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Essays In Pride and Vanity: March 2011
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. It was a surreal sight, seeing those two. The guys I remembered in college were long gone, replaced with men of quiet focus. The exuberance and aimlessness of youth had been replaced with the temperance of responsibility. They were soft-spoken and clean-cut. They wore suits. While they were still the same friends I’d always had, they were so obviously different it was somewhat shocking to me. Any dreams I might have had took a back seat to the stuff th...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: Freedom and Vigilance
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Sunday, September 11, 2011. I wrote the following almost 10 years ago to the hour, after the events of September 11, 2001 had (for the most part) unfolded. The blog didn't exist then, so I simply emailed everyone I knew with it (which I am sure my friends were thrilled about). It was quickly (and effortlessly) eclipsed by other writers with much better thesauruses on their Pentium II desktops. Read it for what it was- the emotional, confused ramblings of a 23-year-old assistan...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: I vs. you vs. us: The Epic Battle
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Thursday, May 19, 2011. I vs you vs. us: The Epic Battle. I went to see a comic recently. Not this kind of comic:. This kind of comic:. The headliner was funny, but the warm-up guy sucked for the most part. He had moments of humor where you could tell he was a funny guy. But he was fidgety and unrehearsed, clearly not at-ease with his set. But he did pull out something that wasn’t so much funny as it was thought-provoking. Mmm… existentialism…. Let’s dig in. Century, mostly to...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: Kicking Ass & Chewing Bubblegum
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Monday, May 28, 2012. Kicking Ass and Chewing Bubblegum. Today is Memorial Day. While I have not posted a blog in over a year. My observations leading up to this day have compelled me to dust off this bad boy and spout about things I am only marginally qualified to spout about. Let's rock. Does anyone remember Brian Wood? Probably not. He was a video game designer. He did this to save the lives. Actually it IS rocket science. This guy. This is the guy. Well, I suppose that unl...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: Taking A Side
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Sunday, July 10, 2016. This is a hell of a thing, isn’t it? I mean… what now? Who am I supposed to hate this time? Which wrong group is absolutely wrong and needs to pay dearly for their astounding wrongness? Do I choose the marginalized, those of us who have less and suffer more and feel (rightly or not) unsupported and unloved by those of us who have more? What support picture do I put on my Facebook page? What meme pictures do I share? What hot takes must I post? I’m ...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: July 2016
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Sunday, July 10, 2016. This is a hell of a thing, isn’t it? I mean… what now? Who am I supposed to hate this time? Which wrong group is absolutely wrong and needs to pay dearly for their astounding wrongness? Do I choose the marginalized, those of us who have less and suffer more and feel (rightly or not) unsupported and unloved by those of us who have more? What support picture do I put on my Facebook page? What meme pictures do I share? What hot takes must I post? I’m ...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: Hooray For Death.
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Monday, May 2, 2011. It’s almost like a game. You sit down with friends or family on a quiet evening, have a couple of drinks (or not) and sooner or later you start playing “Where Were You On 9/11? 8221; And everyone remembers where they were, what they were doing and who they were with when planes struck the World Trade Center. Now (thankfully) we can play a new game: “Where Were You When bin Laden Died? People remembering the fallen…. People condemning the celebrations.
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: May 2012
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Monday, May 28, 2012. Kicking Ass and Chewing Bubblegum. Today is Memorial Day. While I have not posted a blog in over a year. My observations leading up to this day have compelled me to dust off this bad boy and spout about things I am only marginally qualified to spout about. Let's rock. Does anyone remember Brian Wood? Probably not. He was a video game designer. He did this to save the lives. Actually it IS rocket science. This guy. This is the guy. Well, I suppose that unl...
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Essays In Pride and Vanity: June 2012
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Essays In Pride and Vanity. Sunday, June 3, 2012. Howard Stern and The Death of Big Oil. Last weekend, half of the nation of Germany ran on solar power. Half of the country. And they’re not even that sunny. Suck it, Spain! How did they do it? I read the article to my wife. Her response was, “Wow. We’re… not… going… to be the most powerful country in the world for much longer.”. Not really. Lots of countries thrive outside of the international spotlight. Just ask these guys. Americans thrive on being the ...
