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Hope and change; disillusionment and despair Comments Off

N.B. I began this post about a month ago, but I never really could find a way to fin­ish it. Rather than allow it to linger, I’ve decided to pub­lish it. In Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Com­mu­nity?, Mar­tin Luther King Jr. writes: Unfor­tu­nately, when hope dimin­ishes, the hate is often turned most bit­terly toward those who […]

The mythical golden paycheck of the Fed 2

There is a per­ni­cious myth that is con­sis­tently spread by many peo­ple that the “aver­age” Fed­eral employee is bathing in the excesses of gov­ern­ment largess and is over­paid. While this is likely to be true in some cases, the typ­i­cal posi­tion is gen­er­ally under­paid ver­sus the area and respon­si­bil­i­ties. To show how bad the sit­u­a­tion really […]

Charles Darwin was wrong Comments Off

We are not, as Dar­win prof­fered, descended from the “lower mam­mals”. We are not the prod­uct of mil­lions of years of evo­lu­tion. We are, instead, the unre­lent­ing descen­dant of tele­phone san­i­tiz­ers. This was made ever more clear over the last few weeks as I strug­gled to explain to a client why charg­ing their cus­tomers for the simple […]