Stereotypes.
I was strongly tempted to call out, “It’s cold in those bullpens![*] They’ll bring you a bag lunch.”
I’ve been there.
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Ayn Rand’s karma
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
This morning on my walk from Dunkin’ Donuts to the library, I stopped at the corner of Fayette and St. Paul Sts. to finish a cigarette, before I’d go into the convenience store. To my right, on a bench, sat this woman, bent over with her head between her knees; she had turned her head to the left and was calling to me. I couldn’t make out her words. She is a “taker.” Sometimes I respond to such folk with compassion; sometimes I respond with contempt.
How would Ayn Rand have responded?
“Soft” and “hard” skills in school; and other news
Lesson 19: Words containing “rea”
Another difficult combination. Again, “r” is normally typed with the off hand, and “ea” is a hook.
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Jeff Sessions hits back at Donald Trump after president labels him a ‘disgrace’ over FBI allegations
Self-glorifying systems
What’s in your heart?
Why I believe in astrology
I came to belief in astrology by a very strange route.
MY “MONTHLY”
Sometime between 1985 and 1995, I became aware that, for years, roughly once a month I had faced a personal crisis; and some of these were pretty severe.
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Lesson 18: Words containing “ear”
Here we find that in the combination “ear,” normally “ea” will be a hook typed with the left hand, and the “r” will be typed with the right. “Sear,” “wear,” “sears,” “wears” and “seared” are exceptions.
“‘Implicit Bias’ Is Very Real and It Infects Every One of Us”
Two different approaches to white racism
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The liberal “we”
There is a certain futility to talking about
people you never talk with.
The Homeless Blogger 