Global Warning
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. From the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, if such a thing can be said to have a viewpoint, the female body is designed to attract and retain, if possible, the male. Similarly, the male body has evolved to be sexually attractive to the female.
That is the way of the world. The way of primates and most all of the creatures on this planet, God or no. The human way.
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01-31-12
Word count: 1323
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. Strip the Human Race absolutely naked and what is left? It is the eye of other people that ruin us. [N1]
Although we enter the world most certainly without clothes, each and most every one of us lives in society that require us to be dressed. The clothes often wear us, rather than we, them.
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01-15-12
Word count: 1391
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. When in the course of human events … Sorry, that’s been used hasn’t it? What about We, The People — nope, even I have used that crutch far too many times.
The first thing you need when writing a column is a writer. All present and accounted for and seated at my laptop listening to the quintessential American composer Charles Ives.
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01-11-12
Word count: 1277
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. If you took all the money and assets from the top 1%, if you took the 1% life’s savings and everything they own, you still would not have near enough money to do everything the 99% want done without cost to them and theirs.
Taxing the rich or confiscating their assets isn’t going to work.
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01-01-12
Word count: 1315
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. There are many wonderful musicks written for the winter holidays. There are a lot of sappy, sentimental words said and written in the media. Perhaps we should discard outright all of it outright. The masses, the 99%, have no taste, after all. Not like us highly educated types.
Down with Christmas! Down with Hanukkah! Down with the Winter Holidays! We should be working on our manifestos and manuscripts. Something intellectually useful.
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12-25-11
Word count: 1168
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.I am by nature a political moderate; in olden times, before the extremes emerged to compete for a chokehold on America, I could be called a liberal Republican. At times I want to throw rocks at The Man; other times I would tell demonstrators they need a permit to demonstrate.
There aren’t a lot of liberal Republicans around, it seems. We appear to be a dying breed. And no one in either party seems willing to call themselves a (gack) moderate.
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12-18-11
Word count: 1326
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. The sea change came quickly once I made my decision. The ocean that crested above me passed, tumbling me towards the sandy beach. Life crashes all around us unfettered by our desires.
What you may intend and what may actually occur oft-times are two separate things. Agendas revise quickly. Life is much more fluid than any one of us might suspect. Certainly more fluid than what the experts would tell you. As the journey continues, even more changes will occur.
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12-11-11
Word count: 1237
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. When I was in my late teens and early twenties — large eyes, sweet smile and dimples on olive skin — both men and women hit on me in equal numbers.
I have dealt with sexual attraction since I was eleven and two thirteen year old girls pursued me around a public swimming pool. I grew used to being a target of desire and quickly learned how to deflect unwanted advances without deflating the emotions of anyone who might want me.
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12-04-11
Word count: 1228
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. All of us are human, some of us less so. Our species is plagued with humanoid raptors subsisting on the psychological flesh of fellow Homo Sapiens.
Well talonned and sharp tongued, the modern humanoid raptor cruises the internet, searching for victims he can terrorize. They often travel in packs.
Once they choose a truly human victim, the raptor humans attack without mercy.
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11-27-11
Word count: 1136
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. One hundred and fifty-five years before the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen united States of America, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a harvest feast in the autumn of 1621.
Wild fowl and venison were on the menu of a wild rumpus of a festival that lasted three days (well, wild for them).
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11-24-11
Word count: 1207
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. The American Presidential Election is twelve months off, four years after the last one, four years before the next one. At this point in time, as an independent moderate, I have no idea for which candidate I might vote.
But I will vote. I will make a choice, however distasteful, between two or three grievously flawed choices. I always do. I always will.
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11-20-11
Word count: 1187
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. Every three or four weeks I visit a salon at Harpers Ferry in Jefferson County, West Virginia, to have the fills refreshed on my nails. It’s a nice drive on an otherwise unencumbered weekend. [N1]
Sometimes, when there is an earthquake and then a hurricane perhaps, five weeks may pass between visits. The seasonal floods that Harpers Ferry is prone to might postpone my nails for six.
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11-13-11
Word count: 1515
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. All human families are dysfunctional. Get over it. Your own personal narrative is nothing special.
No matter what a family may look like on the outside to the casual observer, inside it is most likely a mess. Kick the can the family lives in, god only knows what rough beast might wake.
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10-30-11
Word count: 1303
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.I am not the poster girl for polio victims who somehow survived the scourge to limp through the rest of their lives. I am not the surviving post-op poster woman born transsexual raging against life’s unfairness.
It is true that I had polio at two or three that almost killed me before I really started and left me variously limping with a slightly atrophied left side and a slowness of left leg muscle that prevented me from being a world class athlete.
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10-16-11
Word count: 1332
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.I have an innate advantage as a columnist: what I write is seldom not published in some form by this website. True, my editor may reconstruct one of my columns to other purposes, but I seldom discard in its entirety what I write.
I may repurpose them myself, however, if I don’t like what I have written, but an author’s deconstruction and revision of her own work does not feel any bit like rejection.
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10-12-11
Word count: 1355
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.I have never been a joiner and I’m certainly no sheep. Even when young I seemed to be aware that there might be a Judas Goat at the head of the parade.
So I’ve most always made my own decisions, at least the ones allowed to me. All the mistakes are mine and I work very hard to make sure I don’t repeat them. All my mistakes tend to be new ones.
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10-05-11
Word count: 1582
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. People too often believe news that confirms their beliefs and only read those sources — websites, cable news, newspapers, magazines, journals, blogs, letters to the editor — that conform to those beliefs.
They suspect any news or science that cast doubts on their beliefs as fabrications by non-believers.
Recognize anyone?
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10-02-11
Word count: 1057
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. On the sidewalks of our city streets, normal men command women they don’t know to smile. These are not strange men, they are just a fact of every woman’s life.
Men will judge women. Perhaps it’s hormonal. Perhaps simply male hardwiring embedded in the male brain, the result of the millions of years of human evolution.
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09-25-11
Word count: 1117
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. Ladies and gentlemen, kids of all ages, step right up, crowd right in, the fun’s about to begin. If you have a sensitive disposition or a squeamish stomach, please, whatever you do, do not continue reading.
Don’t say you were not warned: 9.1% of the adult population of the United States has a personality disorder. [N1]
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09-18-11
Word count: 1514
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. As a species, we need to learn the difference between the sensational and the empirical. Our inability to readily distinguish between the two is at the root of our social problems.
We fall for the glib narrative, mistake the predictably flashy individual for our actual reality. The more vocal the performer, the more likely we are to assume they possess some special insight that we do not.
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09-14-11
Word count: 1321
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