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Who’s gonna tell them ‘no’?

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026139Views 0Likes 0Comments

They know and show no restraint to their corruptions. Trump and family, Kushner and family. And those are just the obvious ones. Right. Just sell 20 percent of FIFA. To private investors, with Joshua Kushner's (Jared's bro) earmarked as the lead of the investor group. Right. If you still think Trump is great--and isn't as corrupt as…

Allons danser!

MemoriesJuly 31, 2026146Views 0Likes 0Comments

Ah, so much to say on this subject. The short version: My dad once owned this camp, Buffalo Gap Retreat. He was not the most capable person to run such a business, and it wasn't much of a business back then. Nor was social media and more niche marketing available.The place has since come into the…

The case of the curious poop

NatureJuly 28, 2026141Views 0Likes 0Comments

What critter might have pooped this poop? With little pebbles in it? The original shape is somewhat mangled by rain and prodding sticks. Zone 7b. Left on a driveway. Lasting for 10 days or more with little decay, though the shape has mushed down a bit. I'd like to say it's from a toad, but I don't see any…

Cukes aplenty

NatureJuly 25, 2026123Views 0Likes 0Comments

I find it mentally grueling to get motivated to get to my garden plot. Once there, I can be there for hours. No problem. But growing cucumbers for the first time has me motivated to go more often, as I know they are the kind of fruit that can be invisible and unseen one day and…

Yo, Stupid!

Things I PonderJuly 15, 2026124Views 0Likes 0Comments

I think it would be great if We, The People, had an option to mark AI search results and information presented from them as inaccurate. Perhaps we could do so on a scale, such as "This information is ... 1) dangerously wrong, 2) just simply wrong/bad info, 3) missing the point of the question or 4)…

Cultivating local leaders – Columbia, CA & village elections

PoliticsApril 26, 2026754Views 0Likes 0Comments

I wrote this post in 2013 and am updating it a smidge here. In 2011 or -12, while I was director of communications and engagement for the Columbia Association and reporting directly to the CEO, I was tasked with a hard-to-do-overnight goal: to increase the pool of people interested in running for local elections in…

The patterns are there

GenerationsMarch 5, 20261KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I don't know if Civil War Digital Digest or others are talking much about the subject of the negligent creation of a generation of opioid addicts in the wake of the American Civil War. But if you know a smidge about generational archetypes (found in Strauss and Howe’s work), you can…

Xers, the leaders in a crisis

GenerationsAugust 13, 20253KViews 1Like 0Comments

Among the many fascinating things about generational archetypes is how the pieces add up and work together. Nomads, today's Xers, who experience the nadir of a nation's childhood protections in an era run amok with self-indulgent adults, learn as children to survive. They have to as no one else is watching out for them. They learn…

The artist archetype and what’s up next

GenerationsJuly 29, 20254KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Each generation, of which there are four, is best understood as an archetype. Those born between 2006 and (predicted and likely) 2028, and also, somewhat recently, those born from 1925 to 1942, are the Artist archetype. As a big overarching statement, the archetypes and their lifelong legacies go like this -- * Boomers are the Prophets -…

The playa dusts of time

Burning Man, Cultcha, GenerationsJuly 26, 20254KViews 0Likes 0Comments

No question about it: Burning Man--particularly that big event in the desert--is changing. There are many contributing factors, but I'll offer one I think is more dominant than most people know to know that's impacting the event and its culture: generational change. the generational genesis of burning man Burning Man, which started first on a beach…

Make it better for us, please

Things I PonderJuly 7, 20251KViews 0Likes 0Comments

For the life of me, I no be understandin' why there is not and yet a widely -- or at least, to start, a reasonably -- available product that combines BOTH mosquito-repellent and anti-itch properties. Legit. By the time I'm often reaching for mosquito repellent, it is because I've been bit. (Those tiger mosquitoes are the worst!)…

IFKYK – MD FTW

Little BitsJune 28, 20251KViews 0Likes 0Comments

For my fellow "Maryland is a cult, not a state" folks ...