Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Happy SMILE: THE DAILY POST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE We may be glad to see the end of snow, but the dogs sure liked it a lot!
Day: 04/04/2018
MONEY CHURNING
One of the financial meanings of "churning" is to stir up money so that it looks like you are making money, but actually, you aren't. All you are really doing is "stirring the waters" and making it look like there's a lot of business to lure prospective victims, er, I mean investors. You can do … Continue reading MONEY CHURNING
IN THE CLUTCH: A ROUGH GO FOR AN AMERICAN CONSCIENCE
I started reading through this and realized despite having written in more than a year ago, it’s just as true now as it was then. Somehow, I would have hoped we’d have … oh, I don’t know. Impeached Trump? Convicted a few of his more toxic adherents? Something, anyhow. But here we are, essentially right where we were a year ago last November.
How — why — they dressed and spoke and related to each other as people in their society. We are fuzzy about a lot of cultural material and mostly, we take our best guess as to what they were thinking as they lived from one day to the next in whatever capacity they lived it.
We have no clue about how our great-grandfather confessed his love to great-grandmother. We don’t know the words they used, or their tone of voice. We don’t know if their moment of passion happened at all. We don’t know because they left no evidence for us. They spoke differently, yet surely they held the same emotions we do — and we base all our fiction on that assumption. But of course, we…
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ANYONE LOOKING TO REHOME A LAPTOP?
I discovered today that the reason Garry's computer won't work properly is the battery is dead. It's an expensive computer and just 4 years old, but batteries apparently have a lifespan -- about three to six-years -- and this one went rather early. The problem is because it's such a high-end computer, you can only … Continue reading ANYONE LOOKING TO REHOME A LAPTOP?
