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Political

Reacting against symbols

This last week Dean Landsman wrote about a business meeting with a person, a long-time associate and friend, who during a heated discussion resorted to religious epithets. Dean wrote: What shook me was the attitude as much as the epithets. I haven’t dealt with this sort of bigotry in over thirty years. And all this time, the […]

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Political

Why I won’t pester the folks next door

You may or may not know that I live in Missouri. What you also may, or may not know, is that Missouri is right next door to Iowa, the state currently with a big red bullseye painted on it because of the Democratic Caucus this coming Monday. I’ve been reading about folks heading to Iowa […]

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Weblogging

Being deliberately attacked

I am being deliberately and systematically attacked through my comments in order to force them off. Since I have no effective comment management, and no known comment spam technique will work, no not even mt-blacklist with this one, I have no choice but to turn off comments. This attack is from the kiddie script that […]

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Weblogging

Do not click that link

Comment spammers have now been replaced by hackers. New comment spam, wording of which I have left, has a link that goes to a site that has so many out of control media and pop ups in it, it took my Mac down. Yes. My Mac. Look for this link – http://www.nero-online.org/lastmeasure DO NOT CLICK […]

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Media

Movie, anyone?

When Dave Rogers typed in members from his old sci-fi movie collection, I knew that I had “This Island Earth”, stuffed somewhere among the videos. While picking through the packed boxes, I was able to find my old, beloved copy of “Them”. I almost feel like I found a forgotten hundred dollar bill, stuffed into an old, discarded […]