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Brother, Can You Spare a Job?
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Dear Hirer, CEO, Human Resource Person, or Head Honcho: Please consider what follows as perhaps a joke, something the “guys” in the office might find humorous, even to tacking up over the water cooler where the never used suggestion box hangs. I promise not to mention in the telling here the plays of Mamet and […]
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Evolutionary Psychology
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Of late I have been trying to get through a series of books that have revolutionized genetic thinking and science since the 1990s. Names that I have not heard before -Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, except for Richard Hawkins and his meritorius diatribes against all religions and religious thought. As I began to wade into these books I […]
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I Get No Satisfaction
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Four years have passed since I entered the world of blogging and bloggers, the ubiquitous “challenges” still exist on websites, those feeble attempts at becoming “well-read” or “educated.” Or how I can impress others. Learning as competition, the hunger games. (I read 50 books, all of them classics, and I am so learned, so gifted. By the […]
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Book Review – Writer’s Block Party!
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by Lisa Taylor of Writer’s Block Party posted March 27, 2012. I just want to share with you a sample of the description given for this book on amazon: “In this impressive and varied collection of creative essays, Mathias B. Freese jousts with American culture. A mixture of the author’s reminiscences, insights, observations, and criticism, the […]