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The Waste

December 12, 2021

The Waste I make some broad statements about work. These are my opinions generally, but most of my opinions are based in recorded — and therefore verifiable — fact and direct experience. To say how I arrived at these statements would take up a library of books and perhaps a good deal of “walking in […]

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May This Year Bring Less Gifts and Far More Christmas

December 26, 2020

May This Year Bring Less Gifts and Far More Christmas Even The Grinch Knows This May this year bring to all more Christmas and less of the junk we have all come to know as gift giving. This time of year I find the mind-numbing barrage from stuff that peddlers are rushing to fill any […]

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Bring Them Home for Christmas

November 14, 2020

Bring Them Home for Christmas Pablo Picasso Dans l’atelier 1954“There is nothing in Afghanistan worth the life of a single American soldier.” – Douglas Macgregor I’m having a bit of a problem finding the right format for this essay. I want to highlight a whole number of quotes, but I also would like you to read the […]

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Dumping on the Donald

December 26, 2018

Dumping on the Donald Rembrandt van Rijn The Adoration of the Magi 16xx I still had some things I didn’t talk about in Sunday’s Trump Derangement International, about how the European press have found out that they, like the US MSM, can get lots of viewers and readers simply by publishing negative stories about Donald […]

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Groomed to Consume

December 20, 2018

Groomed to Consume With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and overspending than peace on earth or quality time with family and friends. As with so much of our lives, the holidays […]

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Talk Cold Turkey

August 14, 2018

Talk Cold Turkey Henri Matisse View of Nôtre Dame 1914 Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2003. His AKP party had won a major election victory in 2002, but Erdogan was banned from political office until his predecessor Gül annulled the ban. Which he had gotten in 1997 for reciting an old […]

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Un-Merry Christmas: The Perverse Incentives to Over-Consume and Over-Spend

December 20, 2017

Un-Merry Christmas: The Perverse Incentives to Over-Consume and Over-Spend Isn’t it obvious that if we set out to design the most perverse, toxic and doomed system possible, we’d end up with the Keynesian Cargo Cult’s insane permanent growth/Landfill Economy? Few topics are off-limits nowadays: the personal and private are now splashed everywhere for all to […]

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A Season of Consequences

December 27, 2016

A Season of Consequences One of the many advantages of being a Druid is that you get to open your holiday presents four days early. The winter solstice—Alban Arthuan, to use one term for it in the old-fashioned Druid Revival traditions I practice—is one of the four main holy days of the Druid year. Though […]

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