Eight Days to Amish

No Paychecks . . . No Prospects . . . Always How one writer struggles to elevate from the hammock, overcome his God-given laziness and earn a living in a cruel world that insists he work. (The title of this blog is in no way aspirational or should be considered an endorsement of the Amish lifestyle)

Monday, February 28, 2022

Hooray! It's time for February Tweets of the Month

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  • Anytime I hear someone in charge say it's time to "re-think" a misguided decision, I automatically assume zero actual thou...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Today I mansplain the unheralded virtues of mansplaining

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  (718 words) Note: The story you are about to read is mostly true. The names have been changed to protect my sorry ass. It was about ten ye...
Monday, January 31, 2022

January Tweets of the Month!

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• That tears come in only one flavor -- salty -- is a design flaw useful only to those who feel a profound sadness over things like pretzels...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

The joke Einstein thought was hilarious wasn't

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(679words) I’ve said, truthfully, I had nothing to do with raising our kids until they were advanced enough to get my jokes. That means that...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Einstein & whatever happened to rooms called "the study"

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  (583 words) I’m thoroughly enjoying Dennis Brian’s fine 1997 biography, “Einstein: A Life,” about perhaps the smartest man who ever lived....
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Checkin' in on New Year's: Was there a Year Zero?

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  (620 words) As other revelers were nursing hangovers, making resolutions and game-planning for a new year’s worth of unpredictables, I did...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Best Tweets of '21!

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  Yes, it's time once again for my annual exercise in ego and tedium; a compilation of nearly every tweet from the entire year. There...
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