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The real tyranny in America

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I watched MSNBC Chris Matthews’ The Rise of the New Right yesterday. I learned almost nothing new about the Tea Party and the conservative movement, but Alex Jones’ quote, “We’re in deep tyranny. Deep, deep, deep…” keeps ringing through my … Continue reading

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I am he and we are him and we are too big to fail but not too big to protest against

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A friend of a close relative just got himself hired on as a firefighter with a department right up the road. They gave him a really cool light bar for his truck, a pager, a bunch of gear and most … Continue reading

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I don’t care what you think while I’m reading this book OR the endless search for the perfect sound bite

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I was reading Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years on my iPad using Kindle when I flipped the page and saw a passage underlined with a dashed line. “Hmmm, what’s this,” I asked myself. I never highlight … Continue reading

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Can you circumnavigate the world by clock and fist?

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This post is a comment to Chris Brogan’s post on education that quickly got out of hand. More was written and deleted than is shared below, but my education also taught me about discretion. Let’s leave it at that and … Continue reading

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You are not lost, you are here and you know where here is, right?

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You are reading DogWalkBlog.com, produced and written in Dayton, Ohio. We are talking with Rufus, one of the key writers of the blog where he reminds us why you, time and place are important for blog credibility and reader orienteering. … Continue reading

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In the world of creativity, they will remain average

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I ran across this video by Tom Peters. Watch it. Peters makes some powerful points about education, but I don’t entirely agree with everything he says. Creativity is not a refusal to color inside the lines. It is a conscious … Continue reading

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Corporations are not human, people are not brands

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The logic of the latest Supreme Court ruling has me scratching my head a bit and scrambling to read my copy of the United States Constitution. I found all sorts of references granting rights to people, but none that granted … Continue reading

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