I’ve never been one to place much stock in voodoo or ancient curses or the like. Nor am I a superstitious person. Sports people, though, tend to be more superstitious […]
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Dear Ignorant DJ: STOP Playing “Sweet Home Alabama”
My wife and I were at a recent street festival in Prague, Czech Republic. A DJ was playing standard mainstream music for the masses when suddenly the distinctive opening riff […]
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Missed Opportunities
Missed Opportunities The best way to remedy past missed opportunities is to not miss today’s opportunities. No sense in bemoaning the past and the mistakes you made. Look instead toward […]
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Multi-Spam Marketing or How to Get Rich By Spamming Others
It’s weird, I know, but I enjoy spam e-mails. They provide insights into the human psyche, revealing what people want and fear, and how other people try to exploit those […]
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“Straight Pride?” Ummm… What?
A news article today mentioned that there was some sort of march and rally called “Straight Pride” in Boston. It wasn’t published in The Onion, so it must be true, […]
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A Brief Exchange About What Israel Represents
I recently had this exchange with a Jewish friend about Zionism and Israel. In italics is his question/statement and below is my response. This brief exchange in no way solves […]
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Boris And The Home Stretch of The True Brexit Plan
Update on a story originally published on 13 Feb. 2019. The No-Deal Brexit Conspiracy is alive and well. All continues to unfold as planned. First, the earlier article that predicated […]
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The Memeocene: Memes and Humanity’s New Epoch
As human population and technology grows, there is increasing talk that we have entered a new epoch—the anthropocene or epoch of humans. The idea behind the appellation is to […]
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I Am a Nobody Doing Something in the Music Industry
You don’t know my name. Much of that is my fault—I am not one to put my own name out there. It’s “Douglas” by the way. But I have been […]
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What Lurks Behind Conspiracy Theories?
. Some people, despite all proof to the contrary, believe the moon landings were faked. How can we understand this? They aren’t all asylum inmates wearing tin foil hats in […]
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