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Climate change hysteria

I am not exploring the mountain of data on climate change. I would rather speak to the hysteria that surrounds the movement. Full disclosure, I do believe that some form of climate change is taking place. We have not been good stewards of our planet and there is a price to be paid for complacency. Yet, the hysteria associated with this topic is overwhelming. Some young people are not old enough…

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The race to the bottom

The race to the bottom

The order of business today is to get noticed. The more shocking and inflammatory the comments the greater the attention given. The 24 hour news cycle, social media, youtube videos and the list goes on. This is not a new concept. Howard Stern was once labeled the “Shock Jock” for his syndicated radio show. People tune in when there is controversy. When I was growing up in the 1970’s, a school…

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Word Count? When Jack Dorsey created Twitter in March of 2006 he was introducing a new social media platform that was groundbreaking.

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Control

You hear the phrase spoken “The world is out of control”. Can we really control our world?

I will start that discussion with the two extremes in life; the birth and death of a person. A cursory look reveals we cannot control the day we are born or die? This is of course assuming a natural birth and death, early birth by Cesarean and suicide discounted, we do not control our entry and exit…

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What are you looking at?

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What are you looking at?

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Artificial I remember as a child the first time I encountered an artificial plant and artificial fruit. I was amazed with the detail and life like recreation of the plant and fruit.

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Crisis?

There are so many articles for and against owning guns and climate change that I will not try to deconstruct these topics. I do want to address the topic of the use of hyperbole in solving problems. There are many hot button topics in the world today (there always will be). When discussing the solutions for these problems we usually create new set of problems with the use of radical rhetoric. How…

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Manners: Who has the time?

Time appears to be a premium these days. Yet, there is still 168 hours in a week. It takes a couple of seconds to be polite but it appears that is a tax on our time we cannot afford to pay. The loss of manners might be summed up with two categories. I will briefly address both.

First, we are to preoccupied to be present for our conversations and interactions. We have time limits for…

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