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October 15th, 2022 by Corey A. Edwards
If we now choose to only accept the constructive and creative contributions made by those without personal flaw or history of social misstep, we will find ourselves in a very narrow alley, indeed.
Albert Einstein, after all, was a serial philanderer, damaging the lives of many of the women in his life and his own children with his selfish actions. Shall we ignore his contributions to our world as punishment?
Wrongs should be prevented and, when they occur, righted. Those caught doing wrong need to be called out, given the chance to apologize, make the appropriate penance, and move on. Figures from the past gain value with further scrutiny into the vagaries of their lives but there is no way to punish them, and we only hurt ourselves when we cast away what good they left behind in an attempt.
What fault is it of the work that its creator is flawed and how do we benefit by this eschewing of the positive light that these fully human people emit?
A good portion of that bath waste water is baby, folks.
Tags: Albert Einstein
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March 22nd, 2019 by Corey A. Edwards
My spin’s better than your spin,
My lie’s better than yours!
I’m immune to facts and reason
but I think I’m smart, of course
Social media’s my platform
See me share some memes
Don’t care if they’re total bullshit
IN ALLCAPS I SCREAM
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November 8th, 2015 by Corey A. Edwards
No, really. I lost 50 pounds drinking beer every day. I went from being a 210 pound, mouth-breathing schlubb to the 160 pound, svelte lady-killer that you see before you now – and all without giving up beer, bacon, butter, or even breaking much of a sweat.
I drank beer every day and treated my Friday and Saturday evenings like a diet-free zone.
The trick to my success is … no trick. It’s not a fad, it’s not hard, and it’s absolutely free – no salesman will come to your door.
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Tags: beer diet, Calories In/Calories Out, Dave's Killer Bread, Deschutes Black Butte Porter, Drink Beer and Lose Weight, MyFitnessPal, No-Li Wrecking Ball Imperial Stout, VanderGhinste Oud Bruin sour ale
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September 23rd, 2015 by Corey A. Edwards
Government is important – the governing body helps direct and protect the mass of humanity that forms it, supports it, and huddles beneath it in helpless and innocent expectation.
At least, that’s the purported goal of most modern, Western governments; what the best governing bodies aspire to.
Unfortunately, as with all human endeavors, the end result of government is often not exactly what the framers, voters, or contributors wanted, needed, or expected it to be. Thus and with my humble nature, I have decided to help explain how our current system works, what the end results tend to be, and all in a friendly, physically-metaphorical way that will have you more fully understanding the system and its attendant benefits
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November 7th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
About a month ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook about someone who had killed themselves in response to their “soul” mate dying. Lot’s of people chimed in about how sad and beautiful it all was.
But I had to be a dick about it. You see, I can’t romanticize it – I hate suicide.
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Tags: romance, self loathing, self pity, suicide
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July 8th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
Lime.
I’ve liked lime since I was a kid. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the perverse attraction I’ve always had for those things not mainstream in my culture: lime, the color purple, rain, Japan. The other reason – the biggest one – is the fact that I just plain love the flavor.
I didn’t get to taste it much, then. I mean, where did you find lime in 1970’s Colorado outside of gin and tonics? Unlike apple, grape, banana, cherry, and orange, flavors that seemed to be in everything, lime was a rare pleasure. It was so rare a flavor, in fact, that I have this horrible, itchy feeling that I first tasted it in Starburst candies.
Yeah, that’s right: Starburst originally came in strawberry, lemon, orange, and LIME.
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Tags: 1970's, Abba Zabba, Candy, Captain Beefheart, Hot Tamales, LA, Lime, Lime Skittles, Lime Starburst, Mint Skittles, See's Candies, Skittles, Starburst, Tiger's Milk Bar, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, Wrigley, Wrigley's
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December 27th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
I am a breakfast kinda guy. I know a lot of you just get up and go, relying on a snack and some coffee or soda pop as a hold-over until lunch but I could never do that. I need some real fuel in the morning to keep me going and that means “Food” with a capital ‘f’, not crap. It’s how I was raised.
I grew up eating cold cereal for most breakfasts. Grape Nuts, Raisin Bran, Cheerios, Wheat Chex, Corn Bran, Rice Crispies, Life. We weren’t allowed to have the sugary (er) cereals even though we were allowed to dump sugar on those provided. Even under the watchful eye of my father, I was able to get a good amount of sugar on there, sometimes even enough to end up with that lightly grainy, sweet slime that collects at the bottom of an over-sugared bowl of milk.
