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Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.” - Dr. Seuss

Job creation

[Got a coffee? Got at least ten minutes to burn? This is going to be a long one, even for me, so don't even start unless you've got some time. ] What's something good and positive and useful that you and your neighbors can do, naturally, almost without thinking, and that ...

Carbon Tax?

Ok, how about a carbon DIOXIDE tax? Well, I can support it if it taxes not just the carbon-dioxide-producing aspects of a product or service, but also the production of other pollution. If we must tax at all, then tax goods by how far they have come, and by how polluting and ...

Wal-Mart versus Union

Wal-Mart has made no secret about its preference to have nothing to do with unions. Unions have made no secret about their preference to force Wal-Mart to accept unionization of their workers, raise prices, lower service, become less profitable, etc. A few years ago, in a small town in Quebec (was it ...

Pollution, carbon offsets and all that

A few centuries ago, western European, especially British, inventors and entrepreneurs began employing what became "industrial" methods of producing goods. Before then, everything as made by hand. Artisans made only a few, high-quality items because it was so time-consuming to practice their craft (even with lots of indentured apprentices to ...

Ban first - ask questions later

NOTE: As with many of my posts, this one started life as a Letter to the Editor. It might or might not have made it all the way to the Letters page of my local rag.  This one was written several weeks after there was a nation-wide (in Canada) flurry ...

Artists ripped off! Studios going broke! - more

A guy named Sam posted a comment in a mailing list, where the topic of the moment was DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act - an American concoction that has its imitators around the world), DRM (Digital Rights Management - the technological attempts by several manufacturers to prevent you from enjoying ...

Art and Government

This topic keeps coming up in so many ways, and it's always because some wrong-headed sort is eager to throw other people's money at artists of some stripe. Not to date this blog too badly - because the topic seems timeless after all - but the most recent incarnation was a ...

The Danger of Creating Guilds

Preamble: A mailing list for Technical Communicators (i.e., techwriters and trainers and related folks) was having an oft-rehashed discussion about how their main organization/association in the USA and Canada, called the STC (Society for Technical Communication), wasn't doing all that much for them, and they should consider turning it into a ...

Artists ripped off! Studios going broke!

Some artists - at music, cinema, fiction, etc. - as well as some recording and distribution houses, publishers, and others have embraced the internet and found new ways to distribute their work and make a buck at it. Others are the moral equivalent of the buggy-whip makers who were all ...

January 4th 2009
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chocolate

I have met many people who don't eat chocolate. Some of them are dieting, so they are depriving themselves.  Tsk!  So sad. Some of them say that they simply don't like chocolate. I believe that they mean what they say... I just don't believe that they're actually from this planet.  Never mind ...

stink

This is about how NOT to stink. PREAMBLE Some of you don't sweat, and you never smell bad. Go away. The rest of us emit body odor to a lesser or greater degree. Actually, most of what we emit through our pores is odorless. Even the sweat in our armpits is odorless when ...
January 4th 2009
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Don’t park your butt

Ok, sorry-in-advance, but we're going to get down to some basic poop, here. Literally. We're going to discuss intestinal function, plumbing (yours), diseases (like diverticulitis, crohn's, irritable bowel, appendicitis, and even hemorrhoids, also constipation), and I have to mention all this in the first couple of sentences, or the search-engine bots don't ...
January 1st 2009
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Prostate

There. I said it. Werty derd. I'll be talking to the guys, here, about something that'll affect most, eventually. Actually, I already talked about it in my other post on sleep and natural-source calming drugs. So, no need for more than a quick summary here, and then get to my observation/recommendation. If you are ...
December 31st 2008
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Sleep easy with this one

I said I'd mention another herbal product I'd actually found useful - as opposed to the vast majority (that I've tried - still a tiny minority of all the concoctions you can find out there, but... where was I? oh yeah...). It was called Hi Qi Restful Sleep. You're sleepin' OK?   ...

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