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Month: September 2013

Taking The Long View

Taking The Long View

Hello to everyone reading this now, and to all of those who will read it during the thousand years of my millennial reign. I want you to perform a little exercise for me. It won’t take much effort, but I will need you to stick to it; don’t look at your phone, don’t watch TV, don’t browse the internet, don’t listen to music, don’t do anything other than what I’m about to have you do. Now, pay attention: Read these…

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The Seduction of Anger

The Seduction of Anger

Hello Everyone, thank you for reading. You know, by now, that I like to joke, and play, and to bring more than a bit of levity to whatever topic I’m discussing, but I’d like to be serious with you for a moment. I want to ask you a question, and that question is, “How often are you seduced?” I’m not talking about a sexual seduction, I’m referring to an emotional one. Would you like to know why I ask this…

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Being An Idiot in the Information Age

Being An Idiot in the Information Age

Have you ever had a discussion with someone who lacks the ability to accept straightfoward, factual information? I’m sure we’ve met one or two out in meatspace, but what about online? I bet if you stopped to think about it, you could name dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of people you’ve had, we’ll be kind and say discussions, with, who deny the most basic of factual statements. In my life outside the internet, such as it is, I have never…

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The Creative Communication Conundrum

The Creative Communication Conundrum

Hello, everyone. I am always delighted to have you here, taking note of the lint filter that is the tumbling dryer I call my brain. I do hope, by now, you’re getting comfortable with this new format. It’s nice, at least to me anyway, that I don’t have to set the camera just right, or have to bathe regularly just to offer my thoughts and opinions on things; and while I do indeed bathe regularly, I also want you to…

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The Artful Science

The Artful Science

Hello, my dear friends throughout the void, tuning in on your advanced media devices with the fashionable headphones, and the lovely faux leather carrying case. It is I, The Lotus Tea Dragon, here to give you the grapes on what I think, and what I think about what I think. It’s all a lovely sculpture, chiseled with the fine points of my wit, and polished with my tongue of reason. Okay, that metaphor ended badly. Still, I do like to…

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