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First Posted 16-Jan-2015 2-Feb-2016, Richmond, Va.—It’s a bit curious to be editing this a year after I first posted it. At the time I wrote it I was a month into another job search. As was true last year I was one of those without an income and struggling toContinue Reading

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First Posted 16-Jan-2015 Leelah, you poor thing. Bless your heart. You died for no reason. The world will not be fixed, sorry. There were three words in Leelah’s suicide note that just stopped me dead, “Fix the World”. The world can’t be fixed. It doesn’t come correct. Trying to makeContinue Reading

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First Posted 19-May-2015 First, a couple quotes from my days with a sore ass in a melamine chair at college: Chaucer, at the start of The Wife of Bath’s Tale, “In the old days of King Arthur, of whom Britons speak great glory, this land was entirely filled with fairyContinue Reading

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First Posted 06-Aug-2015 I don’t want to be right about this. I want to be wrong. I want to be the idiot prophet who proclaims doom on a sign while walking down Market Street in San Francisco and becomes a photo-op. That way, what I fear, won’t happen. I’ll justContinue Reading

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So, no kidding there are assholes and you can arrange your life in ways that push away all others so only the assholes are left. There are self-help books and whole bunches of fans of “The Law of Attraction“. It’s old news, that you get what you give. If youContinue Reading

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This is funny to me. Siderea describes asshole filters here. She finds it epiphanic that there are assholes afoot and that you can behave in ways that filter out other people to leave only the assholes. Siderea, baby, hey, yeah, uhm, I’m one of those, one who would be leftContinue Reading