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Why Can’t We Have Nice Things?

Posted on Saturday, April 11th, 2020 by Will Cox

I’m presently dividing my time between walking, reading John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society (1958) 📚, and watching Yes, Minister (1980-1984), in lieu ...

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Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 by Will Cox

Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 – NEJM

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#SomethingBeautiful

Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 by Will Cox

Life.

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Vulture Capitalists and Other Scavengers

Posted on Friday, March 20th, 2020 by Will Cox

Remember what happens to the country when the unfit ruler comes to power? I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities o...

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Essentially Worthless?

Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2020 by Will Cox

If non-essential work has stopped, and you didn’t enjoy that work, why was it being done?

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O Ye of Little Faith

Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 by Will Cox

You may have heard this story. Once there was a devout man who was certain in his faith. All who knew him remarked on his righteousness, for he was constantly t...

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Tips for an Advanced Lifestyle; or, Coping with Working from Home

Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 by Will Cox

Wake up you sleepyhead Put on some clothes Shake up your bed Oh, you pretty things, brush your teeth Bathe Make, eat, and clean up from breakfast Lift weights G...

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A Thousand Points of Light

Posted on Sunday, March 15th, 2020 by Will Cox

Many things have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. Love is not one of them. “Faith in the time of Coronavirus“, James Martin, S. J., Americ...

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Escape from New York

Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2020 by Will Cox

If you’re old enough, you might remember that in 2001 all non-military air traffic was grounded for a couple of days. It’s possible, under extraordi...

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“Trust in Me….”

Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2020 by Will Cox

Oh, Kaa. Only one-fifth of us trust the federal government to do the right thing. And trust — in politicians and the government they represent — turns out to be...

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You Can’t Eat Silicon

Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2020 by Will Cox

Even the New York Times is feeling apocalyptic, with a nice piece about folks learning primitive skills. There’s an air of novelty about the article, but ...

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Why Don’t We Like Joe Biden?

Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2020 by Will Cox

FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon, Jr., offers some hypotheses to answer the burning question of why Millennials don’t like Joe Biden. Well, I don’...

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Old Friends

Posted on Saturday, January 4th, 2020 by Will Cox

Wandering around a new library this morning, guided by Dewey’s decimals, I walked back into the past and other libraries I’d read. Here, I found Anthony Boucher...

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🏫

Posted on Sunday, October 27th, 2019 by Will Cox

Does this emoji 🏫 say schoolhouse to you? What about it does? U+1F3EB is defined as “[a] school building with multiple storeys, and a clock on the front.&...

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That loud susurrant rumble overhead

Posted on Thursday, October 10th, 2019 by Will Cox

Minutes it took, passingDoppler’s effect fading, distantResolved at lastto the fuzzy purr of my cat

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Success

Posted on Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 by Will Cox

At soccer practice last night, one of the players remarked, quickly, as he was moving, “Now I understand.”

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Spreading Warmth

Posted on Friday, September 27th, 2019 by Will Cox

I’ve been watching the fog expand out from the creek. The hills were a pale pink over the thick fog, and there was a definite end to the cloud. Over the p...

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Posted on Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 by Will Cox

During warmups at soccer practice yesterday: Me: “High knees. Jumping jacks. Squat. Push-up. Jump high. Squat. Push-up. Jump high.” Player next to me: “Are you ...

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Color Contrast

Posted on Sunday, September 8th, 2019 by Will Cox

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Send Reminder to Cancel Auto-Payments

Posted on Sunday, August 11th, 2019 by Will Cox

Dearest Facebook: Thank you for reminding me to delete Messenger and WhatsApp by sending me an unauthorized notification. Best Regards, It may not be as well kn...

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