Category: Political Commentary
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Sometimes, It’s BEST To ‘Think Like’ A STORYTELLER…
If you want to have a shot at being a successful storyteller, you need to have a better grasp of how people actually tick than most other people. Storytellers who don’t get human beings right are soon employed doing other things — storytelling being out of their range. As any reader or audience member can…
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What Tribalism IS & ISN’T
Our illustrious, observant MSM points out a lot these days how TRIBAL we’ve all become (and how ‘it’s both sides’ fault that we HAVE become so tribal). As I’m fond of saying on these pages here, if you start from a place of BULLSHIT, you will only ever see BULLSHIT in front of you. And…
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Can We Be Really, REALLY Honest With Each Other? If You Believe In Bullshit — WHY Should ANYONE BELIEVE YOU?
I’ll try and make this easy. If you boarded an airplane and the pilot announced (before the doors had closed) that not only was this his very first flight as a professional pilot — and (cause that’s not enough), he doesn’t believe in science, he believes in Magic — and just to prove that HIS…
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Dear American News Media: Telling A Story Is Like ‘CLIMBING’ A Mountain – Not Just ‘LOOKING’ At One…
Mountains impress. They wow you with their existence, their enormity, their majesty, their size. On the one hand you want to revere it like a sentient creature, on the other, you want to climb it — not so much to master it as just to look it directly in the eye. You want the mountain…
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How About If, Today, We Declare Independence From BULLSHIT!
It seems a natural thing to want to be INDEPENDENT from — BULLSHIT. Yet, look around you and ‘witness’ all those who are SLAVES to BULLSHIT — especially their own. Turns out we all carry around our own bullshit like it was a box of LPs from College that we know we should get rid…
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The Republican Dream: TWO AMERICAS
Clarity. Ya have to give the Republican Party full bonus points for having ‘Clarity’. They know EXACTLY the ‘kind of America’ they want our country to be. Too bad it’s 1850 America. The republican party aspires to live in a White, Christian, Male Dominated World. Demographics do not line up with that world any more. They…
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What This Country MEANS To Me (America IS Exceptional — When Republicans GET OUT OF OUR WAY…)
I have a mixed marriage. I am American and my wife is British (now also American). My children are mixed – British & American Nationals. I have contemplated becoming like them – a Bi-National. And yet — I have always had reservations about doing such a thing — because, on some level, I feel like…
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Pay People ‘To Do Nothing’? Actually, It Makes EVERYBODY Better Off – So Says THE DATA…
The concept goes by a couple of variations on the theme of ‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’ or ‘Universal basic income’ (UBI). It is — strangely enough — a place where Extreme Progressive Left & Extreme Libertarian Right meet in a fond embrace; different reasons entirely but love is love, yeah? The concept sounds to the uninformed…
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Here’s An Absolute Truth: All Results From Election 2016 MUST BE TOSSED. Otherwise It’ll Be ‘SLAVERY: The Sequel’
Excuse me if we ‘cut to the cliche’: Russia touched, influenced or CORRUPTED virtually every facet of Election 2016. They penetrated databases, stole & transferred data, weaponized that data and turned it back on us, bought American politicians wholesale via the NRA and thousands of Russian ‘retirees’. This didn’t happen suddenly. Vladimir Putin himself had…