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A Circumstantial Hustler
If you don't like the corner you're standing on, walk across the street. Just look both ways.
Jul 21, 2024
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Beyond 1984
The lessons of Participation Trophies
Mar 31, 2021
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Letters from The Prison Box #3
Living in Prison
Apr 2, 2021
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Crossroads of Intersectionality
Is the Buffet of Sexual Identities, Preferences, and Fetishes closed?
Feb 24, 2025
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Now World Order
This is the Now-Normal everyone talked about. It's not normal. But it is Now. And it won't ever go back to the before times. Post-Trump begins in 1363…
Apr 27, 2025
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Barns Acrosst America
Riding through America, finding meaning in what’s left behind
Apr 21, 2025
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Be Vulnerable
Wreck a Car, Not a Life
Aug 13, 2021
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Prove Me Wrong!
Can We Argue? I Respectfully Disagree! What IS Rhetoric? Am I Right?
Sep 15, 2025
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Let's Go Mediterranean: #1 in a series about eating food in a habitually healthy way
ONLY YOU PUT FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH. Why do you lack control?
Jan 14, 2024
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Obituary: Conventional Wisdom
The Death of Conventional Wisdom: Trump, Gen X, and America’s Cultural Reckoning
May 25, 2025
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Fuller Brush Man
Not just objects have become obsolete. America underwent a cultural shift that confiscated purpose, consecrated precepts, and conscripted people. Who's…
Feb 3, 2025
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Discussion: Substack Etiquette
Erotica porn, loving trolls, blocked readers, paid opinions, engaged hate, straight-edge, curated thoughts, narrow minds, open hearts, closed…
Jan 5, 2025
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