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Google Censorship

You can Google for censorship and get a lot of information, but you aren’t likely to find much about Google’s own censorship actions. No one should be surprised effective political dissent will get results, and those results aren’t the political … Continue reading

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Music and Self-Deception

I’m not a real musician. I just happen to be able to sing some, and can almost read music — I can pick out the correct notes on a keyboard, but can’t actually play. People tend to like my singing, … Continue reading

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Womanhood: The Big Western Lie

Fundamental to our modern Western notion of what men and women ought to be to each other is the Western Medieval Mythology of Mariolatry. Please note: I don’t attack revering Mary as the mother of Jesus, and this is not … Continue reading

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Clueless: Tulsa World News Site

Where I live in Oklahoma, the state capital is just a few miles west. It’s a busy place with all the horrors of any modern socialist bureaucracy. Some of the buildings are almost tolerable, but most are ugly as sin. … Continue reading

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A Thousand Ways to Say: Be Yourself

The biggest mistake we make is rejecting opportunities to assert our personal independence. The second biggest is refusing appropriate support when it’s available. Both require you bother to look in the mirror of your soul pretty often. It would require … Continue reading

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Scientific Linux 6: Build Chromium Browser

I couldn’t find a current build for any of the RHEL 6 clones of Chromium, so I did it myself. Short and sweet; if you don’t understand the process of using RPMbuild, you’ll need to read up on that. Get … Continue reading

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Soap Opera World

Few people are more deeply enslaved than those who won’t walk away. These days the thing which angers me most is one person seeking to remove the options God granted to others. This ranges between literal physical force all the … Continue reading

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I Can't Drive…

Reference the famous song by Sammy Hagar song. Today is my birthday; can you guess the numbers? Now, most of those “senior discounts” kick in and you can start making fun of me with symbols of decrepitude and death. I … Continue reading

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Whimper: Google Chrome Broken Again (Updated)

You can probably ignore this whiny-gram unless you need a chuckle. I run Scientific Linux 6, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It includes by default a very nice system security package called SELinux. It was designed with the … Continue reading

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Advertising Slavery

It’s easy to ignore moral principles when it makes you money. Advertising as we experience it today is nothing more than slavery. It’s designed to enslave the choices and wallets of “consumers.” The very choice of the term “consumer” reduces … Continue reading

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