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Category Archives: For Your Education
The Possibility Of Ridiculous Outcomes
Thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-six days. That’s how long it took. “Lockdown” had drifted from “prisoners“, to “minors“, to “everyone in Boston“. Comparing Columbine to Boston shows it expanded from “a school building” to “a metropolitan area” and from “a few hours” to “a full day“. Continue reading
Posted in Curmudgeonly Gems of Insight
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There Is No Monopoly On Stupid; Part I
In about a thousand words I’m going to explain how I, the Curmudgeon, failed to be Adaptive and had a stupid thought. Really. I mean it! It all starts in 1958. In 1958 Ford Motor Company put all its weight … Continue reading
Posted in Chevy Volt, Curmudgeonly Gems of Insight
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Word For The Day: Ingalls
Ingalls – (Noun) A unit of measure by which all winter blizzards can be compared. Continue reading
Posted in Word For The Day
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Word for the day: Covetous Assholism
Covetous Assholism – (noun) The mistaken belief that you can claim moral superiority over another person if they have more money than you do. Especially if they’re very rich and you wish to redistribute their money to someone who is poor. Continue reading
I Learn Something New Every Day
Apparently I’m a fool. From the middle of nowhere comes a bit of trivia about which I’d been woefully misinformed. Continue reading
Posted in For Your Education
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Roger And Elaine
I believe I have participated in roughly 10,000 conversations exactly like this one. Continue reading
Posted in Where vocabulary goes to die
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Food Observation
I had the radio on while I was… forgive me John Galt… working my ass off. To my dismay the hippie banjo folk music I’d been grooving on gave way to hand wringing “news/tainment”. Damn it! Someday I’ll get decent … Continue reading
Nothing Good Can Come Of SB1813
Busybodies obsessively monitor people. Control freaks use the information that busybodies collect for their own nefarious ends. They all gravitate toward regulation. None care about you. Continue reading
Rosen/Romney Knock It Off
The following statement is true: A person who has never worked for someone else to draw a paycheck is largely unaware of what it’s like. Continue reading
The Unstoppable: Understanding The 1980′s
Part of the reason that folks in this decade fret about polar bears and student loans is because they’re not thinking about intercontinental ballistic missiles. Continue reading
