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Debate: On

You campaign with poetry, but you govern with prose.
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Watching the debate for a second time - the first time on the elliiptical, this evening. Thought - like every other blogger out there, I’m sure - that I’d post some thoughts. My (caustic) thoughts in green. Comments that grabbed my attention in [...]

shadowplay

Doing research on modern terrorism (under Soviet war in Afghanistan), I came across this photo in Wikipedia:

Soviet soldier in Afghanistan, 1988. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev

Found myself thinking about light and shadow, about all the contrasts inherent in war. Soldiers giving peace signs to small children. A baby-faced 19-year-old screaming for his [...]

To be or Not To Be (human); Iraq War Taxation, Networking Detriments

(to skip to the “point” of this article, drop down to the paragraph beginning “I’m not so far afield as I appear…”)
If you read the end of my October 5th post titled “Networking, On-Demand Software, Disaster Scenarios,” you know I’m concerned about our increasing dependence on infrastructure/technology networking. I also have reservations [...]

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