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Tags: Advertising, Breakfast Cereal, Diet, Food
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November 4th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
I know that my opinion is of little value or interest in the overall scheme of things; I’ll not be changing your mind any more than a recitation of facts would. Further, I don’t believe our present government, no matter whom is at the helm or what their political affiliation, has the *ability* to have our best interests at heart or would be very effective even if they could … but I’ll rush into the breach, anyhow.
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Tags: America, Atheism, Bigotry, Conservative, Democrat, Election, Freedom, Homosexuality, Liberal, Politics, Religion, Republican, Vote
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March 27th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
They would. They’d just walk up and give you a smack.
You start a choking-cough at the table nowadays and people just sit back politely and wait: “Are you okay?” Maybe they reach over and lightly pat your spine. “Don’t try and talk. Have sip of water”
Not in the 70’s, man. In the 70’s, they’d whap you.
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Tags: CorporalPunishment, Parenting, Slapping, Spanking
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March 13th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
If you’re like most people, you hated history class. The names, the dates, the strange places, the seeming irrelevance of it all …
Now me, I was one of those kids who actually enjoyed history class. I was fascinated by ancient cultures, human behavior, what has gone before. I’d often sit in class reading ahead in the book or, on my own time, reading in greater depth about that which was being taught. I still enjoy history, considering it as good if not more entertaining than fiction … not that I manage to retain much more than a general sense of what I consume but the minutiae of the past continue to fascinate me.
So, knowing that about me, allow me the heresy of stating that history, as typically taught, is a great waste of time.
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Tags: Education, History
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July 1st, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
I frequently hear people admonishing others or even themselves for voicing a negative possibility.
Now I do understand and believe in the power of positive thought. Optimism is an important component of health and social advancement: perky people prosper.
Of course, this is a generalization – plenty of grumpy jerks make it to the top and live long lives while some incredibly cheerful people contract terminal illnesses and or remain in a state of penury their entire lives. The point is that the former never appreciate what they have while the latter never mind the deficit.
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Tags: Religion, Spirituality, Superstition
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June 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
So I’m at the bank depositing a check when, at the end of the transaction, the teller asks, in the depths of her professional rut: “Is there anything else I can get for you?”
Now people learn, after just a few transactions with me, not to ask such questions but this woman has never served me before and, thus, has no idea just what kind of ass is on the other side of the glass.
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Tags: Candy, Dum Dums, Flavoring, Lollipop
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October 20th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
So it’s now been about two years since I could count on having enough money in my checking account at all times.
I’ve grown rather used to this, and am not complaining about it. Even in easier days I did my best to avoid over-extending myself and only bring my situation up now as a precursor to talking about the recent change in banking rules, i.e.; the death of the overdraft fee.
Picture the banker’s grin melting from his weaselly little face.
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Tags: Banking, Banks, Bounced Checks, Finances, Over-draft Protection
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May 31st, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
After an amazing, extended week revisiting the region I spent the first 30 or so years of my life in, I feel like the Tin Man upon receiving his heart; old truths, long forgotten, mix with new revelations to buoy me up.
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Tags: Discipline, Impermanence, Loveland
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July 31st, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
People all over the world have it hotter, longer, and more regularly than those of us in the Pacific Northwest (get your mind out of the gutter) but I don’t care, I’m going to bitch about it, anyway.
Heat.
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Tags: Heat, summer, Temperatures, Weather
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July 18th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
She says it warmly and with a hint of naughtiness, as if over the breakfast table after a night of lovemaking:
“I’ll be right back, sweetheart.”
The only problem is she’s not my lover, she’s my bank teller.
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Tags: Banking, Casual
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May 25th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
I open the box of toothpicks and shake a small portion out into my palm.
They are of a shape: pale, virgin white birch cylinders, their tapered ends coming to a point.
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Tags: Corn
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March 17th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
I’m lucky and I know it.
I was born in the late 60’s, in the US, to lower-middle class parents, and was raised in a neighborhood with a big waterfall. I had a great mom, we never went hungry, and I had access to education, medicine, and culture. In the areas where I lived, if you wanted a job, all you had to do was go out and get one – or that’s how it was for me from the late 80’s to the mid 00’s.
Recently, however, things have not been so good for me and, though I’m not a whiner, when people ask me how specific things are going, I don’t feel like sugar coating it for them.
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Tags: Complaining
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December 7th, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards
According to various news sources, a sign has been put up near a nativity scene in Seattle by the Freedom From Religion folks reading:
“At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”
Now I may wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments of this sign (and I do) but I find it to be tantamount to, and thus as offensive as, any of the unasked for religious proselytizing the group claims to be protesting.
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Tags: Atheism, Christmas, Religion, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Spirituality
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