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Waterfalls, Hiking, Dinner, Etc.

An evening of waterfalls, an inevitable soaking, a challenging hike home, and pork tenderloin. Plus why I love concrete personal projects but distrust the nebulous, vague goals of current work, and why America's problem is health insurance, not healthcare.

Waterfalls, Hiking, Dinner, Etc.

The Decline of the Presidency

A Lime Wire coworker once told me he was voting for Obama because of his excellent speeches, and I still cringe. How we speak reflects how we think, but we don't elect a national orator. Set Trump's self-praise beside Washington's 1789 proclamation and Roosevelt's arena.

The Decline of the Presidency

License to Trim

I've always found it baffling that haircutting is licensed by the state. A chat with a forty-year barber sent me down the history: Minnesota in 1897, fears of "barber's itch," and mostly economic gatekeeping against immigrant competition. If you don't like your cut, go elsewhere.

License to Trim

MTG Resigns

Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns, not a moment longer than needed to secure her pension. For those criticizing the exit, remember she couldn't stay faithful to her marriage, so why expect better at the job? Here's hoping her replacement has a name that doesn't need an abbreviation.

Work Hard, Be Happy

On Talia Jane's attempt to publicly shame her employer, and Stefanie Williams' sharp retort about work ethic, humility, and entitlement. When did socialism become fashionable and rich become derogatory? My wife noticed the run-on sentences. Icing on the cake.

Work Hard, Be Happy

Road-Side Tax Collection

Perhaps due to slacking off around Thanksgiving, the roadside tax collectors were out in force: nineteen speed traps between here and church. Sorry, Timmy, no present this year because Officer Billy Bob needed to make his quota.

Collected Thoughts on Elections and Squirrel-Like Behavior

Collected thoughts too small to each warrant a post: why I think you should be able to cast a negative vote rather than throw it away, and why kids on bikes are best understood as 30-pound squirrels. My average ride speed that day: half a mile per hour faster than jogging.

T-SPLOST

It was my pleasure and privilege this morning to vote NO on T-SPLOST. I hope you did the same.

National Security, Protection of Life & Property ... and the IRS

News to me: the federal government may mostly shut down Friday night over the budget. National security and protection of life and property stay on, and so does the IRS, because they need to collect what's owed. Honestly, leave it like that.

Your Rights vs My Rights

New York may be inching toward a public smoking ban, and one smoker insists we should have the freedom to light up. Sure, in a desert or a forest. But the moment your habit harms the people around you, that freedom ends. Go smoke; just not near the rest of us.

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