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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson: They’re not laughing with you. If I was a woman, and if Hunter Thompson wanted to marry me, I might make a list. You are not going to shoot guns around this house. No drinking all day, every day. There will be no talk of suicide, at least not around me. I […]
Our national nightmare
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/01/20/thomas-l-friedman-end/ He makes points that linger. There are some good sentences and some really bad ones. Proofing would have helped. Once he tries to “reconnect” with someone through the column. There are too many one sentence paragraphs. Most importantly, it is amazing we survived. Some states went for him. It was scary-close. I think or […]
Dave Kroupa
I’ll go in order of who was hurt most. Cari Farver is first because she was murdered then dragged through the mud for years by the perpetrator. Then there is Mr. Kroupa, second. After that I lose count and it is unfair to try and rank and order them; they include Nancy the mother, Max […]
Happy Thanksgiving
I looked at this blog a few days ago and said to myself, I have to stop writing about these Dateline and true crime stories that grab my attention. I’d rather do my own investigating instead of rehashing things on discussion forums everywhere. Besides, I’d rather write my own story. This is it. Have you […]
overthinking
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8904041/Doctor-reveals-common-phrases-NEVER-say-battling-anxiety-depression.html Anxiety and depression: The facts What causes depression? Research suggests that continuing difficulties – long-term unemployment, living in an abusive or uncaring relationship, long-term isolation or loneliness, prolonged work stress – are more likely to cause depression than recent life stresses. Personal factors like family history, personality, serious medical illness and drug and alcohol […]
Early September, 2020
Precision
I study writing here and this is something that makes every word count. That is why it is reprinted here without permission. I need to reread it before commenting further. When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that […]
The Great Hack
https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/ The link above is for future reading and for now this is about The Great Hack (2019) and ultimately Steve Bannon, who has been in the news. And this. In the video Nix discusses OCEAN. At about the 9:00 minute mark he mentions cookies, social messaging ads, and set-top boxes as media buys.