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Ricki's rants and rambles: Dealing with people
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Monday, July 13, 2015. So, someone I do volunteer work with - let's call her Gina, not her real name - called last night. As she was calling obnoxiously late (IMHO; I get up crazy early and teach an 8 am class so I go to bed very early. Most of the people who actually care about me know this and don't call after 9 pm), I let voice mail take it. An example: a long time back, Gina said, "I don't want a leadership role in the group next ye...
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Ricki's rants and rambles: April 2015
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Wednesday, April 29, 2015. We need more of these. Some bright spots, in the whole Baltimore mess:. Allegedly, some ministers went out and formed a human barrier between protestors and the police - so on the one hand, the police wouldn't be so tempted to use their batons on people merely yelling stuff, and on the other, I hope, to dissuade the protestors from throwing stuff or otherwise becoming violent. Monday, April 27, 2015. I don't k...
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Ricki's rants and rambles: a quick observation on the election
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Wednesday, July 01, 2015. A quick observation on the election. If the 2016 presidential race becomes a Clinton vs. Trump race, I WILL be voting third-party. I dunno. I'm trying not to answer the question, "How screwed are we? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You've heard of Moaning Myrtle? Well, this is kind of like that, only more ticked off. Junk Food Science - snapping back at the anti-good-things nannies. Wise ass says what?
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Ricki's rants and rambles: February 2015
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Sunday, February 22, 2015. So apparently a University of Wisconsin (Whitewater) English professor offered her students extra credit for going to a protest against Scott Walker's budget cuts (Apparently the credit was offered either for participation or "observing" but I wonder what her reaction would be to a student supporting Walker). But even beyond that - going to a rally for extra credit? What the heck is that? But there's an expect...
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Ricki's rants and rambles: This is news?
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Monday, July 27, 2015. I guess nothing else is going on in the world because the news channels right now are running extended stories on Caitlyn Jenner's new reality show. I dunno. I wish Caitlyn well in her new life but I suspect she's going to have it far, far easier than most transgender people because she's famous. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You've heard of Moaning Myrtle? Not Exactly Rocket Science. Wise ass says what?
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Ricki's rants and rambles: January 2015
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Saturday, January 24, 2015. I am not a big fan of grocery shopping. In my town, we have a walmart supercenter; a small, locally-run place which is v. nice but is more expensive and has limited selection; and an outpost of a mostly-dead chain. I don't like the walmart for myriad reasons, but I shop there because they carry certain things the local place does not, things that I need. So yeah, we're kind of stuck. And there are the poorly-...
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Ricki's rants and rambles: March 2015
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Wednesday, March 25, 2015. All the conservative commentators who are practically slavering over "the end of universities" (apparently to be replaced by proficiency tests and people reading books as autodidacts) make me so tired. If universities go away, how will I earn my bread? For that matter, how will lots of medical/engineering/physics/etc. research get done? For that matter - most of the rise in tuition? Sunday, March 22, 2015.
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Ricki's rants and rambles: November 2014
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Thursday, November 20, 2014. Something small and nice. There's a lot of ugliness in the world right now. One of the things: the likelihood of the Grand Jury verdict coming down in Ferguson today, and what may come of that. While looking at a story online about that, I ran across this:. Don't read the comments. Ugly, snarky people even being ugly and snarky there). That’s what this holiday is really about.". We need to remember that....
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Ricki's rants and rambles: June 2015
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Saturday, June 27, 2015. A couple random thoughts. Maybe disrespectful, I don't know:. What's going to happen if a same-sex couple goes to a baker and wants a wedding cake with the Confederate battle flag on it? And all the Hollywood (and other) hetero couples who said, "We're not getting married until EVERYONE can get married" - time to step up to the plate, no more excuses. (And I suspect in some cases it WAS an excuse). I get that th...
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Ricki's rants and rambles: inconveniences
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Ricki's rants and rambles. Come for the rants; stay for the grammar! Friday, July 03, 2015. There's been some discussion of county clerks and the granting of marriage licenses, and concern that clerks may be required to do something that is objectionable to their personal beliefs. For example, pharmacists not wanting to sell birth control pills that a doctor has prescribed). I'm guessing on that last one but I bet I'm correct). Or "What if the only Unitarian clerk works really limited hours? Just as ther...