Wednesday, December 21, 2016

It Will Not Stop Part 3: The Revisionists

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     Stop! Stop! Danger Will Robinson!      Just a friendly heads-up from your Curmudgeon: This piece will end with some highly impolite l...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

It Will Not Stop Part 2: Retribution As Political Outreach

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     Do you remember Brendan Eich? How about Sweet Cakes By Melissa? And how could anyone forget the ambushing of Memories Pizza?      T...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

It Will Not Stop

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     Therefore, we mustn’t expect it to.      (Yes, yes, I know I’m not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition, but it’s Monday. Sho...
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Sunday, December 18, 2016

When Good People Do Bad Things

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     Yes, it’s a play of sorts on the title of this book. It was a very popular “inspirational” when it was first published. However, as th...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Broken Pincers

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     There’s some absolutely brilliant analysis and commentary going on just now, stemming from the Trump election victory and the reactions...
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Friday, December 16, 2016

A Little Morning Music

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     It being the Christmas season, and my morning being a bit busier than usual, in place of my usual morning tirade, please enjoy the foll...
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Conversations

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FWP: Did you ever wish you hadn’t noticed something? CSO: Like what? FWP: Well, just yesterday I noticed that “O Holy Night” goes perf...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Learning The Limits

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     Despite my own libertarian inclinations, I frequently find myself at odds with persons who regard libertarianism as the be-all and end-...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

A Little Morning Music

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     Once again, from Ralph McTell’s early album “You Well Meaning Brought Me Here:”

Sketches From The Collapse

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     The days come and go, as do my moods. Some mornings the news is bad enough to make me scream “Get it over with, already!” This is one s...
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Conversations

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FWP: (glances at mirror) GAAAAHHHH! That face! CSO: What face? FWP: (points at own reflection) That one! CSO: What’s so bad about it?...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The Power Of Story

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     I’ve just received yet another inquiry – yes, I get a lot of them – from a reader of the op-eds that have appeared here and elsewhere,...
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What We Want

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Number Six: Where am I? Number Two: In the Village. Number Six: What do you want? Number Two: Information. Number Six: Whose side a...
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Great headlines.

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" Second Russo-Japanese War Inevitable After Putin Refuses Free Puppy ."
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Great headlines.

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" New CNN Policy: All Non-English Words Spoken in Aleppo Translate to 'Assad Barrel Bombs Babies.' "
Monday, December 12, 2016

Where’s The Evidence?

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     At this point, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and several lesser organs of the Media Titans That Were are fluttering their ...
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Double Standards Dept.

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     Remember how the press reacted to any mention of Chelsea Clinton, or of Malia or Sasha Obama, from the Right? That didn’t happen often ...

Domesticana

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     Mondays are not suited to heavy sociopolitical commentary. Oh, I’m sure I’ll manage a little, somewhat later in the day, but right now ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Wealth And Envy

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     Some years ago there was a movie titled The Gods Must Be Crazy. It concerned a tribe in the Kalahari desert that has essentially nothi...
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