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skipper wrote a new post, The Census 4 years, 9 months ago
Immediate reactions from the republicans are beer parties while the democrats cringe in dark corners. But it isn’t that simple. The census actually has several stories to tell.
There is a real chance t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Books 4 years, 9 months ago
It is a rare advantage to live with a working librarian. Mariner’s home is a sub-branch of his town library. Mariner’s wife maintains a steady stream of contemporary works moving on and off their library she […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Moving South 4 years, 9 months ago
As regular readers know, one of mariner’s political dreams is to merge North and South America into a planet-leading powerhouse for economics, culture and science. This is fantasy of course; the United States c […]
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skipper commented on the post, About the Police 4 years, 9 months ago
You have a knack for picking sources!
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skipper wrote a new post, About the Police 4 years, 9 months ago
It’s a shame that the police slowly have changed from keepers of peace to keepers of discipline. Like many cultural shifts, the role of police slowly has changed due to similar subtle changes around them in e […]
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“Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all – the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.” – Richard J. Daley, 1968
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You have a knack for picking sources!
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skipper wrote a new post, A Stipend for a Day Lived 4 years, 9 months ago
Mariner has read Andrew Yang’s book, The ‘War on Normal People’. The reader may recall he was the democratic candidate who espoused a monthly $1,000 stipend be paid to citizens of working age which had no relat […]
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skipper commented on the post, Don’t talk to my hand, talk to my soul. 4 years, 9 months ago
Thanks for your insights, Robert. They are affirming of my own experiences. The battle between subconscious and conscious opinions lies at the heart of so many confrontations in our society today. It’s nice to reflect on positive ones for a change.
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skipper wrote a new post, Don’t talk to my hand, talk to my soul. 4 years, 9 months ago
A couple of weeks ago, Mariner watched an episode of CBS Sunday Morning. It was a discussion about whether we should dismiss good art because the creator was an asshole. This was a follow up discussion to the […]
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Thanks for your insights, Robert. They are affirming of my own experiences. The battle between subconscious and conscious opinions lies at the heart of so many confrontations in our society today. It’s nice to reflect on positive ones for a change.
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skipper wrote a new post, Count your blessings even if there’s only one tiny one 4 years, 10 months ago
The Global Trends Report, which is compiled every four years, is an example of strategic foresight. Some clips:
“Driving the news: Many, if not most, of those trends identified in the new report from the U.S. g […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Movement 4 years, 10 months ago
Wow, just four days ago Justice Clarence wrote that there should be tighter regulations on social media – This from Axios:
New rules from tech companies are making it harder for users who commit crimes in the r […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Tactics 4 years, 10 months ago
Tarun Chhabra, now a senior director on Biden’s National Security Council, wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2020 an article titled “The Left Should Play the China Card: Foreign Rivalry Inspires Progress at Home,” Chhab […]
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skipper wrote a new post, From unexpected quarters 4 years, 10 months ago
On April 5 the Supreme Court reversed a previous lower court decision per a suit filed by the Biden Administration. The decision had to do with the use of social media and freedom of speech on Twitter. The […]
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skipper commented on the post, The New Global Economy 4 years, 10 months ago
Only you, Robert, would rummage through your coal furnace ashes looking for rare minerals. You are right, of course, that there are other sources and that science is working on alternative technologies. The two biggies that already affect industry are Lithium and Cobalt. Cobalt is found most abundantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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skipper wrote a new post, The New Global Economy 4 years, 10 months ago
In a number of posts mariner has suggested that stand-alone national economies have peaked and are not the solution to the economic future. Virtually every economist feels that the economic health of the globe is […]
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Only you, Robert, would rummage through your coal furnace ashes looking for rare minerals. You are right, of course, that there are other sources and that science is working on alternative technologies. The two biggies that already affect industry are Lithium and Cobalt. Cobalt is found most abundantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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skipper wrote a new post, On Character 4 years, 10 months ago
When mariner and his wife moved to Maryland, he had thoughts of entering politics. He and his wife even campaigned actively for Bobbie Kennedy. He quickly became disillusioned. Unlike religion which requires […]
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skipper wrote a new post, IF 4 years, 10 months ago
IF the reader was born before the Vietnam War (1954), their core understanding of reality and related social values is outdated – functional but outdated. Life values accumulate via growth experiences until a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, These are trying times 4 years, 10 months ago
Trying times is an understatement.
The migration of tens of millions of people, exacerbated by a changing climate, will be one of the mega-trends of the 21st century, Bryan Walsh writes in Axios […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Let’s check in on the real news 4 years, 10 months ago
In 4.5 billion years the Sun will fry the Earth destroying all living matter.
The Moon is drifting away from the Earth at the rate of 1.5 inches per year. Today the Moon circles the Earth about every 27 days; […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Freedom of Speech 4 years, 10 months ago
A brief quote from Leon Wieseltier in White Rose Magazine:
“After everything that liberalism endured and survived, after the unimaginably savage assaults of fascism and communism, we must steadfastly fight f […]
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skipper commented on the post, Yes, that finger 4 years, 10 months ago
Neat term – Magat.
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