Inside Doug's Head

It is never too late to become wise.

The first thing they do is turn everyone against you. And then they come for you late at night, when no one is watching or suspecting. They mostly come at night. It’s for your own good, they say. Come with us quietly; no need to wake the neighbors. Spell check says nothing is happening. Autocorrect …

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TLDR: you should learn to read, you stupid, ignorant goof. It’s a great story. What have you got against written words? Read, and form your own opinion. Just because you dropped out of ninth grade doesn’t automatically make you a senator. Read, you dumb, illiterate idiot. CNN isn’t going to explain it to you. Also, …

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Picture this: you are walking along on a sidewalk, path, or trail, and some random person is approaching you from the opposite direction. I call them randos, randoes. Whatever; a person selected from the group of other people, many of whom you don’t know or like. In set notation, {person: people who are not you}.

An encounter with orcs. Last night, as I was walking home from a modest outing in downtown Sunnyvale, the home of Buffy’s hellmouth, I witnessed a homeless person, formerly known as filthy vagrants, hanging around the west side entrance (a dead end world), waiting for someone to open the gate and let them in so …

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