Category: Ethics
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Jerry Lee Lewis’s 62nd Birthday Party – Memoir Addendum
Jerry Lee Lewis’s 62nd Birthday Party – Memoir Addendum In late September, 1997, I took my last vacation from Kinetico (didn’t know it would be my last at the time…), where I’d worked since ‘92 as a technical writer of manuals, proposals, and the like for their industrial water purification and reverse osmosis business (mostly…
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Equanimity … Ha Ha Ha
Equanimity … Ha Ha Ha irritated and depressedequanimity shatteredconstantly under firewith humanity’sin-humanityconstantly in myface whether from the newsor friends ‘helpful’un-asked-forcynicalupdates andreviews destroy my desireto just open my sensesbe here and nowin the desert’smorning sunrolling alongbeside the drySanta Cruz to hell with‘humanity’ andso-called ‘civilization’we’re obviously gettingwhat we deservecommensing ourinevitableend –LE – 9/11/25 PS: The only real…
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The Go-Go Bar – Memoir Addendum
The Go-Go Bar Hey lady dancin’ on the barCan’t help but wonderWho you are Sippin’ a beerWatching your reflectionsSway in the mirror Other drinkers watchin’Your sways to the musicHeads are bobbin’ Your expression unawareFreely groovin’Like you’re not really there As I fall under your spellCan’t help reactin’While passions swell Hey lady dancin’ on the barCan’t…
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Save Our VA Friday Morning Shift-change Protest
Save Our VA Friday Morning Shift-change Protest – 9/12/25 There were six of us for this morning’s protest…; -) No Kings No Dictators No Fascists No Billionaires Keep private sector hands OFF our VA!
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Romeo Is Bleeding
Romeo Is Bleedingby Tom Waits Romeo is bleeding but not so as you’d noticeHe’s over on 18th Street as usualLooking so hard against the hood of his carPutting out a cigarette in his handAnd for all the Pachucos at the pumpsAt Romero’s Paint and BodyThey all seeing how far they can spitWell it was just…
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Broke the Bank Agian
Broke the Bank Again Broke the bank last timeThey want to do it againBankrupt next gen’s hopes A mean dirty trickDeceit, November repeatStick it to our kids And generations unbornKeep them wage-slavingIn debt forever –LE – 9/9/25
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Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage There’s a thin lineBetween love and hateThat sometimes fadesOr blurs with time…Can becomeFull-blownEnding in crime But take a chanceMake a split?Better the devilYou know than… Based in fearLives searedWith vendettasAnd feudsThat sometimesMake the news Love and marriage…Goes together like aHorse and carriage…–Frank Sinatra What’s love got toDo with itGot to do with…
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Save Our VA Protest At Ajo Gate
We’ve been protesting the attempt to defund and privatize the VA, the current administration’s canceling of the union contracts (except for those of the so-called VA ‘security’ forces). There were six of us this morning. We protest every Friday morning from 7:00 AM to around 8:30 AM for the VA’s morning shift-change. We get a…
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Nights In White Satin
Nights In White Satinby Moody Blues Nights in white satin,Never reaching the end,Letters I’ve written,Never meaning to send. Beauty I’d always missedWith these eyes before,Just what the truth isI can’t say anymore. ‘Cause I love you,Yes, I love you,Oh, how, I love you. Gazing at people,Some hand in hand,Just what I’m going thruThey can understand.…
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Maximum Efficiency – Judo
Maximum Efficiency – Judo A concept common toEastern martial artsOne I first learned inJudo classes from the start Maximum efficiencyUse of energyMotion and momentumLarge results withMinimum effortsAlso applying the physicsOf levers and fulcrums Another principle is:Aside from class warsOne’s only true enemyIs one’s selfNot your opponentAcross the mat orIn the street One must defeat one’s…
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