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First Posted 11-Dec-2014 When I was young, when (maybe not at the same time) I was down, calling a shelter or church social hall home, peril seemed imminent. If I didn’t handle something right then, trouble. A week was a long time. As I’ve aged, and as I’ve sought toContinue Reading

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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

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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

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

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

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First Posted 13-Jan-2015 Bob returns, “Thank you for calling MCI Worldcom Customer Service. My name is Bob. How may I make your day better?” 당신의 이름 은 당신이 머리 바보 기저귀 밥 하지 않습니다! 왜 내Interweb 를 해제 했는가?(Your name is not Bob, you diaper head idiot. Why did youContinue Reading

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First Posted 15-Jan-2015 So, I nicknamed somebody, “SumYung HotTea” to make a point. The character was a collage of folk I’ve known. I thought I was done with her. Not. It’s never good to try and go blow for blow with a writer who owns a domain. This is why:Continue Reading