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wordmaker7
politics
6y
Insights from TV surfing
Watching Kennedy interviewing Andrew McCarthy on her show tonight, and intrigued by the fact that AM's bookcase behind him is basically a display case to promote about 3 books, all of which are cover-forward
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metoo
6y
#MeToo Avoided or Chance Wasted?
Here's a potential #MeToo story I may have avoided tonight: Sitting at the bar at the Brewhouse West, Nashville, watching football and preparing to watch a Red Sox game on an adjoining screen, and I see
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wordmaker7
testing
6y
A testing paradigm for the 21st century
Okay, let’s begin with some points of agreement: 1) Common Core has been a disaster; 2) No Child Left Behind is better labeled as “No Child Allowed to Learn”; 3) the mania for testing children repeatedly,
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puns
6y
I can't hold back on this one; this afternoon, I created a JOKE!
What prize does a rain-cloud get, just for showing up? ... wait for it ... ... almost there ... ... give up? A precipitation trophy!
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dioxin
6y
How soon we forget
We knew this in the friggin' '60s, man! Agent Orange (aka 'dioxin') has just been remarketed as Roundup! No different from vioxx or how many drugs?
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brady
6y
RE: HGTV bought 'The Brady Bunch' house and plans to restore it
I am Amazed it took HGTV this long to grab this oppty; is there no vision in the place? With all the "reality shows" now, along with the nostalgia for the culture of the '60s, '70s, '80s (anytime
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fakenews
6y
Sometimes I do watch "tv news coverage" (while also watching the Sox on MLB-TV, of course)
Entrepreneurial venture: (Steve Schallu(sp?) on Kennedy) -- Make the Trump star an auction/raffle/contest venue; shovel-ready jobs, destroying it and restoring it ... Meanwhile (other guest, somewhat
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peace
6y
My video finally finalized
This is the absolutely final edit of "(Whattaya Gonna Do) When Peace Breaks Out?"
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harlan
6y
Harlan Ellison Memories
I once actually had the pleasure of meeting and even talking one-to-one with the recently “crossed-over” Harlan Ellison. It was fall of 1975 (or maybe spring 1976?), and the woman I now refer to as “my
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nashville
6y
Things that occurred to me the other night
Some up some down ... I love what Ray Barnes did to create a video for my song, "(Whattaya Gonna Do) When Peace Breaks Out?" If hyou have not seen it yet, please take a look. (I have come to
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libertarian
6y
How is it the Volunteer State, when it is clearly run by tyrants?
by Steve Trinward I really did not think it would come to this, but I believe it is time to declare war (in self-defense, of course) on the Tennessee Election Commission thugs … Their latest autocratic
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carol
6y
Revolution in the Volunteer State?
by Steve Trinward It has been said recently, by many people, that we are in the midst of a major paradigm shift. (Scott Adams calls it a Golden Age.) If you live in Nashville, or many parts of Tennessee,
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television
7y
My debut?
Well I made it! I show up in the background at the Bingo scene (far right of screen), just before the lady jumps up (beside Maddie and Jonas) screaming "Bingo!" (Nashville, season 6, episode
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crowdfunding
7y
How can Steemit augment indiegogo?
Had a discussion earlier tonight, in which two things came to light: 1) Steemit and similar things are attempting to fill the gap that has always existed in worker collectives: they forget that any enterprise
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wordmaker7
education
7y
Repost of my John Holt interview
I decided to try this again; I guess it got lost in the holiday shuffle? Hard to believe it disappeared so completely.
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unschooling
7y
JOHN HOLT: ON TEACHING YOUR OWN AND OTHER HERESIES
The following article is based on a series of interviews I conducted back in 1981. The assignment was initially commissioned by a major libertarian periodical (which shall go nameless), but when I submitted
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tax
7y
Notes on tax reform (part 2 of 2)
The other point I wanted to make is the amendment that did not pass the Senate’s standards, introduced by Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee. They proposed a reform to the Child Credit procedure, aimed at
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tax
7y
Notes on the impending tax bill (part 1 of 2)
I have seen two things of interest in all the current debate over “tax reform”: a commentary at that compares the House and Senate versions (and misses the point on at least half of the differences, and
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trump
7y
Trump as honeybee?
I got another inspiration from a minister recently; actually, it was a metaphor. In a lesson about “Success Strategies,” Rev. Michael Woody, co-minister (with his wife Dyann) of the Music City Center for
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libertarian
8y
On feeling the Johnson
As a longtime, fairly hardcore libertarian, this year I have felt like I’m stuck between Scylla and Charybdis. On the one hand, I am supposed to be horrified that once again the Libertarian Party has picked
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