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Be Here Now
People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sounds of Silence I think “Sounds of Silence” may have been about cellphones. There’s been a whole new level of…
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It’s Bad to Be Right
Maybe I should’ve made numeric predictions after all. What’s utterly hilarious to me about the current political situation is how the script of what’s going on ratchets back and forth so quickly. Two weeks ago, this was Hillary’s nomination to…
Duck and Cover #819
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Independence
Yesterday was rather surreal, all told, and a good bit volatile as well in the face of some long odds and a decent amount of personal boredom. I am in what I might describe as a sort of fugue state…
Duck and Cover #818
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It’s Good to Be Wrong
And now I’m back. From outer space. If by “outer space,” I mean “a cabin in the woods with the Garin Clan.” And I do. As far as Iowa goes, Henry Clay once said “I’d rather be right than President.”…
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Iowa
But way back where I come from we never mean to bother we don’t like to make our passions other people’s concern and we walk in the world of safe people and at night we walk into our houses and…