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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
A hard and necessary realization
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I was almost 30 before I realized that I was not inherently good. Feeling good about yourself is a privilege, not a right. It is a privile...
Monday, October 16, 2017
Human Nature and the Death of Hope
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Self-styled realists remind us constantly that human nature has its ineradicable dark side. I can attest to that. Most people who know me ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Civilization by consent of the civilized
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Reading an article in the New Yorker about a white collar crime prosecution that was withdrawn against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. , it reso...
Monday, October 02, 2017
Thoughts, prayers, and argument
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Another lone gunman has raised the bar yet again for mass shootings in the USA. My employer's son was at Virginia Tech in 2007. He jus...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
A fascinating anniversary
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A little less than a year ago, I came home from a long day at work to discover that thieves had come into my house and stolen a bunch of thi...
Monday, September 25, 2017
The Crisis was Foretold
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For most of my 61 years, people have been discussing the various ways in which the human species was lurching toward destruction. Whether th...
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Roll the dice: Health care American style
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My wife is about to get out of the emergency room after several hours. She had some chest pains this morning, after I had left for work. She...
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