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This is the original story that featured my "not quite a friend" John the con artist. I based this and other stories in the series on a real person we knew, and theings he actually said and did. In my early adult years, I moved around, plying the trade of a Pious Itinerant. To wit, …
This time of year, I spend just a bit more time watching TV or on my computer, watching politicians offer warm and sincere feelings of brotherly love, joy, and best wishes for the New Year. Just the week before, they'd been snarling about jailing the miscreants who opposed them in their righteous campaign against whatever …
An Idle mind is truly the Devil's playground. I've been busy but not really occupied the past several days. Work and the shop have occupied my skill sets but not truly engaged my mind. This can create a tough situation in which the wheels spin freely, but the gears are disengaged. Cold showers can only do so …
"Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation." - Edward R. Murrow Confused? That's good. It means that you are thinking. Something alerted you - not everything was the way it should be. I know many people think that going around confused is a bad idea. But I'd wager that it's those who always act with surety who are in trouble. They are …
In one of Indiana Jones's movies, a Knight Templar tells the person reaching for the Holy Grail to " choose, but choose wisely." This is good advice today, too. Which side are you on? That question gets asked a lot these days, and evidently, nuances, shades, and alternatives are no longer allowed. It's simple: Pick A or B. …
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My 1960s self is reasserting itself. I am a bit to the left, but not a radical group left. In those days I could still have sane conversations with my peers about the same amount as me but to the right.We often didn't agree on much. But we did agree that the truly radical left …
My poor junk email folder. It's been busting every day recently. Donald, J.D., and a host of "conservative" causes have recently started calling me friend, brother, fellow traveler, and such. I suspect that I must have pissed off someone badly, and they slipped my email address into one of Donald's causes. Let's see, I get …
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A long time ago, I lived in a sort of Folkie Paradise. I moved from city to city, played guitar, hung out with exciting friends, and held outrageous political beliefs, like " We need better government now and less government later." I wasn't entirely convinced by anarchist friends that something, as they tried in Catalonia …
I have a problem with authority. It goes back to when I was young, and while I've moderated it a bit, I'll always be the guy who is skeptical of a gold-plated authority spouting the Creed on a stool. Some of this derives from my days on the road as a Folkie, folksinger, and Pius …
My father's advice was that I not get seaman's papers. Then, in the Navy, I discovered that long deployments at sea, while long in the serenity department, were short on any other "interesting" activity for a young man. Gazing at sunrises, sunsets, and moon reflections over the sea was all well and good. But they …
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