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January 17, 2021

Word of the Day – Caitiff

Caitiff is pretty rare in contemporary use, but it has functioned since the 14th century as an adjective and also as a noun meaning “a base, […]

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January 11, 2021

Stop Getting Milked!

Switch from being a data cow, being data mined to furthering your own aims and fulfilling your own purpose. Mark Jeftovic: https://outofthecave.io/articles/the-collectivist-nature-of-social-media-platforms-and-big-tech/ It seems to […]

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January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

Sacred Cows

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. Abbie [Abbott] Hoffman (1936-1989) I couldn’t agree more with the aforementioned quote. It is an a priori way of […]

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January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

Critical Theory and Nature vs. Nurture

It occurred to me this morning that critical theory’s maniacal focus on everything as a ‘social construct’ is really just an often unconscious decision to […]

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December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

Political Kabuki

Today’s jewel of a quote comes to us from James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936): Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract […]

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December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

Daily Quote

Today, I start a new tradition on this blog… the daily quote. Inspired by my finding a used copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations [for $9.95!] […]

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October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

Thou Art Not That

With apologies to Joseph Campbell… The other day I was having a conversation with someone that was having a hard time with boundaries; due to […]

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October 20, 2020October 20, 2020

It’s Science!

Torrents of bits stream pass, a never ending flow; Data promenading past: spinning off disk platters, dancing through RAM. ‘I need intelligence!’ shouts a voice. […]

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September 13, 2020

Things I Wish I’d Known About my FreeNAS from the Get Go

A while ago, I was looking for an ‘easy’ and ‘inexpensive’ way to provide file sharing on my home network that would satisfy both WinTel […]

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July 26, 2020July 26, 2020

Jung as High Priest(ess) Maker

My wife and I (also a PhD in Depth Psychology) often lament the elitism surrounding Jungian therapy. The people of old who could afford to […]

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