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Ox tale soap
Posted on April 15, 2016 27 Comments
On April 1 I saw this headline in our local rag sheet. As is often the case, it dovetailed perfectly with the post that had been swirling in my head for today. If you only knew Stepford-like Santa Clarita, you would be rolling in the, well, wherever you are and could be rolling around, doubled […]
Fouls come home to roost
Posted on February 12, 2016 17 Comments
It’s déjà-vu all over again: Pat Buchanan vs Eugene McCarthy. And the powerful appeal to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs with the primitive emotions of fear and anger at its base is crowding out common sense and prudence. I am going to be blunt and hope we can handle it here as it is just too important to ignore […]
Behind the surface
Posted on November 15, 2013 18 Comments
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that looking merely at the surface of things as most of us do in our daily lives, will not lead us to understand the phenomena that underpin the workings of the world. While this is not welcome news, it actually explains why we are so easily misled by people with […]
hAvatar will e-travel
Posted on October 22, 2013 4 Comments
We were so exhausted Sunday night that we just collapsed in front of the TV, flipping the channels for something mindless yet not insipid. All the stuff I had DVRd was just too heavy. Then I realized I had a Bill Moyer’s episode taping, so we watched that. There was a long segment with Richard […]
Social immedia
Posted on October 11, 2013 9 Comments
A bit behind the curve, I forced myself to visit Reddit for the first time last week and am finally getting around to elaborating on a thought that has been developing over the past year. About four months ago, I had enough of Facebook. As I mentioned somewhere, I only joined Facebook in 2010, after […]
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