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Universe Selectors, Incorporated Episode 1

by | April 18, 2022 | Alternative Universe, Fiction, Science Fiction | 0 Comments

“Thank you for contacting Universe Selectors Incorporated.  In which Universe would you like to be deposited in this endless moment?” Horace blinked.  “Um… what?” “We currently have access to just over seven hundred thirty-seven nonillion possible universes,...
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A Slap in The Face

by | April 11, 2022 | Nonfiction, Social Media, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Fred’s Facebook March 28, 2022 4:49 PM I recognize that much of what I'm about to write (or, if you’re listening to the podcast, say) is due to seeing the world through the lens of clinical depression.  I see the sadder parts of the world with greater clarity,...
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Envisioning a Future That Allows Us to Travel to The Past

by | April 4, 2022 | Nonfiction, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

I need to begin this evening with a gargantuan disclaimer.  I’m not a scientist of any sort.  I’m not an astronomer, in particular.  I’m certainly not a mathematician.  I have no expertise of any kind in what I’m discussing tonight.  (If I’m...
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One Planet, One People… Please? 2022

by | March 28, 2022 | Empathy, Essay, Nonfiction, War | 1 Comment

Carl Sagan warned us about Mutually Assured Destruction 40 years ago.  If we do survive a nuclear war, the condition of our planet will be such that any life afterward will be miserable.  We humans have spent trillions of dollars in an effort to learn to...
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Is Government The Problem or The Solution?

by | March 13, 2022 | Nonfiction, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Government is the source of more problems than I can count.  If you want to do something, you almost certainly need a license of some sort.  If you live here, they’re going to take your money in the form of taxes.  If you want to have a voice anyone in...
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Cameras In The Classroom

by | March 6, 2022 | Education, Essay, Nonfiction, Politics | 2 Comments

Camera in a Classroom Iowa Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force all public-school classrooms to have a camera that would livestream classes which parents and guardians could view online.  Under the bill, school staff who did not keep...
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Preserving Liberty

by | February 27, 2022 | Essay, Nonfiction, Podcast, Politics, Uncategorized, Voting Rights | 3 Comments

American Flag My first idea was to call this episode “Preserving Democracy.”  The moment, however, that I refer to our system of government as a democracy, someone will shout, “We’re not a democracy; we’re a republic,” and we’re already wasting time on...
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My Life Now

by | February 21, 2022 | Article, Dogs, Essay, Love, Nonfiction | 1 Comment

Speedy Shine and Me It is probably unwise to do this episode because it’s likely to cost me some of the Patreon support that has helped me to get to the life I have always wanted.  Sometimes when someone thinks I’m doing all right, they stop supporting me because...
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The Utopia We Could Create: One Dear Land

by | February 19, 2022 | Nonfiction, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

“No longer do we see slum conditions in any part of our country.  Landlords vie with each other to offer the finest affordable housing to prospective tenants, knowing that, thanks to their basic incomes, they will be able to pay the rent regularly. ...
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The Front Porch

by | June 26, 2019 | Essay, Fundraising, Nonfiction, Welcome to The Front Porch | 0 Comments

I feel like I'm one of those hosts who annoy me during Pledge Week on PBS. I'm watching something I really enjoy, on a station devoid of the commercials that can destroy any work of Art, and in they come with their tote bags and coffee mugs trying to get me to send...
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Thinking About People…

by | September 24, 2023 | Article | 0 Comments

People are, of course, the point of existence.  What happens to them is important.  We love.  We fear and fight and fuck things up.  We build extraordinary lives and worlds and monuments and homes.  We destroy them even more quickly when we...
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by | September 17, 2023 | Science Fiction | 0 Comments

The New Neighbors Episode 3 “It’s just too lonely.  You can’t begin to conceive of the depths of isolation that I must endure.” It was a voice.  No one had ever heard anything like it before.  It came from every device on the planet.  It...
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The New Neighbors Part 2

by | September 10, 2023 | Science Fiction | 0 Comments

April 5 The Oval Office 2:23 AM We sat in a dark silence.  We were essentially drifting through space.  We were all smaller than we had been a moment ago.  In the absolute darkness, the Milky Way became visible in all its splendor and mystery.  The...
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Pride

by | Jun 11, 2023 | , ,

Pride was once considered one of The Seven Deadly Sins.  This began  around 590 AD.  Even in Shakespeare’s time, a thousand years later, Pride was still a flaw.  It was in the same league as arrogance.  Hamlet, for example, tells Ophelia: I am...

This Is Why…

by | Jun 4, 2023 | , ,

I have been asked by more than a few people why I am so terrified of all of you.  I have given superficial explanations.  Certainly, my adventures in the California Trailer in 2021 (recounted in Episode 124: “Unlocking The Gate”) when the gun appeared,...

Privilege

Privilege

by | May 21, 2023 | , ,

Having the time to write is a privilege.Some people have to get up early, make breakfast for the kids, make a lunch for the kids, make sure the kids are dressed appropriately, drive the kids to school — and then, go to work. Some people have to pick up the kids, watch...

A Slap in The Face

by | Apr 11, 2022 | , ,

Fred’s Facebook March 28, 2022 4:49 PM I recognize that much of what I'm about to write (or, if you’re listening to the podcast, say) is due to seeing the world through the lens of clinical depression.  I see the sadder parts of the world with greater clarity,...

The Speedy Shine News

by | Mar 20, 2022 | ,

Speedy Shine by Jenn Agnew Our Top Story There are some other doggos in my neighborhood.  I have to make the barksers at them when they walk by because this is my yard, and I have to defend it from anyone who thinks they can have any of it.  I already peed...

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