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We have a neighborhood

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:23:46 +0000

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We have a neighborhood listserve. I spend almost no time on it, in part because the reports I get from my wife about what occurs there seem like an argument for the idiocy, or maybe pettiness is a more apt word, of village life. It's not that I think neighborhood issues are unimportant. They can be very important. It's that the things people sometimes complain about, and try to use that list serve for, are petty and idiotic, embarrassing really. If you're going to be petty and idiotic, please resist the temptation to go full Monty and put it on display on the internet for the whole neighborhood to see.

Memory lane - an old

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:04:19 +0000

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Memory lane - an old girlfriend of the white light occult sciences variety thought that a hyperlocal media-type news service of "oh, I saw a cute squirrel today" would lead to more beauty & tolerance. Me coming from the land where they shoot squirrels realized this was less than a stellar idea, and the idea of replacing "40 million ton comet speeding towards earth as end of humanity likely" with "chipper songs from sparrows as I strolled around the block this morning" seemed more doomed to failure than the planet. In short, I predicted the Internet - and the end of humanity.