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How You Can Subvert a Trump-Like Boss
Surely everyone has worked for a jerk before, but I feel my travels through that universal experience contain an extra value. See, an executive that I worked for years ago (we’ll call her Jessica, not her real name) was extremely similar to current USA President and Wannabe Dictator Donald Trump. Their behaviors, their attitudes, their quirks,…
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Your Actions Matter
Every time someone protests in some way, someone is there to tell them it makes no difference. I disagree. Every action makes a difference in its own space. Is one activity going to dismantle an entire corrupt system? No. But there’s no other way to get there except via these small steps of actions. Every…
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Book Review: Martyr!
I’m not usually a literary genre person but I saw the hype about Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and gave it a try. PROS: Interesting perspective of Iranian man. He comes to the USA and has common problems (fitting in as a gay man, battling addiction, struggling with injustice.) The repeated mentions of the US Navy…
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Strange Bedfellows – the Good Kind but not THAT Kind
It’s weird how often we have to remind alleged adults that you can agree with a person on Subject A but disagree with the same individual on Subject B – and still not hate them. The phrase “strange bedfellows” in political context (and not a post-drunken adventure context) are productive but unlikely team-ups. It’s so…
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Input Overload Causes Dizziness
The world is only chaos if you insist on listening to too much at the same time. If you played six different songs at the same time you’d go nuts. That’s exactly what people do when they tune into social media and suck down multiple news inputs. You go to a party you don’t interact…
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The War on Christmas Is Over! Bring on the Toilet Wars!
The Jerkiest of Jerks It’s no secret this world is full of jerks. Jerks of all kinds. At the top of the scale, the jerkiest of the jerky, are those that exploit kindness. I mean those who pretend to be in distress, then when a passerby tries to help, the criminal strikes, robbing (or doing…