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It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day as I type this on 18-Jan-2016. My dream is that we won’t wait to treat each other better. Do the small acts of kindness Mother Theresa spoke of. Be compassionate to all, always. The familiar things we all learn early and then somehow,Continue Reading

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First Posted 14-Aug-2015 I’ve spent the last 36 years living the same way. I get money, I spend money. I don’t really keep money. I treat money as if it is perishable. Sometimes, like now, I am blessed to have a job that pays well so there is a reliefContinue Reading

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It has its own logic. People are hungry. Feed them. Simple. Cops are killing young black men. Kill the cops. The 1% have too much and the 99% don’t have enough. Take from the 1% and give it to the 99%. From each according to his or her ability toContinue Reading

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First Posted 24-Aug-2015 The origin of this is my buddy’s “Poor Player’s Hour” in his blog. He left out a few things and that’s what prompted this post.  First, the rant by the dystopian nutcase happened while I was driving for Dianne Wallace’s, “Taxi Taxi”. I’d parked myself at CenterContinue Reading

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First Posted 04-Sep-2015 Some years ago I told my buddy James Rustler about a late night run to Sacramento from Berkeley while I was a member of Taxi Unlimited. The ride itself was uneventful, the best kind as a cab driver. My fare wasn’t very talkative. All I could getContinue Reading

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First Posted 19-Sep-2015 A couple of things, perhaps related. This week (19-Sep-2015) I was able to transfer to my savings the last payment toward an initial emergency fund. I have mixed feelings about this. I’m happy it’s there. I’m also bedeviled by a long list of minionous desires that cackleContinue Reading

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FUB Score You The Urban Dictionary defines “fubbing” in a much nastier way than my definition following. Go look it up if you don’t know. I defined a FUB as something one spends that gathers the ire of someone aware of the expenditure. It’s an ancronym that stands for F**kContinue Reading

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I need a break from yelling about the troubles of the world. For all our utopian urges, our itch to turn it all into glass and start over, our seasonal flip from overtly, insanely socialist to just a little socialist, troubles seem to hang around. I’m weary of the goodContinue Reading

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First Posted 24-Sept-2015 Our relationship to authority figures is symbiotic. They project a personality and we subliminally reflect it back in the way we behave. It’s not always overt. Sometimes it’s a subtle vibe, a mood that echoes some aspect of the personality of our authority figures. There is theContinue Reading