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Monthly Archives: November 2011
To My Fellow Christians: A Prophetic Warning
You are wrong about most things in one way or another because you have so deeply absorbed a fundamental error about which you seldom give a conscious thought: The high point of human social and religious development was early in … Continue reading
Radical Management: Budgeting
We work from the proper moral assumptions: Borrowing is evil unless you are starving. I categorically reject the entire budgeting and management philosophy of the West. It’s wrong before the first thought is put down on paper. Unfortunately, it’s not … Continue reading
Organizational Life
Management Craft: It’s an abomination to God that corporations should have “personhood” status before the law, but that organizations have their own life is obvious to anyone. It seems almost a tautology that the best organizations die too young and … Continue reading
People Are the Purpose
I’ve noted often as a former Army Military Policeman, I am anti-police. But I am not anti-policemen. Not only is there nothing to gain from hostility, it’s long past time for silly worrying about rights and so forth. I agree … Continue reading
No Normal Person Is Ever Finished Moving
The worst is over, now. All the stuff we intended to keep is now in another place. Most of those places are fairly appropriate, for now. There are a few items still sitting in inconvenient places, but don’t expect to … Continue reading
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Hatred for Those Who Don't Hurt
There are few things more threatening to wealth, and civilization itself, than mandatory ritual mourning. On 19 April 1995 I was standing near a large plate glass window on the second floor of a college classroom building, high atop a … Continue reading
Great Aspirations
All my life, I’ve never been happier than digging ditches or stumps. Too bad I can’t get paid for it. I’m not competitive in the market right now. I’m too slow with the digging and nobody does trees by hand … Continue reading
Short Attention Span
Washington’s Blog notes correctly much of what we see today has been in the works far longer than most people realize. From my earliest memories, I have always been trying to see the forest, and not just the trees. Something … Continue reading
Work and Play on the Computer
Much discussion and gnashing of teeth over at Slashdot on Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? Yes, we do. That is, unless our only contact with computers is as phones and tablets, which is apparently now the majority. So … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, linux, mac, windows
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Curmudgeonry for the Week
Just a quick laundry list of short items. 1. We are trying to bring Afghanistan under the boot heel of our empire, on one level. We could win, but we won’t. The single greatest factor is incomprehensible to the military … Continue reading