“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
Three hundred and sixty-six days ago I almost died while sitting in a parking lot and trying to decide if I should try to get up to go in and collect the pizza we had ordered. My heart was jackknifing from 20 beats per minute to 200. The EMT saved my life. A few weeks later, wires pushed through a vein burned the circuit in my heart that had almost […]
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It is over now. Minutes after they captured Danilo Cavalcante, I counted 15 police vehicles passing our house heading back to their home barracks. I awoke at 1:00 am on the morning of the 12th to flashing lights. From the windows of my house, I could see 7 PSP vehicles – at first light, men and women in uniform with AR-15’s in slings stopping every car for a look-see. Helicopters, […]
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This is the equivalent to standing on a treeless plain and shouting Stop! to a storm that fills all of the horizon and is coming my way. Once more the tech edge lords have given us a tool that will make our lives easier and render us more half-witted than we have already become. I’m seeing more articles from literate individuals who someone taught how to write proclaiming the liberation […]
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My movie list has evolved as I have aged. The ones I’ve left behind from 12 years ago have not shifted from my esteem. It’s just that others have been added that are more contemporary, and I’ve promised myself to keep to 40 so that I must make choices. This is a partial description of my tastes: I cannot bear Marvel movies or their ilk. They are boredom squared for […]
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