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hearing hope from a child’s fingers

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

My mind is a mess. It’s nothing new.
But my son is practicing the piano.
The election is tomorrow. I can’t wait until it’s over. All this anger from so many sides. Anger that so often leads to blatant stupidity. I hear the bleating of millions of idiot sheep in my head, and it wants to drown [...]

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There is no truth, only perspective

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

 
That title sounds like Obi-Want, doesn’t it?
“What I told you is true… from a certain point of view.”
But I believe that statement to be one of the wiser lines from that whole set of films. (Right below Padme’s “So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.” But that’s a whole different conversation.)
This is a [...]

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no one to vote for

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I have a hot wife who loves to play video games.
This doesn’t really have anything with this post other than set the original scene, and give me a chance to brag. More the latter than the former.
Anyway…
I was lying in bed watching TV while she was playing Final Fantasy on the PS2. On The Documentary [...]

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I love movies.
Well – I used to love movies. Nowadays I generally like movies. I love the occasional movie. But most of them are the same drivel over and over again. I have irritated the snot out of my wife more than once by telling her how the entire movie is going to roll out [...]

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I hope I’m wrong

Friday, June 8th, 2007

It’s been proven over and over, from the beginning of time.
It’s hard to stay on top. And no one stays there forever.
It’s simple to see why. Those who aren’t on top inevitably want it more than those who already are. That’s the simplest reason. The most logical. The most obvious. But it goes much deeper [...]

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On Anger

Monday, August 7th, 2006

OK – I’m going to try to spin this a different way.
I’m chock full of negativity lately.
But I’m not sure that all that badness is all bad.
I think a lot of the bad is probably good.
Being happy and content all the time is not necessarily a good thing.
Neither is laying back and just letting things [...]

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