New Year
Jan07

New Year

I started this New Year off on a low note: I almost died. It wasn’t an adventurous death either, caused by some last minute attempt to live life to the fullest that I keep on meaning to do the other 364 days of the year. Nor was it a surprise blast from a car, or plane, or rogue bullet meant for someone more deserving, giving a tragic ‘wrong place, wrong time’ eulogy. The culprit was quite well known to me and rather boring in the...

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My Parents Have Bruises On Their Hands
Aug27

My Parents Have Bruises On Their Hands

The statement itself seems to beg an interesting story, likely about a fight.  To clear it up immediately, it’s not a statement about abuse. I think my father might have spanked me once as an adolescent, and if it meant that much to him, I likely earned it. In a sense, the statement is about a fight, one to the absolute last. It has nothing to do with punching though, or standing over fallen opposition. It’s the fight my parents are...

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Religious Southpaw
Jul10

Religious Southpaw

  Orthodoxy is fascinating to me. Really because of how confusing is the meaning. At its core, orthodoxy is an adherence to rules, or perhaps even an inability to break them. Someone who knows the particular mores of a system so well, and abides by them, in a manner that shows a resolve deeper than that majority, is said to be orthodox. Fighting styles are said to be orthodox and unorthodox, depending on a particular set of...

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For Arguments Sake
Jun18

For Arguments Sake

Ain’t no secret, I loves me some arugin’.   I also love a good story. So, here’s a little bit of both.   My favorite topic to argue is religion and I do it as often as I can. Since I was about 14 or 15, I have more than less been an agnostic (I’ll veer into Atheist if I happen to be in a particularly nasty funk). Funny enough though, I’m never really outspoken on my own particular belief structure unless I’m deconstructing...

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NSA Outrage
Jun17

NSA Outrage

  Where’s the outrage? The news media is atwitter with the revelation that the NSA is keeping tabs on all us honest hard-working Americans. And, to hear them tell it, it’s a political shit storm of umbrage. Americans are furious that their elected leaders would not only invade their privacy, but would do so on such a grand scale. Or so, once again, the media would like to have us believe. The problem with their story is a simple...

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Internships (or, Get me some coffee Bitch!)
May24

Internships (or, Get me some coffee Bitch!)

  The question of interns is extremely tricky. On the one hand, it makes an indentured servant class out of the young and indebted when they have the most energy and are most eager to offer new ideas. On the other hand, most college graduates don’t know their asses from a hole in the ground and have very limited life experience, so they aren’t the most helpful people to have around. In an ideal world, the intern is given...

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