| No Answer
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2024-05-18
It's probably just inertia. You may as well keep going.
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| what runs the rocket industry?
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2024-05-16
It's the usual story. The capitalists are spending lots of money because they expect to make even more money later. There aren't any mines on the moon yet, but there will be, and military bases, too.
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| the culture of suicide
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2024-05-14
That's an interesting idea. I'll have to look at the statistics.
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| The White Line
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2024-05-13
Your attitude could be called a kernel of conservatism. The more of them that you have, the more thoroughly conservative you are.
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| News that change the direction of the world (but not the trajectory of the planet Earth) !
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2024-05-13
The news organizations' reason for being is to find something, anything to tell us.
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| Communion
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2024-05-13
Roman Catholicism does seem to be a uniquely punitive faith. God's always got His eye on you, and He'll kick your ass if you step out of line.
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| GOD
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2024-05-13
True enough. Most monotheistic gods are just budget crowd control mechanisms.
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| To R.K.
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2024-05-13
Amusing.
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| located in the Heart of God hopefully without heart disease
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2024-05-09
It just occurred to me that we don't have a typical Interior Ministry in the U.S. We have a Department of the Interior, but it deals with land, not people. The entire Department of Justice doesn't qualify, though its subsidiary, the FBI, might.
You're right that the U.S. behaves as if all of the planet is part of it.
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| message de mes sages (message from my wise men)
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2024-05-09
True!
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| Everyday in Jumbleorium, XXXVI
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2024-05-08
Life does seem to hollow out as one ages. It's too bad.
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| Two Little Cats
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2024-05-06
Fine memories.
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| protective cocoon (completed)
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2024-05-02
Maybe the saddest moment of parenting comes when your child cries from sorrow for the first time.
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| When I Must Leak
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2024-05-01
Though your reason for doing so is purely practical, some around you might find it disturbing.
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| volatility vs sustainability
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2024-04-28
Actually, gold's value can vary a great deal, due to fluctuations in demand and supply. In theory, fiat money could be kept more stable than gold-based currencies, but monetary authorities, as we are seeing, make mistakes. Maybe AI will save us.
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| facts, opinions and perceptions
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2024-04-28
These are the factors which make elections in "democratic" countries so dismal. First, the journalists who cover the elections are pathetically ignorant because they've learned how to write, but nothing else. Second, the average voter is unwilling or incapable of learning anything about the issues or candidates. Third, the average voter is innately conservative. He or she refuses to consider candidates or policies which upset the status quo. Together, these influences assure that the "democratic" countries are led by non entities who choose not to advance their nations.
Winston Churchill famously said that"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others.". Actually, it's also the best, except for all others. Democracy sucks.
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| the brick and the stock market
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2024-04-21
On the one hand, everything constantly is changing. On the other, nothing changes.
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| ONE APRIL MORNING
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2024-04-20
A pleasantly economical slice of life. Nicely done, Allen.
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| Snapshot
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2024-04-20
Nice!
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| RE-LIGHTING MY FIRE
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2024-04-19
Inspiration can come from the most unexpected things. It's always welcome.
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| KITTI'S WORDS
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2024-04-19
This one leaves me wondering.
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| Environs
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2024-04-17
A poem that is almost Taoist in its serenity. Nice.
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| up to date
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2024-04-15
If you are interested in philosophy, start with epistemology. After you learn that nothing can be proven, walk away, as all of the rest of philosophy is nonsense.
But don't do as I did and go into economics. As it's taught in the United States, economics is nothing like a science. It is pernicious propaganda that is intended to justify the misery and inequity which characterize that society.
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| the unfinished ballad of
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2024-04-10
Well done. Haunting.
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| A Letter To Her Husband
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2024-04-08
Brilliant!
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| ON AIR TODAY
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2024-04-05
After the hospital stays and foul weather, even lead boots probably would have felt wonderful.
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| The Sprawl of Things
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2024-04-03
This is a common affliction. I'm not one of its victims, but the rest of my family...
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| Promethium
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2024-04-01
A very sad, affecting tale of one who never arrived? One who couldn't stay long?
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| go to bed, bukowski
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2024-03-31
Nicely done.
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| The Upskirts of Town
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2024-03-29
Saucy stuff!
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| UNIVERSAL RIGHT!
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2024-03-29
An admirable goal. It's hard to understand why anyone would find fault in your blessings.
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| Greendale
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2024-03-23
I'm a big Zuma fan, and an admirer of Neil Young generally. He's one of the few people whose guitar playing is instantly recognizable (except on This Note's for You; that one caught me by surprise). I'll look into Greendale.
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| I am looking after the wife who will find me
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2024-03-20
Humans are the dogs' gods.
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| A Poet's History
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2024-03-19
Like OTP, I disagree. You've outgrown artifice, and now your poetry has an appealing naturalism.
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| Guts and Glory at 28
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2024-03-19
Great concluding metaphor.
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| Lines Written In Windsor Park
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2024-03-18
Good one!
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| The train has left
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2024-03-18
Having taken the wrong train out of Munich, I arrived too late at the airport, missed my flight, and had to pay $2,000 to get back home. I know exactly what you mean.
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| Fragments from a Memory Lost in Time
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2024-03-17
Stream-of-conscious poetry (which shows up too frequently here) usually gives me a pain, but this nice. Well done, Sameen.
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| Trump
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2024-03-17
Trump is a low-rent demagogue who appeals to losers, members of our privileged class who feel as if they're not getting what they deserve. The world is full of people like them, and that's why Hungary, Italy, Turkey, India, El Salvador and probably other countries I haven't remembered have elected demagogues like Trump.
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| YOUR CHOICE
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2024-03-14
This is a very serious question in our age of effortless, relentless connectedness. Nicely done, Allen.
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| ship in the bottle (revised)
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2024-03-13
So it seems, and to what end? Nothing is resolved.
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| Everyday in Jumbleorium, XXXVI (Stopped in its tracks)
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2024-03-12
Leaving a trail of unused, unusable goods, like a slug's slime trail. That's how most of us age.
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| The Hum
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2024-03-09
I hear you! I have hundreds of CDs which I never play because the shit pop which plays constantly at work has caused me to hate hearing music.
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| Deposition
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2024-03-08
Nicely written.
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| understandable poem
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2024-03-06
And we wouldn't know.
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| for you
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2024-03-06
I agree with Sona.
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| Jen
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2024-02-29
A little gem.
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| the unions
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2024-02-28
So it would seem.
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| Erie Waters
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2024-02-26
Not really good, but interesting.
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| Critical Source
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2024-02-25
Of course. As Winston Churchill said, "History is written by the victors."
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