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New Milestone for this Website

Just noticed from my site metrics that this website should surpass the 25,000 mark for total pageviews – an event that should happen sometime Wednesday, March 27. For a site that is devoted almost exclusively to one individual’s opinions, assertions, rants, jibes,...

Glimpse into the Future

Last night, as Kit and I watched an episode of the original Star Trek, we encountered this scene of Doctor McCoy handing Spock what I would have to describe as a computer diskette (as Nurse Chapel, on the left, looks on). We’d been seeing this sort of thing in...

Brother, Have You Heard? A cas...

Advocacy is all about getting someone else to do it. We live in the age of advocacy. I was going through the drive-through lane at a major-chain fast food restaurant recently, and as I reached the window and handed over my debit card, the employee asked me, “Would...

What Does It Mean to “Ta...

Of all of God’s commandments, the one that—my guess here—gets broken more often, and more unconcernedly or unknowingly, than any other is the Third Commandment. That God-given edict, found in Exodus 20:7, goes as follows: “You shall not take the name of the...
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The Ranch That Barbed Wire Built Neighbor, it’s been a long time. The longest time, really, between issues to have intruded into the slightly-more-than-a-year that I’ve been e-publishing Something Solid. Thanks for being patient. I’ve been busy! You may have noticed already that two new endeavors now occupy my time: the...
recent from American West The Ranch That Barbed Wire Built
The Ranch That Barbed Wire Built Neighbor, it’s been a long time. The longest time, really, between issues to have intruded into the slightly-more-than-a-year that I’ve been e-publishing Something Solid. Thanks for being patient. I’ve been busy! You may have noticed already that two new endeavors now occupy my time: the...
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