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skipper wrote a new post, Ready, Aim . . . 3 years, 6 months ago
An article from The New Statesman, a British publication, has a different slant on the US obsessive gun dependency:
“US gun violence is not just a domestic political issue. The failure to take action is a g […]
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skipper wrote a new post, About the orange 3 years, 6 months ago
Sorry for the pessimism. For many decades mariner has been sensitive to an imbalance between humans and the biosphere. In all of Earth’s history, life has been dependent on a global balance between the p […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Demise is becoming a possibility 3 years, 6 months ago
Another tragic mass murder of children. It is within reasonable odds that the reader and their children will be shot before winning any state lottery. Yet, like an internal cancer, guns and gun ownership have […]
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Is there no joy in Mudville???
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skipper wrote a new post, An unusual find 3 years, 6 months ago
Mariner often shares his father’s penchant for chopping human behavior into little pieces with simplistic names like ‘who people, what people and how people’ and of course the ultimate Myers-Briggs test – all gro […]
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O, for we postmodern suburban West Germanic Anglo-Americans the yeoman will always be the most virtuous and emulable social class. The more relatable Founding Fathers certainly agreed. I aspire to it as well and in my cheerier moments view myself as such, after a fashion, not least because of your own efforts at my early acculturation.
You don’t want to give a man too much in a capitalistic society, but you don’t want to give him too little either. A sweet spot for the individual and society is a few hides of land for field and forge, some recalcitrant donkeys and/or motor-cars, an industrious wife and plentiful belligerent children, and an automatic rifle or two in case if things ever get hairy. (And enough book-larnin’ to read the Bible, but not too much more?)
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch …”
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skipper wrote a new post, Let’s trade 3 years, 6 months ago
It is the habit of the electorate, and with good cause, to blame politicians when things go wrong. The United States, along with other nations, has suffered severe shortages of food, medicine, numerous grocery […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Priorities 3 years, 6 months ago
In a recent post mariner wrote about the idea that democracy requires a start with the individual and an individual’s sense of what is real. Yet, our society, indeed every society today, is controlled top down – […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Quick 3 years, 6 months ago
SHOOTINGS. When there are 300 million people around, statistically a few thousand are crazy. That’s the way it is. The real problem is that there are way too many guns!
200 Mass Shootings in 2022PUTIN. T […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Know your Representative – for now 3 years, 6 months ago
Mariner has read three sources that cover gerrymandering. The cycle goes like this:
Party 1 draws new district lines.
Party 2 sues.
The courts throw out the new gerrymandering district, leaving the old […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Metaverse News 3 years, 6 months ago
Mariner just read that in the metaverse there is a clothing store that will sell clothing fitted to your avatar. Mariner weeps quietly as he remembers going shopping at the nearby discount department store – now c […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Fading Democracy 3 years, 7 months ago
Mariner appreciates that his readers tolerate his rambling across myriad subjects, his flaunting of philosophical irritations, and generally being the Luddite that he is. But this is a serious observation that […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Happy Compassion Day aka Mothers Day 3 years, 7 months ago
This from Scott Simon at NPR:
A video for you: Derek Rodriguez, a 9-year-old Yankees fan, went to a game in Toronto’s Rogers Centre (yes, that’s how they spell it), where his hero Aaron Judge stroked a hom […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Birth events have shifted 3 years, 7 months ago
The AP news service published an article today that is fascinating to think about. AP pointed to statistics that show women in their twenties have put off having children. Instead the average time for having […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Follow up to Vladimir 3 years, 7 months ago
Mariner was asked what he meant by ‘gunslinger’ capitalism.
RENO – In late 2016, an out-of-state casino owner, Jeffrey Jacobs, started buying up property surrounding Nystrom House, a large old hotel for low inc […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Vladimir 3 years, 7 months ago
Mariner often has made the argument that older politicians cannot properly interpret the broad picture of a world in which they did not grow up. It occurs to mariner that Vladimir Putin is a classic example. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Checkpoints 3 years, 7 months ago
֎ The Iowa spring has been slow to start; the ground is still too cold for most vegetables. It rains three days out of five and the daytime temperature refuses to stay as high as the 60s. Iowa has had so much […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Who makes the decisions in your life? 3 years, 7 months ago
Lately mariner has been writing about truth – aka reality – especially as it applies to an environment of disbursed information not relative to local reality. Another form of truth-stealing is mariner’s old favor […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Truth shall make you Whole 3 years, 7 months ago
Is it right, either spiritually, politically or culturally, for one person (Musk, Zuckerberg et al) to own a conduit to the truth? Is this a new form of dictatorship? Do we already live in an oligarchical state? […]
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skipper commented on the post, Then and Now 3 years, 7 months ago
I share your anxiety, Robert. Interestingly, the college curriculum is a target in today’s chopped-up culture. As for us old folk knowing what we’re doing, I am reminded of a double jigsaw puzzle I had to solve. It was two different images with all the pieces mixed together. I gave up early on. To us codgers, the world social order is like that…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Then and Now 3 years, 7 months ago
From when he was five years old, mariner still has a few memories. The war was still on. He remembers city blackouts and fearing a bomber was coming until he could discern it was just the train at the end of the […]
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I share your anxiety, Robert. Interestingly, the college curriculum is a target in today’s chopped-up culture. As for us old folk knowing what we’re doing, I am reminded of a double jigsaw puzzle I had to solve. It was two different images with all the pieces mixed together. I gave up early on. To us codgers, the world social order is like that puzzle – does ANYONE know what the picture is supposed to look like? At least the planet is trying to push back.
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skipper wrote a new post, These are the times . . . 3 years, 7 months ago
֎ Illinois law bans schools from fining students. So local police are doing it for them, issuing thousands of tickets a year for truancy, vaping, fights and other misconduct. Children are then thrown into a legal […]
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