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Dark and dreary today. Rain and wind and whatever else that can dampen your mood and have you clutching the covers to keep them over your head…
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I'm sitting in my basement office, and I'm starting to cover surfaces with assorted Xmas gear. Strands of lights and santa snowglobes and a stuffed…
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It feels different out there this year. I don't know why. Maybe the World Cup being played over the holidays has thrown our equilibrium off. The US…
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Last night just past midnight I glanced at my phone on the way to bed. Somebody in my feed posted something like "we don't have time to digest one…
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At least it does mean "world". It drives me crazy that we say "the world series" when the world isn't invited. The World Cup is the single biggest…
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Taylor Swift broke Ticketmaster and Elon Musk broke Twitter. It's been a wild ride lately. But I've grown weary of Musk, who is an unrelenting shithead…
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And there he was yet again, gibbering like a drunken Uncle at Thanksgiving. We all know guys like this. When they show up at a party everybody suddenly…
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I woke up today to news of more killings. Three dead at the University of Virginia. Senseless. Not enough bodies to make frontpage news. But if you…
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I went for a long walk last night after work, which means I walked in the dark. I know about this daylight savings thing and everything, but I can't…
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I created a Twitter account a few years ago but I never got around to figuring out how to use it. I didn't know how to go about getting followers…
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