There is so much disinformation flying around today that it is becoming a threat to our form of democracy. Why that is and who is responsible for reigning it in? That is what this post is all about.
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I really don’t think our current state of being in the U.S. is desirable to any of us living outside the beltway. I believe there is an underlying hunger for all of us to connect with each other. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “A Vast Hunger To Connect…”
For this Sunday’s post on looking back five years I thought I would give you an update on rural Internet service.
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For this Artsy Saturday I give you a piece of glass art I found recently at the Ft. Wayne Indiana Museum of Art. It is a piece from Micheal Estes Taylor. It will soon be included in my new site … Continue reading Glass Art
Most of you Baby Boomers out there likely know where the title of this post came from. Even though I use the film as the header above that is not what this post is about. Instead, it is about how we are giving up our country and maybe the world, just to get a few dollars more into our pockets
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Whether you want to admit it or not, everyone has a dark side. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be human. In this post I am going to reveal some parts of my dark side! Why am I doing that? Because I am an idiot! 🤣
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The US has been a primarily a consumer driven economy for more than a hundred years now and I kinda think Enough is Enough. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Consumer Driven Economy Or…?”Thanks, Star Tribune for saying it so well. Another noble tradition buried in the stench of this presidency. Continue reading This Quick Snippet Says It All.
I have been doing some serious thinking lately. I know it is serious because my brain is getting hot. It is a good thing that I don’t have much hair up there anymore, that lets the heat dissipate better. Anyway, this post is about America’s heritage and how we need to rescue it. This is going to be one of my soapbox/philosophical speeches so hang on.
Continue reading “America’s Heritage”For this Sunday’s Look Back let’s look at the MAGA/Evangelical cult. I never would have dreamed that U.S. Christianity would have taken the fatal hit it has when I wrote the above words five years ago. Yeah, we had the Tea Party back then that was identified as a radical right fringe but for the most part they were not identified as a primarily Christian organization. The phrase “Make America Great Again” and “Evangelical” are now combined into MAGA/Evangelical and are irrefutably joined at the hip. I’m sure the roots of today’s cult were from the Tea Party but it … Continue reading Looking Back – U.S. Christianity
For this Artsy Saturday I give you the Frank Lloyd Wright house near Springfield Ohio. I have been trying out about a dozen apps to find just what I want. This picture is a combination of two different ones. Looks kinda nice in a Van Gogh type way, but I need more practice yet. I give this about a 50/50 between abstract and realism. Continue reading Abstract Realism
No, I’m not talking about a paperweight hospital or the fact that the sole practical purpose of a paperweight is to sit around keeping things from becoming unsettled. What I am talking about is the patience it takes to make a paperweight as shown above. That is what this artsy post is all about.
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Things are rapidly changing in our world and that has far too many of us in a panic. Those that fear change think we are at the beginning of the end in almost anything. But those who embrace change think we just might be at the beginning of the beginning. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Are We At The Beginning Of The End, Or The Beginning Of The Beginning?”
It’s time for me to introduce the final piece of my 2020 trilogy of projects. This one is entitled Rescuing Democracy – at the grass-roots level. That is what this post is intended to be about.
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Since I am house bound through these winter months I have been watching more TV. It seems as though one commercial is from a drug manufacturer convincing you to buy their product and the next is from a lawyer wanting you to sue someone. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “A Class Action Suit…”When I found this post from 5 years ago this week, it grabbed my attention even more than it did then. Symmetry just seems to slow my frantic mind down. It gives me peace in these hectic days. So, here it is again… Continue reading Looking Back 5 Years – Symmetry
The title above seems like an oxymoron. How can something be abstract and real at the same time. This post is about solving that contradiction and my fascination with the very idea.
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One thing I seem to be learning lately is the title of this post. I am a septuagenarian so that may seem like a strange lesson to learn at this point in my life. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Plan Your Life As If You Are Going To Live Forever…”
If you haven’t seen part one of this series I would encourage you to click here and then come back. This post is about how technology and a shift in purpose will determine the speed of change in the coming decade.
Continue reading “Change Has Never Been This Fast – It Will Never Be This Slow Again. – Part #2”
Let’s continue our journey in the Then N’ Now series with a discussion of cars. Anybody that has seen the “Velocity” channel knows that the cars of my era are now worth many times more than their original purchase price. Would I rather have a 1970s car or one made today? That is the topic for this post.
Continue reading “Then N’ Now – Cars”
A few days ago during my post about stale cookies I promised you more info about browsers, especially when it comes to privacy. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Why I Dropped The Google Browser”
This post is about how TimeLine Chronicles, which is a new site I am now working on, is going to take a much broader view of history than anything I have covered at RJsCorner.
Continue reading “Chapter 3 – TimeLine Chronicles and A Wider View Of History”
Ok, I will admit that this post is really not about fake news, but it is about untruths that seem to be so prevalent in the world today. That is what this post is about.
