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The Curmudgeon Opines | Mobile Phones

January 13, 2017

Mobile phones are a pestilence. A scourge upon the imagination.

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Term Limits | Hezekiah's Lament

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Term limits require a market based solution.

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Augustus, My Sponsor.

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Augustus was baptised in August 2021 in Kastav Croatia at Sveta Jelena. Grateful, I promised the young priest that upon my return to New York, I would embark upon the process to be baptised myself, with Augustus as my ostensible Sponsor. I joined the St Ignatius Loyola Church catechumen process.

“We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.” ~Richard Rohr, OFM

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The Curmudgeon Opines | Re-purposed Hair Dryers

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Where the author misses cleaning his hands like a gentleman.

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New York City Should Implement a School Voucher System

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New York City spends thirty-eight thousand dollars ($38,000) annually per student in the public school system. Big number, deleterious results.

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Let's Pay People to Go to Church

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Empirical studies strongly suggest that people who attend church or who participate in community institutions have better lives and are more productive citizens.

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To my friend, the Nihilist

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Teens, Vape, Mom and Dad

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The reality: Vaping Saves Lives.

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Sir Veillance

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We invite Alexa, Siri and "OK Google" into our homes, providing them access to every word we say. Then the tech companies turn these conversations into commercializable moments, nudging us with curated advertisements to purchase goods and services from their clients.

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Sisyphus Re-Imagined

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The imagery is that of Sisyphus, who represents Private Enterprise.

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A Man's Perambulation

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A Conversation About Reality

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Immigration Kabuki

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In 1821, when Mexico won its independence from Spain, Mexican Texas became part of the new nation. Soon thereafter, the Mexicans relaxed their immigration policies to allow migrants from the United States.

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The Curmudgeon Opines | Mobile Phones

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Mobile phones are a pestilence. A scourge upon the imagination.

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The American Race

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Our collective national dignity of the American Experiment does not countenance that we refer to each other by skin hue, or measure one's patriotism by the continent from whence came our forebears.

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The top-ten most (personally) influential music albums

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It was difficult getting to just ten albums over a span of fifty years.

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Go'ment or Private Sector

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Once one has had to interact with the apparatchiks of the governmental regulatory cabal, it would be virtually impossible not to become, subsequently, a small government conservative.

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Put it away

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Apologies. This author is simply clarifying a common malaprop of which, up, to put, one should not.

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Are you horny?

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Motorists no longer use the car horn to warn of impending danger, its intended purpose. Rather, it is used to convey the shrill, callow sentiments of frustration

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