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Posts Tagged ‘Personal’


Five Years Ago

Five years ago today I had the surgery that saved my life, but left me crippled. I wouldn’t leave the final hospital and start being an outpatient until October 30. I wrote a long account of it. I read it. It’s icky, and not really suitable for public consumption. I didn’t want the pity when [...]

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9/11, Ten Years Later

People more eloquent than I am will be writing of all of the details of the attack on America that happened on September 11, 2001, often remembered by the short form “9/11.” The media will be full of tributes and time lines, and that is as it should be. Others will look at how our [...]

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The Longest Pub Crawl of My Life

VodkaPundit tweeted “Two nights I never go out in public: St Paddy’s and New Year’s. #AmateurNight.” My mind immediately flashed back to the longest pub crawl in my life, which happened on a Saint Patrick’s Day night. One of the jobs I held in my misspent youth was a bus driver at a local charter [...]

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The Year I Led the Rose Parade

You know that you’re running REALLY late for the Rose Parade when you’re on a freeway in Pasadena and there is no traffic. Everybody is either at home avoiding the nightmare of tourist traffic, out of town avoiding the nightmare of tourist traffic, or at the parade themselves. On the other hand, the lack of traffic and the fact that 90% of traffic cops are manning road blocks or directing traffic somewhere means you can often make up for lost time.

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Fakers, and the People They Hurt

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been online since 1985, when we had to push the data uphill both ways in the snow. As Mark Twain reportedly said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” (Apparently he didn’t really say it.) A large chunk of the conservative community on Twitter and FaceBook have just heard [...]

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Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa Claus

Last year there was an e-card site called RebelChristmasCard2009.com. The domain registration has expired, and there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent 2010 site. But they did leave in their wake a video of Jack Bauer interrogating Santa Claus to prove that they were here once. Merry Christmas!

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Legislating Morality

To turn to my main point, liberty and anarchy are not the same thing. Without a framework of laws, there is no reason my neighbor can’t open a window and shoot me when I come home from shopping at 4 am and start lugging groceries inside because I forgot to turn off the radio that was blasting Vivaldi and then slammed the car doors & woke his wife.

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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 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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