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The True Meaning of Holidays – 2020 Edition

Thanksgiving – Entering someone’s home to spread disease

Christmas – Ghosts terrorizing rich people until they agree to pay their employees more

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Bass-ackwards

In our society, those who act responsibly are penalized and those who flaunt the social compact are rewarded.

This is not good for anyone.

Pretty sure the second American Civil War has begun

I’ve never forgotten you, sweet girl. I’m sorry I failed you.

Ezri

PSA

IT IS OKAY TO CHANGE YOUR OPINION WHEN CONFRONTED WITH NEW INFORMATION. WE CALL THAT GROWTH.

Good read

For all my “I’m not a racist” relatives who are, in fact, racists.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873375416/there-is-no-neutral-nice-white-people-can-still-be-complicit-in-a-racist-society

No Such Debt

Unpopular opinion: Kids don’t owe their parents anything for being born and raised.

I never signed any contract or entered into any aggreement whereby I would do X in return for being born and having life.

I wasn’t the Read more

What lives within

When we lose a person it is not just who they were and what they represent that is lost to us, but all that was important to them as well. Those who lived on only in their memories are Read more

I’d like for my nieces and nephews to grow up in a world not unlike that of the Federation, mid-24th century. One where they had the resources and opportunities to really reach their potential. (And to put that bar Read more

Resurrection Protocol

I dunno how I’d cope with this. Part of it really appeals to me, knowing it would break my heart in the process.

But the chance to see Leia again is a strong pull. Even if it was an Read more

…and again

I love America. I love it above all because I admire the raw vitality of its constitution. That constitution – bequeathed by British and French liberals – was intended to create a melting pot for global migrants as they Read more

… It will all happen again.

I think the tl;dr is that this is exactly what Washington warned us would happen when his administration came to an end.

The trial was like watching a movie where the audience heard only the lines that they came Read more

The state of the union… is despair

Taxes filed!

Taxes are filed and it’s not even February!

Today I Discovered…

Today I discovered that Icheb (Manu Intiraymi) has started following me on Twitter. That brings my tally of Borg who have acknowledged me on social media to two. Assimilation may be imminent.

#WeAreBorg #ResistanceIsFutile

As I have sat here reviewing old posts, cleaning up categories and giving this site some overdue TLC I have the following observations.

I started this blog just before 9/11. That was also the time when I started joining Read more

For Leia

Today’s the particular anniversary of her death I’ve been dreading. The seven-year mark. The point in which I have mourned her for as long as I actually knew her.

Seven years. That’s how long my little Leia was in Read more

I don’t know why they would send it or why it would have to come today but this email from my vet about this condition that I think is what killed my little Leia.

The anniversary of her death Read more

It’s weird how much renters-mentality holds over in my brain. Like all the boxes I keep. For reasons pertaining to the potentiality of moving on short-notice when I might not be prepared to purchase them if I needed to. Little things like that.