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Ruminations on Kafkaesque Treacle and the Art of Exhausting a Great Marlin
Aweh, Dear Ruminants and Groupies First, someone abuses their power It starts with someone throwing their weight around. Abusing their authority. An official bullies people, applies rules selectively, or treats public authority as a personal franchise. Someone gets pushed around because the official can apparently get away with it. You object. Perhaps it happened to…
Ruminations on the Guilty Pleasures of Screaming into the Abyss and Pissing into the Wind
Aweh, Dear Ruminants and Groupies, Some people appear to have reached an accommodation with existence. They accept its disappointments, trust its mysterious workings and occasionally post inspirational quotations over photographs of sunsets. I have an internet connection and unresolved objections. There are the compliant and the awkward. People who accept an explanation and people who…
Ruminations on the Suffering of the Educated Class
Aweh, Dear Ruminants and Groupies, Please Respect My Suffering There are people suffering from war, hunger, homelessness, and diseases for which treatment is unavailable. Then there is me. I have a PhD and an internet connection. Every morning, these two unfortunate circumstances collide. I encounter something so confidently idiotic that I briefly lose the will…
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