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Category Archives: GenY Thoughts
Optimism is having faith in youth — a blogoff
17 CommentsI spent about ten solid minutes this afternoon just staring outside my office window yesterday afternoon. The wind had kicked up fiercely, the sky had gone gray and the yellow leaves were blowing off the roof, falling all around like … Continue reading
GenY, get off your a** and vote, you jackwagon!
4 CommentsYeah, that’s the old geezer me yelling at you to go vote. Does a blog post from a geezer voter make a really bad motivational speech to go vote? Probably, but I’m doing it anyway. This is not the first … Continue reading
Get your own ham; it’s all about self reliance
41 CommentsWhen my son was just shy of his fifth year, we found ourselves in an Old Country Buffet on a Saturday afternoon. For those of you not familiar with the format of the all-you-can-eat-for-one-low-price buffet, these places usually have a … Continue reading
The kids will be ok
Leave a commentSomeday, every kid in high school now will inherit the world we leave behind. And I think they may be deciding right now that they do not want to live in a permanently divisive, hate-filled community. March 30, 2010 — … Continue reading
When it is time to pass a torch
3 CommentsI spent this Sunday morning listening to a fair amount of Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan and a few other more obscure artists who moved and continue to move an entire generation. The first thought I had was “how … Continue reading
In the world of creativity, they will remain average
2 CommentsI 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
Corporations are not human, people are not brands
1 CommentThe 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