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Fred Rogers
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-hero-esq1198/I will always marvel at the greatness of this man.
Solutions for Facebook and Google
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/how-to-fix-facebook-before-it-fixes-us/
Violence and football
Football is violent and players wish the league would simply own that truth. - via Bleacher Report
Comcast fires 500
https://apple.news/ApMhXvBNiSjeiXWgll0DvqAAs Comcast pushed for tax cut, fired employees had to sign NDAs to get severance.Well, this sounds like Comcast.
A nation devolves
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-americaOver the course of 2017, both in Congress and in the executive branch, we have watched the task of government devolve into the full-scale looting of America.Come 2020, the Democrats are going to need to undo all this mess. They won’t be able to.
Matt Damon, the Martian
https://apple.news/ADwOIsMWfQBOXSG24N8aGoQWhile appearing on Popcorn with Peter Travers on Wednesday, Damon suggested all sexual misconduct allegations shouldn't be treated with the same ferocity. Damon made the statement while referencing the harassment and assault allegations that have recently been made against Hollywood heavy hitters like Harvey...
Republicans finish polishing the turd
The GOP tax bill, written in haste and with no public input other than what special interests and wealthy donors can buy, is an awful piece of legislation. It subverts if not destroys the Affordable Care Act and costs between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion over 10 years PLUS it provides permanent tax breaks to our corporate overlords (from 35% to 21%). Most...
Most harmful jobs
https://80000hours.org/2015/08/what-are-the-10-most-harmful-jobs/A decent list (or indecent if you prefer).
Security Theater, revisited
https://apple.news/AXtb-ziCfSUW-XMMBEie45wLatest investigation results were not disclosed, but it sounds like a rehash of 2015:In 2015, the then-acting head of the TSA, Melvin Carraway, was reassigned after an internal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security found sceening failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports.Screeners did not...
Meet the Deplorables
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800They don’t mind his intemperate tweets. They don’t mind the specter of scandal, which they dismiss as trifling nonsense. They don’t mind his nuclear saber-rattling with North Korea, saying they feel safer under Trump than they did under Obama. And...
Essays
Copyright, Copywrong
A quick legal primer for those venturing into the world of online authoring. A public service announcement from yours truly, hereby fullfilling most of my court-ordered community service hours. Can you afford to pass it up? A potential $100,000 fine says, "no." Confusion Aplenty There seems to be widespread confusion on the Internet these days. No, I'm not talking about Clinton's Kosovo policy (though I certainly could have been, couldn't I?). I'm referring those wonderful...
Online Love, Online Hate
Don't hate me for trying to be the best friend I can be. Hate me for other, more substantive reasons like my failure to floss daily. Rules for email engagement. Ignore these at your peril. If I've told you to read this, there's a reason, and you're it. An Open Letter to Some of My Friends I like you. Okay, well, I'll admit it: I love you. Not in the same head-over-heels way I do my wife, the Pittsburgh Steelers or Macintosh computers (and not necessarily in that order!...
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds 2
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, my brain returns to fan the flames of discontent while leaping off the bridge of rational thought and into the black night of a thousand mixed metaphors. Extra vitrol, no charge. Regarding the current NATO attacks on Kosovo, President Clinton talking "moral imperatives" is like Bill Cosby's Fat Albert advocating a diet plan for the marathon runners: There's simply no credibility. Is Clinton the worst foreign policy...
Freedom to be Stupid
My take on Hate Crime Laws and why they're bad idea numero uno. Saying what I think and thinking what I say have never been more dangerous. Or incomprehensible. Introduction One of the organizing principles of every civilized society is that each individual has an inalienable right to believe the most ludicrous nonsense there is. I'm not kidding. It's been codified numerous ways, the most famous probably being the First Amendment's freedom of religion and speech clauses and...