Tag: politics
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What I’d like to know…
I am a data guy, so I typically only look at a limited number of sites when I am looking for news on the COVID-19/SARS-2 pandemic. I like to see numbers, facts, absolutes when I am trying to make some decisions, not that I can make any legitimate decisions. Even in understanding what is really…
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A Political Post
I find it funny. Social media is rife with the fallout from the plea deal of the current president’s staffers on campaign finance fraud. I am not surprised by this. I am not a fan of Trump. I wasn’t even a fan from his days on reality TV (or is that still going on?). In…
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We’ve Got to BE Better
I’ve wanted to keep politics largely away from this site. Those topics I’ve brought up recently have been intended to be in a questioning form, talking more about the idea of something abstractly rather than any direct commentary. My thought is that I want to provoke contemplation rather than an emotional reaction to what I…
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Micro-Nations
In another bout of trying to flush out an idea by writing it out, I wanted to explore an idea I’ve been mulling over: corporations as micro-nations unto themselves. If one thinks about it, one can almost envision it. Departments can be seen as statehoods or in a smaller scale, local municipalities. There are laws,…
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Us vs Them
It seems too daunting to even approach. This modern cynicism that appeared to culminate with the election of Donald Trump continues to grow in this country. This “us vs them” mentality. You are with us or you are against us. What the hell does that even mean? It doesn’t matter which side of the political…
Jeremy C Kester 