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skipper wrote a new post, Innate Understanding of the Job 10 years ago

When the mariner was entering the working world for the first time, he visited the state employment office. He was given an aptitude test and a dexterity test. It was only then that the counselor talked with him […]
skipper wrote a new post, Stirrings in the South China Sea 10 years ago

Okay. This headline has Chicken Little running around the backyard:

The U.S. Navy has dispatched a small armada to the South China Sea.
The carrier John C. Stennis, two destroyers, two cruisers and the 7th […]
skipper wrote a new post, A new culture for economy – what's next? Redux 12 years, 11 months ago

What follows is the very first post to The Blog of the Ancient Mariner. It was posted on April 5, 2013 at 2:AM. He could write the same post today. These thoughts seem more urgent, more dire than when this post […]