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Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category


Mine Rescues

The first miner from the collapsed mine in Chile is up, and the capsule is headed down to get the next miner. I made a snide remark on Twitter, but I’m happy that he’s up. Watching news of mine disasters is something of a family preoccupation. My mother’s family comes from the coal mining region along [...]

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The Internet Remembers Everything

The Internet remembers everything. In particular, even if I had made an effort to stuff something I said on Twitter last week down the memory hole there would still be a record of it. So before I start on my next post, a bit of air clearing is probably in order. Last week a discussion [...]

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Tucker Carlson’s Retro-Cranial Inversion Paints a Tax Bullseye on Bloggers

The Daily Caller has posted a story that accuses half of the conservative blogosphere of taking money from partisan sources for blogging. It’s a particularly bad time to imply that bloggers have lots of money as Philadelphia has decided that bloggers in that city must pay a $300 tax. Instead of defending the freedom of [...]

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The Magical Internet Falls Short

Life online has usually been a magical playground for me since 1985, when I got my first manual dial modem. Over that quarter of a century I’ve been lucky enough to meet, and be befriended by, a lot of different people from all over. I met my wife online, and we managed to get together [...]

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Birthday Thoughts

If I’ve survived till this post goes live I’ll be 56 years old. Though I’ve learned that you can’t take tomorrow for granted I’m going to make a leap of faith and schedule this post for 12:01 am my local time on my birthday. If I’m not around to read it then the joke will [...]

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Presidential Golfing Takes Your Eye Off the Ball

JammieWeariungFool features a picture of our current president out on the links again in this post. Those who keep track of such things say it’s the 44th time. Assuming I put the numbers in my calculator in the right order that works out to one golf game about every 1.8 weeks since becoming president. Unprecedented, right? Not [...]

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Civil Unions for Everyone!

Yesterday I wrote a tribute to my late wife on what would have been our anniversary. She was a special person, and I was lucky to know her, and to be loved by her. But right now I want to talk about how we got married, and how that could be applied to one of [...]

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Today Would Have Been Our Anniversary

Today would have been our anniversary As I’ve mentioned before, I met my wife back in the Dark Ages, using a Commodore 64 and a 300 bps modem. I first met her online in 1986, talked with her a lot in 1987, and married her in 1988. On July 30th, 1988. Someone who hadn’t been [...]

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