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  • Second-hand Information

    Most of my information, my knowledge, is second hand. I know Venezuela exists because I have been there – but my knowledge of Viet Nam comes from other people, their spoken stories and written ones. The world is too big to have a preponderance of experience. I’m looking at the photographs and videos posted on Read more

  • The Broken Radio

    It was a day that wound up highly scheduled – which is unusual for a retired guy. Renata had a dental appointment at 9:15, mine was at 10, and then we wound up with babysitting duties for the youngest grandson. Despite hanging out in the dentist’s reception room for a couple of hours, he was Read more

  • Weather Changes – And Climate Does Too

    I’m looking at the ten day forecast – basically rain and above freezing. The precipitation side matches the NOAA long-term outlook, while the temperatures do not. Still, the national outlook suggests that the lines on NOAA’s map just wound up a few miles off. Weather forecasting is a science where errors are not uncommon – Read more

  • Can’t Be Unseen

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  • A Tea Party For The Left?

    I was reading the Liberal Patriot. The first sentence was “Democrats must first come to terms with Americans’ strong distrust of government.” The third paragraph went a bit farther: ” Progressives by definition are supposed to be invested in making government work and proving the value of a more active state. For insurgents who have made Read more

  • Does Dropping in Social Class Increase Socialism’s Appeal?

    I saw these quotes and graphs on Instapundit: “Those born in a high social class and who have inherent low ability, and thus fall a social class, are the most resentful and vocal. They also are the least impactful people on long term trends, yet are deceptive in their overcrowding of the present zeitgeist.” Cremieux Read more