Category: Article
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Sex, Rights, and Standards
Well crud, I always get grief and a lot of shame when I bring this topic up. Yet, as I am going to have either a stent or bypass tomorrow morning, this is as good as any to try to jump the divide of observations. This is a very crunchy time in America, as are…
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From One to Zero – Binary Bipeds
While pondering the word prompt “patience” from another page, the umpire-ical outlook on the natures of us that I tend to fall down took hold. As I examined my patience that existential door opened up a bit. I must be patient, because I, like many others in this society, in this world view, am still…
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Just as It Is
There is a bunch of soul searching going on in the country today. Whether it is to escape from the everyday trappings or because of them, things are always moving and changing, defining and redefining. It is happening just the way it’s supposed to, whether good or bad, meaningful or indifferent, just as it’s supposed…
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The Next World Order – Classes
One of the many areas of the world that will always be going through change is the classes of the population. At this moment some of those aspects are front and center and others are hidden rather well. From the Panama papers to the Wikileaks and every bit of hacking in between there are fewer…
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Basic Income – Digital Tribes
Yes, we are going to have to begin to think about this as a country and economic reality, but that isn’t where I am going here. Five appointments, one with the Dentist and four more Doctor’s visits. Paying bills and shopping, doing the laundry etc… There was my week. It is like that for most…
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Democracy’s Onion
There have been more than a few things in life that have been described using an onion as a metaphor. So why not use it to look at a symptom of this living today that may not be recognized. As much as I love to break things down to their microscopic bits and pieces, I…
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This is Not Your Past
My wife and I migrated into the discussion on guns we are having right now as a society. I had broken down or felt the urge to comment on a friends post and it was an instant mud pit, with the insults, ad hominem attacks and insinuations. I knew I shouldn’t have indulged in opening…
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The Next World Order – Sexes
In examining things that will shape and propel our civilization forward, it is seldom popular to examine them as they are happening in fear of shaping the messages or demonizing them. There are many factors and facets that are arranging themselves now, and in looking at how that may affect the future, some thinking remains…
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This Thing We Do
Let me preface this piece off first. It is just an observation of one person at this moment. It will upset and irritate some, and it may make some think a little bit more. It is not meant as an end all, but an opening possibly. To what is opening, that is up to you…
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The Name Above
Sometimes I wish people would ask me why I named this place “Tempests Follow?” It is something in my paper mess here that I wrote long ago. In short it means, with the winds of change, tempests follow. The roughest of seas become calm in time, the smoothest quick to turn rough as well. I…
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The Din and Brilliance
In this time of deep examination of not just myself but of my environs, the natural tendency I have to go into the existential aspects of things come out. Like a drunk trying to stand upright with a VR headset and Riding the Roller Coaster app; It can be fun, it can upset my stomach;…
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The Cowardly New World
There is one line from the old movies and literature that stands out at times. This brave new world has been used countless times in many stories. It is more than a pity that that same line cannot be used to describe our story, our times. There will always be a lack of context as…
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Beware the Labelmakers
How much did you eat this week? How many of those products had labels? How many of them did you fully read and comprehend? Did it say healthy? New? Better than before? There you have it, Politics ala carte. This majority of us claiming Liberal and Progressive titles, the minority holding fast to their monikers…
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The Parts of Our Sum
I am examining the fracturing, that foreboding feeling once more upsetting the bile of serenity. I am watching truth and lies, good and bad have its way with us and the dedication and commitment to our ideals fold away easily in the excitement of the moments. I hear keep your eyes on the prize and…