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brain lynt: December 2014

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Whatever seems important at the time. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. This formation on a rotting piece of beech tree reminded me of my little wildcat Pandora, who died in 2001. She ruled these woods. How much was luck and how much was skill? She never lost a fight, except to her final illness. She spent days and nights in the forest with coyotes, foxes, fishers, bobcats, bears, owls, hawks and roving dogs. She seemed like a superhero. I heard some hair raising noises some nights, but there she...It was ab...

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brain lynt: March 2014

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Whatever seems important at the time. Sunday, March 30, 2014. Having chimed in on a few national political issues over the years, I am constantly deluged with requests for funds to support political candidates and advocacy organizations that represent the interests of the less corporately connected elements of society. Or some other sinister interest might have a fish hook in the bait. The one time I did make a contribution to a political candidate I discovered my credit card had been compromised&#46...

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brain lynt: November 2014

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Whatever seems important at the time. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Through space, time, and the Northeast Corridor. This is a landscape heavy with memories, not because I inhabited it but because of what I believed when I traversed it. My life was full of significance when it had not yet been filled with much else. I think I just recognized a discarded washing machine from 1980. I spent enough time staring out of train windows that year. Does that sound like no. Growing up, perhaps I received so little gre...

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brain lynt: January 2015

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Whatever seems important at the time. Friday, January 09, 2015. The uselessness of mockery. What self-dramatizing murderers did to the staff of Charlie Hebdo. Was completely reprehensible. But it illustrates the limitations of satire as a tool of persuasion. If it FEELS like a blaze of glory to them you'll never convince them that it is really the explosion of a flaming asshole. It doesn't matter: they're armed and dangerous and totally into it. Well-expressed ridicule of asinine ideas may help divert un...

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brain lynt: April 2014

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Whatever seems important at the time. Monday, April 28, 2014. How can economics be a science when everyone lies about money? I had this thought this morning over my eggs and toast, and not for the first time. But economics was in the news, with Thomas Piketty. As I searched the web on the topic "economic science" I discovered that many people question its right to remain among the sciences. It has - as you no doubt expected - its detractors and supporters. The first page of search results. You would go t...

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brain lynt: August 2014

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Whatever seems important at the time. Monday, August 25, 2014. Can thought be taught? This article about not sending your kids to an Ivy League school. Caught my eye on Google News. I contains a lot of questions about the purpose and usefulness of college that I had when I was IN college in the late 1970s. Alas, you get no credit at all for being decades ahead of your time. Over the years I have met a large number of people who seem to do very well without thinking too much at all. Some of them are s...

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brain lynt: June 2014

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Whatever seems important at the time. Monday, June 16, 2014. It's been almost a year since a relative of mine used the conservative assertion that some person or persons we were discussing "isn't old enough to be conservative yet." It still bothers me coming from a family member, when I might have brushed it off from some idiot on the street, the television or in an opinion column. Links to this post. Friday, June 13, 2014. Reshaping the Political Debate. Listening to some political analysis of the fall ...

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brain lynt: May 2015

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Whatever seems important at the time. Thursday, May 28, 2015. The Myth of Happiness. Links to this post. Sunday, May 24, 2015. How do you know? With the 2016 presidential primary already underway, I've been thinking about the way people get their information now, and how it has changed since the time before broadcast media. According to this suspect graph on Wikipedia. Voter turnout was quite high between 1836 and 1896, before dropping off sharply at the beginning of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, ...

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Playing Outside: October 2012

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These are memorable trips short and long by various modes of transportation, true to the best of my recollection. Friday, October 19, 2012. I hate hunting season. I have many friends who hunt. While I don't share their enthusiasm for it, the activity itself isn't what bothers me. I just hate having to make myself visible in the woods. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Back of Class. I hate hunting season. I like to explore under my own power. I like to avoid using motor vehicles, bu...