Tag: Ethics
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Lesson Learned
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? I don’t remember exactly, but it was enough that I had to use a credit card since I didn’t have that much cash on me… It was definitely NOT worth it. In any and all of those situations with ‘expensive’ meals,…
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Another Empire In Decline
Yes, I posted this before, but looking around, it’s glaringly apparent to me that it needs reiteration… The New Dark Ages from the declineof the Roman Empireto the Renaissanceover a thousand years clerics and kingsdestroyed most of theancient wisdoms andsciences with burnings books and witcheswith blood-letting‘’medical’ and warringconquering and conjuring religious incantationsrule by ‘divine right’butchers…
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Eternal Now
Eternal Now To paraphrase CarlinNow doesn’t really existMerely the intersectionOf future and past Here it comes..Wait, it’s almost hereNot yet… Now? Nope, it’s already goneHere it comes again… But It’s the future thatDoesn’t exitMerely a hoped-forPotential,An assumptionOf continuation And the past isOnly a story of what hasPassed throughThe eternal presentOnly a pattern ofNeurons strung togetherTemporarily…
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Full Of It
Full Of Sh*t You’re full of sh*tI’m full of sh*tWe’re all full of sh*tNot our faultJust a biological factBut, we do our bestTo eliminate itOn a daily shift But, our bodiesAre not the onlySh*t sourcesWithin us There’s also theMental and emotionalCrap in that cesspoolWe call our minds Not our fault, reallyThe ‘quality’ (or lack thereof)Of…
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Identity
Identity All human Identify isBased on storiesStories we tell ourselvesBased on the storiesHanded down to usSince the beginning ofHuman communication It’s how we establishOur reality These stories are basedOn the selective informationWe call ‘facts’Our vested interests in tact Since there are no such thingsAs ‘facts’Just perspectivesAgreed to byHumans in charge The ‘winners’So to speak But…
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The Last Morning Ride Of July 2025
The Last Morning Ride Of July 2025 Pristine summer morningSky-domeA few tiny cloud-wispsOver the eastern peaksSome dappled shadeFrom Mesquite andPalo verde as weStreak throughThe barriosLike the tortoiseIn that fabled race More debris inThe dry riverbedLeft by recededMonsoon floodwatersOr just maybeThe same ol’Litter bugs Crossed the new bridgeBetween Grant andEl CaminoThen headed homeSouth into a lightHeadwind…
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Another Brick In The Wall
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)by Roger Waters We don’t need no educationWe dont need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeachers leave them kids aloneHey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. We don’t need no…
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Letters Of Marque
Letters Of Marque That is ‘privateers’In other wordsPiratesSanctioned byGovernments toRaid and capture, orSink enemyCommercial entitiesShips, stores, and suchTheir frequent symbolThe Jolly RogerCrossed bones withA grinning skull atop Even though letters of marqueOfficially faded awayIn the mid nineteenth centuryModern ‘privateers’That is piratesStill ply their tradeBut they are now calledHedge fund managers I’m waiting for themTo use…
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Late July Morning Ride
Late July Morning Ride Blindingly bright morning skyClear, but for a few wispsOver the northern peaks Pale yellow butterfliesFlit among the amarilloBrittlebush blossomsBlooming for the umpteenthTime this seasonTuesday’s monsoon watersPooled underThe Congress Street bridge A new bridge spans theBrush-clogged, homeless andTrash strewn drySanta Cruz riverbed While a lone hawkSurveys his riverbedHunting ground from aHigh bridge…
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Mr. Skin
Mr. Skinby Spirit from their album ‘Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus I raise my head in a touchy situation(Mr. Skin you know where you’ve been)Yes, I make my bed in the heart of the nation(Mr. Skin you know where you’ve been) I know it’s a trait human loveTo make all the people hollerNa, na, naNa,…
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