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Fan Shaming Be Damned
Daily Random Shit for 2016-04-01: Fan Shaming Be Damned A female friend posted this article, saying that most of her male friends aren’t even into sports… That popped a balloon for me… My response: Stereotypes be damned, shaming someone who prefers sports versus foreign films be damned. They’re not mutually exclusive. There’s room for […]
MoreBlame Fail
Daily Random Sh*t for 2016-03-24 The stupid hurts. I think I’ll confront a random Catholic about the inquisition, a random German about World War II, a random Afrikaans about Apartheid, a random Japanese person about the Rape of Nanking, and random twenty-dollar bill about The Trail of Tears… That makes sense. media-credit: @MatthewDoyle31 – Twitter Post by […]
MorePresidential Compassion & The Story We Tell Ourselves
Daily Random Shit for 2016-02-07: Presidential Compassion & The Story We Tell Ourselves I’ve seen this photo in my Facebook feed over the years, posted as example of how George W was a much more compassionate man than the much hated current president. Whether Mr. Bush, Jr. is a compassionate man, I have no real […]
MoreCurt Schilling & Whether to Fight with Internet Trolls
I felt prompted to post the following comment on the website of one of my favorite daily podcasts, The Morning Stream (episode 777), after the hosts discussed the controversy after friend of the show, Curt Schilling, took a hard approaching to dealing with threatening comments made by online trolls directed at Schilling and his daughter […]
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The Threat the Internet Represents to What We Value in Life
Back from California, I had a great brief visit with family after a wonderful return to Macworld. During my family stay I spent some time doing the tech-support thing and got some work done bouncing between whatever computer I was working on, my MacBook air, iPad and iPhone. My niece exclaimed at one point, “how […]
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