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Trapped by Proprietary Technology

Beware of the curse of proprietary technology!

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Death of the Old God

The great American Playwright Eugene O’Neill said, in the early 1900’s:

“The greatest challenge to mankind over the next century will be the failure of science and technology to replace the death of the old God.”

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Pinching the God Particle for Profit

Science has pinched God!

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Saving Private Soldier Sperm

War not only ravages the body.  War savages the family.  War kills the future.  War assassinates the now.  A soldier’s widow was forced by the United States Military to not only fight for her right to her dead husband’s sperm, but she was also pressed to dig into the muck and mire of a rigid military system that was unkind to the living remnants of a fallen body.  Kynesha Dhanoolal won the battle, but lost her war.

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The Suicide Heart and Craving Chicken

Are we only our DNA?  Or is there more to us than just blood and guts?  Can the essence of us live beyond our lives and into the horizon of others?

Two recent stories about The Suicide Heart and a Craving for Fried Chicken lead us into the realm of the uncanny

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Mouspad Droppings and the Wood Scar

I have a beautiful, old, writing desk I use all day every day.

Notice I said “writing desk” and not “computer desk” because there’s a big, scarring, difference between the two that you shall soon learn.

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Proof of Life: Dying to Blog

You and I know blogging is a job — and a genetic obsession — and now, thanks to The New York Times, everyone else knows blogging is killing us all.

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