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First Posted 26-Dec-2014 I owe my Dad an apology, again. When I was a kid I was so pissed off at him for buying me a stupid ukulele. Four strings, sounded like crap, and was strung so I could finger chords with my right hand. I’m missing part of myContinue Reading

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Anger feels good. It’s an adrenaline rush. You can aim it at a news story, get all fired up, tweet your friends, spend a few hours with a couple of hundred like-minded folk facing down riot police, good times. There are enough stories that reach the headlines about brutality byContinue Reading

Socialist Christ

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First Posted 30-Dec-2014 My Dad has become a troll. He does this thing at least once each time I visit him. He’ll throw a macro-aggressive statement out there to trigger me. Sometimes, when I was younger, I flung words back at him. These days, though, I’ve learned to dodge his rhetoricalContinue Reading

Happy New Year 2015

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First Posted 29-Dec-2014 So, it seems that an easy out in a space like this is to use WordPress to publish lists. Sort of like phoning in a blog post. You come up with a list of oh, 10 Ways to Win the Lottery, 10 Naked Celebrities or 10 SpectacularContinue Reading

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First Posted 04-Jan-2015 It is a rainy, sleepy Saturday as I type this. I’m halfway through the usual chores. I’ll punctuate the day with another nap. Then, to finish what I started–laundry being next. This thought, though, wouldn’t leave me alone: my frame of reference is as the black swanContinue Reading

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First Posted 07-Jan-2015 I’m confused because I was in Whole Foods again and reminded that parts of the store are conflicting for me. I have my new year’s resolutions like many this time of year. I need to lose 30lbs, save at least $2500.00, build an emergency fund, improve onContinue Reading

Bipolar

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First Posted 10-Jan-2015 The first version of this published this morning. Last night, as I worked on it, and this morning, this thought stuck to me, that some bad ideas are incredibly pernicious. They stick around through generations. My GrandDad’s core belief that he could find nirvana in an inventionContinue Reading

Socialism Educating Alan

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I put this in the “Not News” bucket. If you paid much attention in college you know almost everything in this post. You can safely ignore it. This story about Stuart Alsop is amusing: Tesla decides not to sell a car to a customer. Tell me that the community isContinue Reading

Chemistry Glass

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First Posted 11-Jan-2015 It was a pattern repeated. Wells would have an idea. It would be the one. This idea would pay big. He just needed funding. Not much, maybe a hundred grand or so. So he’d set about finding an investor. He was usually able to find one. ThenContinue Reading