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Archive for ‘Pieces’

Some of us are can remember 2009, Joe
I get that Joe Biden would like potential voters to be talking about something, anything other than Tara Reade. And […]

A layman’s view of Coronaville
There’s a virus going around. I can safely assume you’ve heard of it already, because you’re reading this post and […]
The state of the Circus, April 2020
One silver lining of the Plague, its domination of the news media, and the related cancellation of most public gatherings […]

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 […]
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 […]
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: […]