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Gap

Train riders hear the warning from the incessant badgering of conductors and pre-recorded loops, reminding them to, “Mind the Gap!”  There’s an entire culture based on people who have a natural, (unnatural?), Letterman-esque gap in the middle of their upper teeth.  There’s the ‘gap year’ which has become an almost…

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L’Shana Tova

5784 Wasn’t it just 5643?

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Rules

We are inundated with rules for most of our lives…rules of the house, rules of the game, rules of the road.  Roberts wrote a bunch of rules to help maintain civility and order in both public and private gatherings.  There are religious rules and civic rules that we have elevated…

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Waste

I can’t think of any positive spin to put on waste.  I’m challenged, as well, to find examples of it for which humans are not directly responsible.  It comes in many forms:  food, natural resources, opportunity, space and most tragically and maybe encompassing all others, time.  Nearly all human activity…

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P01135809

First off, can we stop saying shit like, “everyone’s equal under the law”?  This week’s circus in Fulton County, GA was irrefutable evidence of what a load of crap that notion is…just ask any black jaywalker, who has been processed through that same facility, if their experience was anything like…

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Limerick

There once was a man/child from Queens Who was born of deep-pocketed means He grew up as a rapist and thief And then preposterously Commander-in-Chief He’ll soon be wearing fat orange prison jeans

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Explanation

In case anyone is confused by this week’s special election in Ohio, it was an attempt by the minority of Ohioans, sometimes called Republicans, to preemptively make it harder, (almost impossible), for the majority to democratically impose its Constitutional will.  43% of Tuesday’s voters, (guess who they were), chose to…

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Uncle!

Is that still a thing?  I don’t know where it came from, (not Googling it either), but it used to be a common expression of giving up.  I guess it’s gone out of style or maybe it doesn’t have a clever enough abbreviation to have made it into the texting…

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History

There’s a point in time, I guess, where history becomes educated conjecture rather than chronicled reportage.  But, even far past that demarcation, the reliability of studied archaeological and anthropological artifacts is deemed to be scholarly, accepted gospel.  Advances in carbon dating and the visual forensics of enhanced photogrammetry have allowed…

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WTF?

We’re done, right?  I mean, democracy and equality as a bold concept of governance.  247 years and we’re barely trying to make it work?  30 maybe 40% of us, Trump-huggers, want to tear it all down…not with the slightest clue of what they want, but with the indoctrinated, cultish determination…

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