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On Being Funny
According to the plan, this blog was supposed to be funny. I know. It’s very hard, trying to be witty. I might have some success if I took my time, but this is supposed to be…
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On the Economy
Two days ago, in terms of population, the world’s second-largest economy was four times the size of the largest. Even now, though China has overtaken the USA, there hasn’t really been any change…
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On Meekness
“When I was green and blossomed in the SpringI was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.” Allen Grossman. I saw these words a couple of weeks ago. The poem didn’t connect with me, but I thought…
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On the Brokenness of Things
Once in a while you happen to see some random commonplace thing without the filter of your experience, and it looks all wrong. It happens quite often with words- all of a sudden the spelling…
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On Noise
Space. The trotros have got me thinking about space a lot these days. Stars are in space. Stars are balls of fire. There are as many of them as there are grains of sand on…
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On Trotros
Civilization as we’ve known it in the urban, metropolitan, Western sense, is defined by one resource above all others: space. A very good percentage of our innovation goes to maximize space: the skyscrapers, the…
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On Culture
I wore a very nice shirt on Friday. Everybody kept telling me. They didn’t say “You look nice” just “Nice shirt!” (One notices the difference after the third or fourth instance.) I wore this uncharacteristically…
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On Democracy and Politics
I just found an old Tom Hanks interview, part of his publicity work for ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’. It got me thinking about political dramas in general. There’s been some good ones recently. ‘Broken…
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On Conflict
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding? It doesn’t stand a chance, unless we all get some at once. Kind of like the Swedish with their Dagen H. In every other scenario, the first…