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Call for Consciousness

It’s documented if you really want to see it. About a century ago in the US a bunch of wealth industrialists and financiers hired some pointy-headed elitists (a think tank) to devise a means for hijacking classical liberal arts education. … Continue reading

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Economics Doesn’t Exist

Economics isn’t a useful body of theory, but merely a set of observations of human behavior regarding material goods and services within a specific context. I was certified to teach economics, one of the few public school teachers with that … Continue reading

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Grok Kids?

People with a lot of unfinished business from their own childhood don’t do well with kids. From my experience with kids and watching others with kids, it would seem that’s the number one cause of doing so poorly with children. … Continue reading

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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 1)

(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Lots of folks offer various kinds of guides to installing Debian. This is just one more. Why Debian? It’s easily the single best escape from MS Windows for most … Continue reading

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Linux, Security and Control

Running Linux doesn’t merely put you in charge of things; it grants a sense of power you won’t easily get from Windows or Mac. But it’s really about the people involved. The primary reason Linux computers seldom get viruses is … Continue reading

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Linux for the Common User

Because of my long experience with teaching in general, and teaching Linux in particular, I am a firm believer in task-oriented instruction for computers. I’ve been playing with Linux for about 20 years. I’m not a guru, just a power … Continue reading

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Job 13

Job reminds his friends that they aren’t addressing an inferior, someone lacking a good solid education. Nothing they’ve said is new. For seven days they sat in proper silence until they decided to judge Job. Had they not opened their … Continue reading

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Programming for Failure

America has been following a concerted plan to destroy itself. We begin with the fundamental moral statement of God’s Law Covenants: Social stability is an end in itself. The single greatest factor in moral reasoning is asking if something afflicts … Continue reading

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Play a Logic Game

Want to play a game? It won’t be global thermonuclear war; we are likely to get that some other way. Let’s play a logic game, instead. It’s something you probably heard in your early secondary education years. Yeah, it’s juvenile, … Continue reading

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Ecclesiastes 11

Human wisdom works best when properly informed by revelation. Solomon proposes some lessons not obvious to human reasoning, but obviously useful when examined. It’s difficult to say whether Solomon suggests in this first verse that we should be charitable or … Continue reading

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