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Ray O'Neill

Gary the phone scammer, and other idiots
Sometimes it isn’t customers or coworkers making my job harder or damaging my calm. Sometimes it’s phone scammers. The one […]

OK, shill: a clothing ad’s obnoxious voterism
A video ad for Levi’s jeans cropped up in my Tiwtter timeline yesterday. Its virality was due to the first […]

The urge to burn it all down
There are more than two posts on this blog. It might have been otherwise. Once in a while, I become […]

On not writing: an overextended fishing metaphor
Writing this blog is a bit like fishing in a small pond. I can see movement in the water every […]
Obscure blogger wins Iowa caucuses
This post’s headline was a lie, but it’s only slightly less ridiculous than what actually happened at Iowa’s Democratic caucuses, […]
“So you rented out a meth house”
Micah Lang writes in The Outline about her old college roommate, who’s gotten into landlording: The ranch was an investment, […]
It’s the little things: a ream of BS
I’ve mentioned the register counter as a paperwork and memo display point before, but one day recently it saw slightly […]
Was Cory Booker running for commerce secretary?
Let’s recap. Cory Booker: started a presidential campaign, pushed no message I can remember other than “party unity,” and ended […]
It’s the little things: policy changes
Here’s how a company run by sensible people could have reacted to the recent change in the federal smoking age: […]