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Month: January 2022

Total 7 Posts

Guns N’ Noses

I’m sure everyone has been hit up by various organizations asking for your political opinion.  The ones I hate are the ones that ask a question like: “How good of a job do you think the governor is doing?”.  Then, they only allow you to choose from one of the

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The Beginning of the End

This was a huge week.  If you only listen to mainstream media, Twitter and Facebook, you might not realize it.  But it was.  The United Kingdom, France and Ireland all announced this week that they’ll drop most, if not all, of their COVID restrictions and mandates. It’s about time that

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Broken Hearted

It used to be that a story about an athlete dropping dead on the playing field was big news.  Now it happens so often that it’s starting to become background noise.  Think about it.  Two years ago, we might hear one, maybe two stories a year about people dying while

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The Truth About COVID Testing

Last summer, my friend, who happens to be black…  Hang on, I forget, is the color of a person’s skin not supposed to matter at all, or is it the only thing that matters?  I can’t remember which it is these days.  I get so confused. Anyway, my African-American friend…well,

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Dumb Justice

About a month ago, the headlines on the mainstream media read “Supreme Court rejects bid to block COVID vaccine mandate for NY Health Workers”.  Even for the MSM, this was big news.  The headline was everywhere.  And it was misleading. One of the ways a case can make it to

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Political Science

I went back to college in my late 30’s.  By then, I had learned the trick of working smarter rather than harder.  One time, I had to write a paper for my Economics class.  Since I didn’t really care for the class, I decided to take a shortcut.  In other

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Jussied

A couple months ago, I was working on a project at my job.  The goal was to identify potential system problems and send a message when something hinky was detected.  I decided that when an issue was detected, I’d send a message that began with the words “System Notification” followed

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