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What is the Climate change debate really about?

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
political, Social Commentary, Uncategorized | No Comments »

It is not just right and proper for Americans to meet new cries of impending disaster with skepticism. It is the foundation upon which the strength of our country was borne. In the days preceding the Revolution, there were separatists frothing at the mouth for decades, hoping to tear down the walls of […]

Seeing things for what they are

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
racism, Social Commentary | No Comments »

Ok, so it might seem strange that a blog that only gets updated about every 9 months at the current rate should choose something as distant and seemingly trivial to my life as the current case of Henry Louis Gates Jr.  (I like this article best)
But his case brings out a lot of humanity.  The […]

Manners amid the masses

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Social Commentary, Uncategorized | No Comments »

So…I was looking over an article at ParentHack.com, and found myself compelled to post a comment.  I don’t often read there, let alone write, mostly because it seems to me that the population there is a peculiar subset of Us, that lives in this weird dreamworld where everything can be conquered with emotional duct tape […]

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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Social Commentary, Personal | 1 Comment »

And so it appears that, through a long and strange chain of events, I begin a blog. One would think, based on the fact that I am a technical consultant, that it would be about something - well - technical. But that’s not on the menu today. Today’s menu includes the behavior […]