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Leeway

Posted on Monday, January 18th, 2021 by Will Cox

Many folks have mocked Mr. Trump for his frequent golf outings, on the one hand because he did the same to Mr. Obama, and on the other because they think he sho...

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Graham Greene on Bullshit Jobs

Posted on Saturday, August 8th, 2020 by Will Cox

“It’s a living,” she said. “It’s not a real living. All this spying. Spying on what? Secret agents discovering what everybody knows already…” “Or just mak...

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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 Simple Rate Tweak Should Do It

Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 by Will Cox

Last week, the Federal Reserve and others lowered interest rates in an attempt to counteract the effects of COVID-19 on the economy. Also last week, The Economi...

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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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Wrong Problem. Wrong Solution.

Posted on Friday, August 9th, 2019 by Will Cox

I intermittently listen to the news while driving, and heard several stories on NPR’s All Things Considered, regarding a raid by Immigration and Customs E...

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What Would You Do?

Posted on Thursday, March 28th, 2019 by Will Cox

If money were no object, what would you do? If your income were divorced from your work, what would you do? If you earned the same regardless of occupation, wha...

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Impulses

Posted on Saturday, March 16th, 2019 by William Cox

ACTION REQUIRED, the e-mail demands, NOW. Give money. Sale! One day only! You might like this video. Sign our petition now or terrible things will happen! How w...

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The Empty Illusions of Advertising

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

I love the serendipity of an unexpected find when looking for something else. Today I found “Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money” (1978) by Jo...

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A Procrastinator’s Love Song

Posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 by Will Cox

Lots of things to do, there are lots of things to do.Lots of things to do, there are lots of things to do.If I got up this morn, then I could do them too.Lots o...

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Cast Your Eyes Upon the Sky

Posted on Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 by Will Cox

The room darkened. I stood to turn on the lights. This done, I turned. And looked out the window. The Internet samples pretty pictures from others’ lives....

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Step Away From the Computer

Posted on Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 by Will Cox

Nestled among the advertisements for upscale apartments (Enjoy Four Seasons Fort Lauderdale! Only $4,300,000!) in this week’s edition of The New York Time...

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Science Fiction was never entirely about The Future

Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Will Cox

I’ve been reading stories from the November/December 2017 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine that I picked up at Barnes & Noble before C...

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A Happy Little Working Song

Posted on Friday, December 1st, 2017 by Will Cox

This still doesn't answer the question of how to afford food without a job.

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Need-Blind

Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 by Will Cox

The ocean of the Internet tosses up interesting flotsam, and then it sinks below the surface again. I read some passing reference, perhaps by Niall Ferguson, to...

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 by Will Cox

Norway’s SlowTV film of the Bergen to Oslo railway is beautiful and deeply moving: nostalgic. Though I’ve never been to Norway, I’ve ridden tr...

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What Are You Here For?

Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 by Will Cox

I have, since I found out about it, wanted to go to space. I remember, vividly, watching Star Trek in color in the basement of a friend who had television and s...

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What is Work? What is Rest?

Posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2016 by Will Cox

I spent the other day driving around. First to the doctor, where he confirmed my self-diagnosis of bronchitis, and then across the county for an x-ray to elimin...

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Qualification

Posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 by Will Cox

Certain things aren’t talked about — or at least are avoided because they are uncomfortable to talk about — in polite society; that is, beyond our immediate cir...

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Sorry. Procedures.

Posted on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 by Will Cox

I’m reading an excellent book right now that’s discussing how we surrender our judgment to detailed rules and procedures: The Death of Common Sense: How Law is ...

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