualty.

What Kadizzle has learned—sometimes painfully—is that reasoning with irrationality is like grabbing a chair in the wrong lunchroom. You might think it’s common ground, but to someone else, it’s a battlefield.



Wednesday, September 03, 2025

The Kindness of strangers

 Yesterday Kadizzle found himself in a bind. He was dropped off near Flagstaff while his partner went to hike inside a lava tunnel.  It did not take long before Kadizzle realized he did not have his wallet, and had no money with him. Kadizzle needed to get into downtown Flagstaff to conduct some business. The first solution seemed like hitch hiking. So out the thumb went. Kadizzle called his band to see if they could transfer money to him in Flagstaff. Answer was no. Being old and tired Kadizzle spotted a chair in the garbage someone was throwing out.  Why not sit on the chair with an outward thumb.  Sitting on the chair a nice young woman came out of here apartment with an expensive bottle of water. The nice young lady was concerned if Kadizzle was OK.  He was and thanked her profusely.  It took a little while and many potential rides went by.   An older white van slowed down and went past.  The van turned and came back. On old sod buster was driving and had stuff strewn everywhere. This was not a billionaire. Kadizzle was so thankful to the man and wanted to reward him. The old guy said he knew what it was like to be in a bind. Kadizzle got out at the bus stop.  Next problem, no bus fare.  Kadizzle decided to bum some money for bus fare.   A young guy with long hair eventually came along. Kadizzle did have a new pocket knife with him.  Kadizzle explained his mess the the young guy and offered to give him the pocket knife for bus fare.  The young man gave Kadizzle Bus fare that would provide him bus riding all day.  The young guy like everyone else insisted on free help.  

It was a great day for learning about the goodness of people. What really stood out was that it was poor people who helped the most. Kadizzle has found this trend, people who have seen hard times are so much nicer and generous than those who have never lived anything but the life of luxury. 

Once Kadizzle got to town on the bus a woman gave old Kadizzle some mixed up directions. Kadizzle got eventually to the place he needed to go,  but walked an extra mile to get there. 

At the very start of this adventure Kadizzle realized it would be a survey in humans helping humans.  Most people are good, and kind. Easily 80% of people will help you if you ask. The percentage of nasty people is small, but they make the world miserable.  Think about it. Driving on the freeway most people are reasonable, but there is always that one guy who is driving aggressively.  The mind concentrates on the aggressor, and forgets about all the people being decent. 

Think about the immigrants. 99% of the so called illegals in this country are kind wonderful people.  Who does Trump and his gang concentrate on?  A few bad people. Trump and the Republicans make insane claims that the majority of illegal people are rapist, murderers, and criminals.  It is just not true.   As humans we need to see other people as humans and work together.