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Pride Goeth

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by GrayMatters

We joke about Speaker Pelosi being the highest level official in the USA while the higher level sleazes of the GOP are out of the country at once. “Quick, throw their stuff out on the lawn and change the locks!” we jest, but around us in news in the United States of America are decidedly …

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Criminal Behavior

November 1, 2018November 3, 2018 by GrayMatters

Crime is bad. There are degrees of crimes, but it is generally bad to commit a crime. I wonder how many crimes I’ve committed this week, probably only trespassing and speeding, but who’s to say, for sure? There are laws on the books that we laugh about; they’re still laws, and violating them is still …

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Lesser Evil

July 25, 2018August 12, 2018 by GrayMatters

(This is part one of two. . .) For the first three or so decades of my life I learned to think the way I was taught in the midwest, to view voting day, if I bothered to show, as choosing between the “lesser of two evils.” As a 50-something now, I look back on …

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Who Cares What You Thought?

March 17, 2018March 22, 2018 by GrayMatters

Ah, Women’s History Month, the month when men are supposed to acknowledge that half the population of the world contributes approximately half of the work and advances in society and approximately ALL of the human beings. This one has been especially fun what with sexists and racists running the government into the ground and asshats …

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Self-Evident, My Ass

March 14, 2018May 8, 2018 by GrayMatters

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But do we? hold these truths to be self-evident, I mean? I don’t think we do. We think we do …

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