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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions of 2024
Compiled by Lifestyle Reporter and Tea Culture Influencer B.O.B. Shepherd Install “Parade of Heroes” exhibition featuring Michael Flynn, Margorie Greene, Rudy Guiliani, Satan, Marduk, Gollum, Elizabeth Bathory, Ed Geen, Jabba the Hut, and Donald Trump. –Rhode Island Heritage Hall of … Continue reading
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Curiouser and Curiouser
Somehow we all went to sleep and woke up in a participatory theatre of the absurd production. The new speaker of the House believes that the world is 6,000 years old, that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, that Satan is a … Continue reading
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The Cacophony of Summer Lawns: Remembering That Joyful Noise
Summer now is utterly different from when I was a kid. Here’s the difference, in one word: bugs. I know. You are probably thinking, yuck, bugs. But, . . . When I was a kid, if it were Midsummer and … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Politics, Technology
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from Flor-uh-duh Bob’s EZ Entrepreneurial Guide to Charter Riches!
As a would-be artist of the con, you follow in a great American tradition going all the way back to John D. Rockefeller’s father, the Dr. Marvel medicine show guy who traveled the West selling Everything Cures. Many possibilities for … Continue reading
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Your Updated Guide to Scary Repugnican Bedtime-for-Democracy Stories
In 2020-21, the smarter Repugnicans looked at the BLM protests and were scared half out of their Klan robes. (I know, in the age of the Trump Limbo Party, smart Republicans, like Congressional ethics, is a bit of an oxymoron, … Continue reading
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American Kakistocracy: Rule by the Most Ignorant
Can we survive the likes of Trump? How well I remember Sarah Palin giving a speech, very shortly after she was chosen as McCain’s running mate, in which she laughed and sneered, outraged, that the government had spent some x … Continue reading
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The Promise of Ed Tech
Ed tech companies are, of course, trying to take advantage of the pandemic to sell politicians and administrators on replacing teachers with educational technology. So, thought I would try my hand at writing some ad copy for these companies: Help … Continue reading
Reviewing a Review: Annie Murphy Paul on Diane Ravitch’s Slaying Goliath
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchers?), Juvenal, Satire VI On January 21, 2020, Annie Murphy Paul’s “review” of Diane Ravitch’s Slaying Goliath appeared in The New York Times. Being reviewed in the Times is a big deal. Such … Continue reading
Robert’s Rule
ROBERT’S RULE: If you are wondering whether a new policy, procedure, technology, law, regulation, or system is a good idea, just think of the worst person at the worst time in the future wielding its power. –Robert D. Shepherd Bob’s … Continue reading
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Bob Shepherd | Praxis 