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Posts published in “Essays”

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…

Misty Cliffs Mask Murky Motives

You can’t go to England without doing a proper bit of hiking, and today is my day to show how a Yank does the ol’ to-and-fro marching business. Yesterday Trophy the wife explained where we’d…

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