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skipper wrote a new post, 100010101110111001001101111110010001011000100100101 7 years, 3 months ago
Next Thursday mariner plans to upgrade his eyeglass prescription. He is undecided about whether to tune them to Dish or DirecTV or Roku; so many options . . . His bridgework is due for an upgrade, too. Should he […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Feeling Change 7 years, 3 months ago
The Third Wave, a centrist organization performing polls and focus groups, visited the back country of Wisconsin to interview focus groups about the 2016 election.[1] The sessions were rich in wise, insightful […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Thought Provoking 7 years, 3 months ago
Mariner and his wife consider The Atlantic the premier magazine in print today. The Atlantic provides thoughtful, rational and valuable articles that cover society from one end to the other. Below, mariner […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Political Nits 7 years, 3 months ago
One has to hand it to Donald. One of his personally owned golf courses claimed a charity donation of five million dollars. NPR dug into it and could only find $80 thousand. The golf course and Donald have ignored […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Each Brain Talks Differently 7 years, 3 months ago
We are not aware that we talk the way our brain thinks. For example, if you are a good administrator, it’s because your brain thinks procedurally. If you feel a duty to always complete tasks, it’s because your bra […]
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Interesting food for thought. I’ve been thinking about my prejudices, too, and how to clean the slate.
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skipper wrote a new post, The Basic Donald 7 years, 3 months ago
If one believes in an Old Testament God, one would join Job on his pile of dung and lament the incursion of Donald at such a critical moment in global history. Change in culture is painful enough. Why, God, have […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Health Care – Captive of Capitalism 7 years, 3 months ago
Mariner wrote a post recently that said the first thing to fix in health care is its costs. In the nineties, administrators and a new breed of eager MBAs decided to change how health care was billed. Instead […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Moments that Shape Our Lives – Santayana 7 years, 3 months ago
Every one of us at times has learned something from a person, a book, an event, a family circumstance, that changes who we are, what we believe, how we behave. Often the person is a mentor – someone who exposes a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Still Visiting Nova 7 years, 3 months ago
Mariner begins to understand the virtues of being a grandfather. He and his wife have lived a long life and have become wise in observing the Yin-Yang, the flow of timeless bonding, the energy of living an active […]
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Son appreciates the sentiment, but Grandfather has more of a role than he may realize. (It is the dog who has no useful role!) Perhaps the role of the Family is to provide grist for the mariner’s musings…
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Being a grandfather is most awesome. The grandchildren are always happy to see you. Since you do not see them on a daily basis, the subtle changes they under go in growing up are much more discernible.
Grandparenthood is God’s reward for putting up with your own offspring and if you’re lucky you’ll get to see their offspring inflict some of the same frustration you had to endure. The circle of life becomes complete.
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skipper wrote a new post, Visiting Nova 7 years, 3 months ago
Mariner visited his newly born granddaughter for the first time yesterday. Ever since he was four years old he has developed a reputation for speaking of newborns with ignorant, perhaps unwarranted, certainly not […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Whence the Next Religion? 7 years, 3 months ago
Throughout mankind’s current history, that is, since about 10,000 years ago, some form of religion has guided culture’s behavior. Even in the days of Cybele eight millennia ago, the original mother of creation rep […]
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skipper wrote a new post, As Guru prepares for his Flight 7 years, 4 months ago
Before Guru leaves on his flight around the world, mariner asked him for a few markers that may be too imminent for a long study of the world’s circumstances. He commented on a few while he dressed in his flight s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A Look from Space 7 years, 4 months ago
Having Donald in one’s life is like having fleas. Donald is similar to fleas because he is everywhere, in everything, constantly irritating, and a handheld disinfectant is too little too late – that is, erase one […]
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skipper wrote a new post, US Isolationism is Suicide for the US – Soon! 7 years, 4 months ago
A tip from fivethirtyeight’s (Nate Silver) website:
$31.4 million – – Russian trade with North Korea doubled to $31.4 million in the first quarter of 2017. Reuters found eight North Korean fuel ships that l […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Let’s Visit Economics 7 years, 4 months ago
The intense distraction swirling around Donald masks economic reality. Mariner has gathered some insights from expert observers of the economy who pretty much are not swayed by the soap opera involving Donald and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Heaven is Taking a Beating 7 years, 4 months ago
Way back in time, before mariner was a grandfather, he worked for a living. He had an interesting job as a consultant who designed computer system upgrades for large corporations then developed the project […]
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You are not grandfathered out, you are grandfathered in! Go Team Nova!
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner became a Grandfather today 7 years, 4 months ago
Her name is Nova. It is a celebration by the family, definitely a high point of the year. Many acts of recognition and admiration will occur this year and many years to come.
Mariner has mixed feelings about […]
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Congratulations on the new tad, Grandad.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mississippi River – An Insight into Harvey and Global Warming 7 years, 4 months ago
A past post spoke of the Mississippi River in natural terms. The River is a vast flood plain worthy of an unrestrained course without canyons, gorges, and other constraints. Typical of many rivers in the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Populism – a Grist Mill for Change 7 years, 4 months ago
The United States is not the only nation suffering an interruption caused by populism. Remember Brexit? And Greece, France, Italy, and just about everyone in South America? Don’t forget Ukraine, thrown into c […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Donald has been Busy 7 years, 5 months ago
Today’s post is a copy of the Washington Post article about what Donald has undone. The press has under-reported this activity which is as damaging as the absence of legislative progress. It is recommended that t […]
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Aaaargh! Good grief, I just hope a lot of this is tongue-in-cheek.
Wish I could say the same. All the examples except the medical option in a bridge already are marketed. A different medical package has existed for some time embedded under the skin. Mariner did not venture into computers that can think for themselves; Google has a computer that taught itself the board game ‘GO’ with no human input. Mariner can’t find Chicken Little at the moment . . .