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• The Zen of Breadmaking

  April 11, 2020

  This shall not be so much as a treatise upon making bread, or on making anything, but upon learning how to do things.  Let us begin with what to do with my interest in "the opposite sex". When I was about fourteen, I became enamored of a girl whose family had come from Latvia to…

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• Future Retail Grocers

  April 2, 2020

  In future, retail grocers will be nothing like the supermarkets of today. In the grocery marketing of today, there is "The Circus"...  Retail grocers want the customer to be able to find the products that they want on the periphery of the store.  There is a natural tendency to enter the center of...

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• It May Be Time To Take Another Look At Amy Klobuchar

  April 2, 2020

  The last series of Democrat Party "debates" has been little more than a circular firing squad.  To some extent, they were about letting the viewers know a bit more about the candidates views and qualifications, and also, the opponents lack thereof.  The main purpose was to show the Kingmakers how...

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• Desultory Path to … Back Home

  March 28, 2020

  I had a Priority Mail envelope to send to the company in Birmingham that handles my stock purchases. I headed off to Raley's on Folsom to post it, then do some small amount of shopping. The customer service counter was closed "temporarily". I could have driven to the Rosemont Post Office, but the...

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• Research Indicates That Cognitive Deterioration Typically Accelerates in Ones 70s

  March 24, 2020

  According to an article in The Atlantic, "Research indicates that cognitive deterioration typically accelerates in one’s 70s." I find this to be true. Just today, I found that I could not remember all the names of the members of The Tubes. There is, of course, Fee Waybill (aka John Waldo), Roger ...

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• Bat Shit Crazy

  March 24, 2020

  People haven't been this bat-shit crazy since the War of the Worlds radio broadcast of 1938. We were just at Smart & Final. They had all registers open with as many as eight carts in each line. Each cart had at least one big package of toilet paper in it. At Safeway, no one had…

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• Since The Beginning of the Donald Trump Presidency

  March 24, 2020

  Since the very beginning of the Donald Trump presidency there have been attempts to topple that presidency. The failed hoax at claiming that he was elected through collusion with Russia cost the taxpayer dearly. Now, those whose fervent demand that Donald Trump not be re-elected, have created a f...

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• Definition of Certain Terms

  March 24, 2020

  Let us begin with defining two terms: IIP (Intentionally Induced Panic) and CWF (Cry Wolf Factor). I had previously mentioned a video, which appeared to take place in a "big box" store not unlike Costco. The stage is set that the pallets, stacked up with packages of toilet paper, are at the back ...

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• Advantage Versus Privilege

  July 27, 2019

  Often people, who consider themselves to be "intellectuals", spend a great deal of time thinking about things.  More often than not, what they imagine to be the TRUTH turns out to be an untestable hypothesis.  The fact that their hypothesis cannot be subjected to scientific examination does not d...

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