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Dec 14 2017
Tulips
Perhaps you’re not familiar with the concept. From around 1600 to 1643 tulips, imported originally from Turkey, became highly desirable commodities in the Netherlands which, at the same time, was awash in Gold and Silver from it’s extremely successful trading empire (at the time they had a larger fleet than either England or Spain). It’s …
Dec 14 2017
Language
So you remember that scene from the beginning of Age of Ultron where Captain America says “Language”? Well, we have a certain degree of restriction here. Not that any contributor should feel bound by it but my cousin’s two boys know that I write online and where, and on occasion she’s been known to read …
Dec 13 2017
Net Neutrality
Look, I’m convinced nobody reads what I write except my family, and them only sometimes. Even my Therapist (who should be monitoring as I’m clinically diagnosed with anxiety and depression) doesn’t tune in. TMC (when she’s being charitable) tries to convince me we have an awesome twitter audience full of movers and shakers. Ok. I …
Dec 12 2017
A Man Who Can’t Ride a Horse
I was on a skiing trip with the band and while I did in fact end up with all the other crippled kids in the back of the bus (a football line backer wacked into me at speed and opened up a foot long gash in my leg with his edges, I would have kept …
Dec 11 2017
Slavery Is Bad!
Maybe I’m too subtle. A historian destroys Roy Moore’s myth about ‘united’ black families during slavery History News Network, Raw Story 11 Dec 2017 At a campaign event in September, one of the few African Americans in the audience asked Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alabama, when he thought America …
Dec 11 2017
Graven Image
Umm… Let’s define traitor, shall we? Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. U.S. Constitution Article 3, Section 3 Fair enough. Now that we know what the rules are I ask you to consider whether Thomas Jonathan Jackson, …
Dec 08 2017
Ersatz: A Cheap Imitation of Inferior Quality
Actually, I was one of the founding members of that club. It was an elaborate spoof of all the other clubs. We used to turn out to cheer on the Debate and Swim Teams, show up for Chess Club matches. My Ersatz name was “The Pro From Dover”. It lasted 5 or 6 years and …
Dec 08 2017
Why Stephen Colbert is my favorite Late Night Host
#OscarsSoStephen Judge Hodgman Nice Lady OMG Dentures? Really?