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Lies, Damned Lies and Exit Polls
This post won’t surface until September, but it is being written in January after whiling away a few hours on a UseNet newsgroup where people obviously don’t take their medication on a regular basis. This time the discussion, such that…
Life’s Forgotten Absurdities
“The human super power is forgetting. Who knew?” That line is from a “Doctor Who” episode when Clara Oswald was still his companion. It’s a line which means more each and every year. In truth it might turn out to…
Tuesday’s Five Minute Flash Fiction #8: Prompt “Giving”
This piece/challenge is the last installment of the 8 pieces of Five Minute Flash Fiction planned for the Summer season. If you’re a writer/participant and wish for the team of writers at I.A. to continue the weekly Flash Fiction initiative,…
The Wifi Antenna Saga Part 2
The first installment has a different name and can be found here. My Hawking antenna showed up and I took some time to install it. Of course it only offered a wall mount using flimsy plastic stuff. No way that…
How to Sell a Lie
You’ve all heard of different methods of “selling a lie.” Probably one of the more famous is a quote from a show I don’t remember. “I find the most effect method of selling a lie is to hide it between…
Your Next Set of Tires Will Be Made Out of Soybeans
This has been a long time coming. Tires made in large part from soybeans. Oh, don’t write this one off as some socks-in-sandals wearing tree hugger cause. I’m not pushing it here because I grew up on a farm and…
A Retirement Home for Spooks, Spies and Assets
Go ahead, let your mind chew on that title for a minute. It’s the dirty little secret nobody told you about when they came to recruit you, playing on your patriotism and desire to server your country, whatever country that…