Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Every now and then we need a new scapegoat, i.e., something that receives the blame for all the faults and mistakes of society. We have one. Ah, the datacenter. It is big, noisy, ugly, and raises my electric and water bills. I hate it. It is the cause of all ills in […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We decide that, “We will stop this and never do it again.” That holds until we discover “this” and “it” are necessary. I flew to California recently. On the flight, instead of giving us a bag of pretzels, they gave us a clear plastic bad that had a small clear plastic bottle […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Signs of wealth are all around us. Do we notice and act accordingly? I sit here on a Saturday morning in a coffee shop as usual “writing Pulitzer-winning essays” (what I tell passers by). And, as usual, someone is setting up the Bloody Mary bar. They put a few classes of ingredients […]

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