Tag: trump
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WonderCon 2025
This is my 3rd year attending WonderCon, for me the first Con of the season at the end of March, and somehow it just wasn’t as much fun this year. Not necessarily the Con’s fault, but that of my own attitude. One remarkable thing about this year’s Con was the simultaneous presence in the hotel…
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War or Diplomacy: Language Matters
I speak and write only one language fluently. I know about a hundred words of Spanish and can pronounce it flawlessly. I can read German with the occasional help of a dictionary and speak it perfectly but never learned to converse in it fluently having never mastered using my limited vocabulary to convey what I…
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Trolling Considered Harmful (and Stupid)
I posted this on LinkedIn, to point out that certain people seem to think that any hand gesture is some kind of crypto Nazi sign of solidarity, which makes no sense. A fellow LinkedIn member came across it and reposted it to mock my take, and it has attracted over 16,000 views and 67 comments…
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Do You Expect Me to Fly? No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to DEI.
When we were confronted with 2 plane crashes near airports in the last week, The Media That Be (TMTB) howled that Trump was going to get us all killed because there is a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers. Trump in his usual attack, then counter-attack mode blamed DEI policies for lowering the standards, recruiting obviously…
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Jesus Was a Refugee
Upstart Catholic convert J. D. Vance aroused the righteous indignation of a prominent Jesuit priest by the Vice President’s claims that deporting immigrants was sanctioned by their shared religion. The priest responded by noting that Jesus was once a refugee in Egypt, and so all Christians should treat immigrants with dignity. For those unfamiliar with…
Musings of a Restless Mind 