Welcome! to The Billy Lee Pontificator,
or as the ancient Egyptians might have phrased it;
EE EE OOH EE ER ANEE EE (welcome to my writing tablet!)
I have no idea what I’m doing, but I hope my blog-site can be a place where family and friends will visit to pontificate freely about whatever is on our minds.
My vision is one where contemplation, reflection, and carefully crafted logic will live side by side with wild ideas and misspelled verbal excesses.
I hope my posts will get the brain juices flowing and inspire folks to add comments to befuddle, enrage and confuse anyone who reads them.
And while we’re on the subject, if some reader writes an article and wants to post it somewhere, please consider e-mailing it to me to post here, on my blog. What I’m saying is, people have an outlet to post more than 142 words if they need it — where they won’t be crowding out pictures of babies and birthday parties.
If you have something short and sweet, but longer than a tweet, consider posting it in the Speedos section. I’ll add a graphic to spice it up if you want. Or mosey on over to the Message Board and make an appeal or announcement to our readers.
Visit often. Please post long-winded comments on anything you find here. My writing tablet has a readership of two people and has the potential to grow beyond that. Make your voice heard. Pontificate!
Billy Lee (Jan. 17, 2014)
Random Reads:
Images & Pics Policy
It is the policy of TheBillyLeePontificator.com to place in articles and pages only those images and pictures which belong to Billy Lee or are in the public domain.
When Billy Lee started his blog on January 17, 2014, he used the blog as a kind of personal scrapbook. For most of the first year he illustrated his articles with images he downloaded during Google Internet searches. Since Google didn't identify which images were proprietary and which were public, it is possible some images on this web-site may belong to individuals who might not want them used by Billy Lee.
The Editorial Board is asking any individual who finds a proprietary image on this blog-site to contact us through the Reader's Comments section at the end of the article where the image appears, so that we may identify and remove it. Comments referring to an image will be read by Billy Lee but not published.
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The Billy Lee Process
Over two million people write and publish blogs on a regular basis in the United States. Each writer has their method and process. Some make a living from their blogs. They operate wide-open sites and try to boost readership to sell ads or products.
Others restrict access by requiring membership and a pass-code to get in. They operate like fraternities or secret clubs.
My blog is wide open, but I don't sell ads or products. My focus is about sharing ideas and absurdities for fun. As long as I have a readership of two people I'm going to continue.
I should mention that not long after I launched my blog a swarm of Asian bots from the women's apparel industry attacked my site, so I've had to add two minor restrictions. First, each comment is reviewed before posting---to make sure it's from a real person; and, second, we make sure comments are written in English or French, the two languages I can read. Otherwise, everyone comments freely. If your c...
Who is Billy Lee?
Billy Lee is a former machine design engineer, career Navy kid, anti-War activist, Francophile, amateur Egyptologist, math/physics hobbyist, and university grad.
He loves British-style Blues guitarists (like Joe Bonamassa & Jean-Pierre von Dach).
Whenever possible, he fights the good fight to not consume mass quantities of Kroger cherry pies or their chocolate chip cookies; Philadelphia cream cheese glop-spread on any crackers he can find; Little Caesar's $6 pizzas---slathered with Crazy Sauce; also, Crazy Richard's nutty peanut butter on brown bread soaked in Bonne Maman cherry preserves; and low-fat cottage cheese made crunchy with lightly-salted Lay's Potato Chips smashed in.
Married to Bevy Mae, Billy Lee is father to six adult children---three bio and three in-grafted---and grandpa to thirteen grandkids, including two born in Ethiopia.
Billy Lee is a Christian who loves Joe, Hillary, and Brittney.
Billy Lee is a lifelong pontificator who believes that civilizatio...
FINAL THOUGHTS
TIME TO DIE
I sinned against the man I loved who died.
I thought I'd have more time to sigh;
Delay the time when silence became the lie.
Time passed us by---an ally to our crime
That lives inside when all loves die
to make us cry and cry and cry.
Who knows why?
Love makes time for us to die.
I've failed at everything in life. What I learned is that it is possible to fail at everything and still find some happiness from time to time. I blame many failures on my own incompetence and bad choices. But also, people hate me.
It doesn't matter how much a person knows or how capable they are; unpopular people don't do well. People have pulled the rug out from under me many times; I never seem to be alert enough to anticipate what bad thing is coming next and how to avoid it. I've never been able to tell who my friends are, or who those folks are whose kindness is a mask they wear to disarm and humiliate me.
At age twelve, I found myself one weekend-day carefully sweeping out the...
Vacation Policy
VACATION POLICY
Until further notice, our entire staff of dedicated employees, sycophants, and apple-polishers will take their annual vacations during the month of June and the first half of July. This policy includes the Editorial Board. Vacations will be unpaid.
For the benefit of those in our organization who are hard of hearing, let me repeat.
VACATIONS ARE UNPAID !!!
It should be apparent to all but the most disgruntled that the unpaid nature of these vacations is more than compensated for by the generosity of their duration.
Billy Lee
Notice to readers:
During the Pontificator Staff vacation period, folks may continue to visit our site and post comments. Please allow up to six weeks for comment approval.
The Billy Lee SEO Policy
It is the policy of the Billy Lee Pontificator to not pay SEO fees (bribes?) for the "privilege" to appear in the search results of a web-service like Google.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is deployed, it seems to me, like hacker ransom-ware to try to force blog-site administrators to pay fees. Unless they pay fees, administrators can sometimes experience a drop in viewer hits on their sites.
For sites like the Pontificator, these fee demands are a good thing. By ignoring them, the Billy Lee Pontificator takes advantage of the machinations of search-engine companies like Traffic Power -- now banned by Google -- to make it unnecessary to password-protect our content.
Anyone who knows us and our site location still has the unencumbered access demanded by our readers. But pervasive SEO subscriptions by other blog-sites overwhelm malicious web-surfers who might visit our site by chance. We don't have to password-protect...
I enjoy your blog very much!
Love,
Your favorite cousin,
Marcia