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The Boss Speaks

I’m gonna charge tariffs You’re gonna have to pay And pray for your sad little 4 0 1 K You’ll do it my way I’m gonna close food banks No more surplus cheese Until I…

Salam Egypt

I have been fascinated by ancient Egypt since I was very young. I always knew I'd go there sometime in my life but now, at age 60, most of my life had passed and the…

What’s Dave’s Side Of The Story?

For a decade or more Dave Eyster had been striding along nicely, doing well, sitting pretty, operating his local Inmate Prison Assembly Line with great efficiency, if not much compassion. But who wants a compassionate…

My Son John Would Have Been 61 Today

This is a photo of him in 1980, when he was 16. He’d had only a few seizures at the time. I don’t know if he had started on Dilantin – the first of many…

Herd Management

It's mostly about livestock management: let's say you've got 300 million free Americans each of whom is convinced that they know the way things ought to be and when you ask each of them about…

Confessions Of A Failed Computer Professor

Actually, I was not a computer professor but a junior college part-time computer instructor in the late 1980s at Evergreen Valley Community College in San Jose. I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1979 when…

China Takes Taiwan. Here Is How.

China doesn't want a smoking ruin. No Gaza. China wants a Taiwan nice and orderly and prosperous and useful. The current big military exercises around the island are designed to keep us preparing for a…

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