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I am a wordsmith and always on the lookout for new words and new ways to describe my thoughts and feelings. Today that word is
Tenacity
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With my recent obsession with being more creative lately I have come to more thoroughly understand where RJsCorner fits into the scheme of my creative life. That is what this post is all about. Sort of…
Continue reading “RJsCorner – My Public Journal”
From my “Introduction to Journalism” class I took in college I learned that the headline is the primary reason most stop and read an article. I learned that lesson well it seems. 😏 I’m not saying that having Aspie traits is awful, in fact I think they have enriched my life in more ways than they have hurt. But I am saying that another condition combined with Aspie traits makes life almost impossible at times. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “There Is Only One Thing Worse Than Being An Aspie…”
This Sunday’s Looking Back is about one of my favorite Christian books and how I viewed its message five years ago.
Continue reading “Favorites Sunday – If God Is Love…”It is pretty unusual to see malware on a Mac. But, like the one that told you that you need to update Adobe Flash a few years ago, this one wants to install code that allows things like more commercials to run in your Internet browser. I’m pretty sure this only occurs if you are using Apple’s Safari browser and you are visiting sites like Youtube. This particular malware is pretty unsophisticated so has an extreme low success rate for most users. Long story short, if you come across something like you see below don’t click on the OK button. … Continue reading Mac Malware??
Synthesized speech coming directly from brain activities is a somewhat new field of science, but it seems to be advancing at a pace unheard-of in scientific discovery. That is what the post is all about.
Continue reading “Creating Speech From Brain Signals”
No, its not raining today, but for some reason the words in the title above popped into my mind and just won’t leave until I have thoroughly absorbed them. That is what this post is all about.
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For those of us in the Midwest the deepest part of winter is from mid-January to mid-February. That is when the coldest temperatures occur. That, among other things is what this post is all about.
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This post is about the old saying that when you think you are facing imminent death, your life flashes before your eyes! I don’t know if that is true or not, but I would kinda like a longer review of my life than that. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “My Life Flashed Before My Eyes…”
The myth in the title above is surprisingly not that uncommon among our population. I have come across it many times in my life. But this particular myth is not limited to just those who can’t hear. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Myth – Deaf People Have No Intellectual Capacity”
This post is about the start of a drumroll to a significant change in my blogging practices. I am constantly trying to exercise all my existing talents in the time I have left, but I am also still trying to learn new things. That is what this post is all about. Well, sort of… 🤪
Continue reading “My Chaotic Brain & Yet Another Blog”
I have proudly stated here that I am a Jack-of-all-trades. I know a little bit about many different topics but that does not mean I can’t know a lot about a few of them. This brings up the idea of finding your passion and how I have changed my view of that. That is what this post is all about.
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One of my New Year Resolutions seems to be a perpetual one with many of us. I vowed to get more exercise in 2020. But it seems to be especially important for us in our senior years. Why that is what this post is all about.
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I’m going to let you in on a little secret that we nerds learned but often forget. That secret is “Don’t let your cookies get too stale”. That is what this post is about, but it is not what you think it is.
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I knew the title above would get your attention. No, I am not a Shirley MacLaine type believer, it is just that I would really like to be around when humanity finally figures out what its purpose is. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Hoping For Reincarnation…”I am refining my Favorites Sunday selection a little here. I have decided that I will go back 5 years to the week to see what I was talking about and if anything has changed. Update It was a tough road, but I think I am finally beginning to keep my life challenging, at least with respect to my current conditions. I have discovered that life can really be joyful regardless of what surrounds you if you work hard enough at it. Five years ago I would never have thought that the tone of the country would have turned so … Continue reading Favorites Sunday – Looking Back Five Years.
For this Saturday I thought I would go WAY back to my analog photo days of 1986. About eight winters ago I spent what seemed like an eternity scanning the dozens of photo albums to put them in digital format. This is one of them. I know it was taken in 1986 but don’t know where? Even if it is a low resolution picture, I think it is one of my favorites. Continue reading The Lily Pond
As usual for this time of year, I have been in a self-reflective mode here on RJsCorner. It seems that the primary focus this year is my Aspie traits. Why I think that is the case is the topic of this post.
Continue reading “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
I am going to make some basic changes here at RJsCorner for this new year and decade. One of those changes will be to make my Dear Will Letters more frequent and more prominent on my corner. That is what this post is all about
Continue reading “Dear Will: What’s It All About”
Thanks to Frank Diana over at Reimagining The Future I am putting on my dreamer’s hat for this post. I really think, or at least pray, that once that despicable person leaves the Oval Office, we will go on to make our future bright indeed. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Imagining The Next Decade”
I know it is dangerous to self-proclaim that I am undocumented but that is what I am doing with the post.
Continue reading “Proclamations Of An Undocumented …”For the next few Sundays I am going to be looking back at the 10+ years of RJsCorner to resurrect some of my favorite posts from the past. I mean those posts where I swell up when I read them again. The first of those favorites is what this post is all about.
Continue reading ““Favorites” Sunday”
