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First Posted 10-Mar-2015 Netflix suggested a documentary about living on $1.00/day. I have it playing in another window behind the one I’m typing this post in. It is two young men, one from New York State and another from Seattle. They are typical for us, for Americans, college age, withContinue Reading

Trope Doll

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First Posted 07-Mar-2015 “Drip, drip, drip” has become a trope. Rush Limbaugh has used it repeatedly to refer to the slow bleed of leaked stories about classified information allegedly stored on private servers owned by Hillary Clinton. I decided to write about the word, “trope” after hearing it used byContinue Reading

Newspeak 1984

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First Posted 01-Mar-2015 Following is a list (yes, I’ve succumbed to the temptation to do lists. I’ll get back to prose soon enough) of words and their definitions. The torment of Liberals is revealed in their language. They say they are for the people yet their policies fatten the belliesContinue Reading

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Last week the news was agog with a law passed in Indiana declaring that government could not force someone to do something where that something conflicted with religious beliefs. The thing that really bugs me about the controversy is that it is a double standard. Here we are again whereContinue Reading

Meadow Filled with Black-eyed Susans

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#johnk. My buddy and I were kicking around the various malfunctions we suffer from/through with our kin. His Dad somehow picked up the “go away/come here” tactic of some women. It is a core belief of his that any relationship that feels like it is in “come here” mode willContinue Reading

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It’s Easter Sunday. In many places us lay folk will have listened to another sermon on the resurrection of Christ. It’s a marker on our calendar foretelling the annual blossoming of spring. There is an itch I know I shouldn’t scratch that has arisen today along with the hemlines ofContinue Reading

Maggots

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In high school and into my twenties I got a lot of play out of being the wise, protective father figure for shameless hussies with soft boundaries and a burning resentment for the absent/s.o.b. father. As long as she’d get nekkid and dance the horizontal bop with me I wasContinue Reading

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Some of you don’t need to read this. You know. Those that I hope read it are the neurotic, put the kid in the bubble, full, fierce, mama-bear, helicopter parent crowd. By now, being boomer parents, your kid should have gotten a day job and you can do the full-press,Continue Reading

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So, yeah, porn is some diminishing return. Oh, and parents, this one isn’t kid friendly. You probably want to either not read this or be ready to talk to your kids about it once you & they are done. Back to what I was saying–the first magazine or video rocksContinue Reading