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What Price Free Expression

Friend, I haven’t done much, “Random Musings and Obscure Observations” lately. I have been sitting back and observing the change to absolute publication freedom the Internet has produced. I can sit here right now and uncensored, write whatever I want and I can post it for other people to read and think about. Printed thoughts are a wonderful invention and the evolution of worldwide uncensored electronic publishing took the lid off the box (Pandora’s). The...

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Opinionated

I posted something a few days ago in Face Book and looking at it some more, it seems a bit more profound than I intended. I wrote it in jest as a reply to how some people tend to reply with certain vigor and bias to an originator of a posted article. They usually expresses their commonly held opinions as fact, and then respond again to the additionally biased content of other reply postings expressing...

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Going Green

My employer Schneider Electric has picked a new location for our Dallas, Texas area office. Actually we are now in Carrollton, TX but are slated to move to a new facility in Coppell, TX which is the next town west of our present location. The lease is up where we are and Schneider wants to “walk the talk” in a much “greener” building than we presently live. So they are starting from the ground up....

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Baboons Need PTO

I watched a program about stress last night. It was one of those things you watch where you see yourself being described and it makes you pay attention. The funny part was it was a story created about a hippie professor and his life long study of stress in baboons. There is a joke there somewhere… but I swear I did watch the movie. It is a National Geographic special. The timing is good. My...

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