Retired CIO - whiskey enthusiast - husband & grandfather. Moonlight as Multiple Alternative Troubleshooter.
Lexington, Kentucky
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I'm sorry but none of your aurora pictures hold a candle to the one my friend took in her yard
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Things have deteriorated so much that the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far), synonymous with deep-rooted social decline ft.com/blackpool
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Struggling to figure out how 8 billionaires who want to replace workers with robots are losing the narrative to 10,000 professional storytellers and the 150,000 hottest people in the world
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GOP: Balance the budget!
So repeal Trump’s $2.1T billionaire tax cuts?
•GOP: NO!
End Corp welfare?
•GOP: NO!
Audit military budget?
•GOP: NO!
So balance the budget how?
GOP: Cancel Vets healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, Meals on Wheels, & school lunch
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Sounds like a Better Off Ted episode with Veridian Dynamics...... Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It vice.com/en/article/qjvb4x/p… via @motherboard
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Last July, a freak summer storm wreaked havoc in eastern Kentucky. As global temperatures continue to rise, communities across Appalachian coal country face the mounting risk of similar disasters, @AndrewAoyama writes. theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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"The internet loves bad news. And that’s bad." @DKThomp writes: theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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This is freaking brilliant, not only for the assignment and the students’ creativity with it, but also for showing how entirely formulaic disinformation is.
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Mixing religion and education is normal practice at Christian colleges, as is attending church services. But what happened at Asbury University over the past two weeks was far from normal.
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Some Texas doctors are so worried about the state's three overlapping abortion bans that they speak in code about pregnancy complications: "I've heard traveling to Colorado is really nice this time of year."
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Must watch, not just for the logic, but for the entitled certainty with which this lawmaker insists his illogical opinion trumps real lives (the Second Amendment did not protect individual rights; it restrained the state. Today’s claim of individual rights is novel).
State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.
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“… and whosoever was not found written into the book of life was cast into the lake of fire …”
—Revelations 20:15
This was the theme of the sermon I delivered off the 20th-floor balcony of the Hyatt Regency in Houston on the morning of Super Bowl VIII. It was just before dawn, as I recall, when the urge to speak came on me. Earlier that day I had found—on the tile floor of the Men’s Room on the hotel mezzanine—a religious comic book titled “A Demon’s Nightmare,” and it was from the text of this sleazy tract that I chose the words of my sermon.
