Like most (all?) content creators, I like to look at my blog statistics, mainly to see how many views the site is receiving, but also other statistics, as in the posts that are attracting the most views, which indicates the categories as well, and also, where these views are coming from.
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What would happen this fall id no one turned out to vote? That includes mail-in (absentee) voting as well. Would that be a genuine Constitutional Crisis? I would say definitely, yes because our founders never posited the thought, anywhere I am able to look, for the possibility that people would be so fed up with government that they would just not show up to the polls every two years.
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I used to believe that being spiritual had something to do with religious belief. And it does. So whenever I heard an atheist say something about bing spiritual, I thought, How can you be a non-believer, and be spiritual? I never said anything to the people I heard say things like that, I just thought, at the time, they were either not authentic in their atheism, or, more probably, confused. To me, it was hypocritical to claim to be an atheist on one hand, then on the other discuss being spiritual. Aren’t those two things completely different?
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Hi, My name is Jim, and I’m an addict. No, not an alcohol or narcotics addict, but a technology addict. As much as I complain about all of this stuff(that I own), I can’t seem to put it away for long. Sure, I don’t stay awake 24/7 moving from device to device or ecanning the Internet on one of my various means. No, I do put it down. To sleep. For a while.
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Looking at some posts over on Linkedin, I came across a post by an. older Information Technology person (I guess)complaining the way he was interviewed by someone in HR at a prospective company. This had me angry one second and laughing the next because, well, as someone that has a long career in IT, I’ve been through the same situation multiple times. I’ve come to call it, The Runaround.
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