King Of The Hill
/Focus on individual...
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...a rough game for rough boys. It reduces the historic struggle for wealth and power to simple clarity: Climb to the top of the hill: Knock down the reigning...
By K. L. Shipley
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Sail On Time
/...the constant move. It never stops because your heart is broken. A heart and a clock may be ticking together. But the clock never stops to turn back and see why the heart stopped ...
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreWhere's The Outrage?
/Thoughtful design could easily...
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... most everyone who has ever used a computer will remember the awkwardness of first contact. It’s not so much the complexity as it is the obscurity. The words on the ribbon display appear to be in English, but their ...
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreAfternoons At The Parma
/Inside it was a magic...
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...Saturday afternoon no matter what was showing. I didn’t have to walk any further than the end of my street. Saturday matinees included cartoon, newsreel, and two full-length feature films ...
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreBetween The Lines
/Separation by time...
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...often discovers in another’s writings other perfections
than those which the author has consciously imparted to them,
and lends to them a richer meaning...
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreAntiques Roadshow
/Antiques have all suffered...
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...like watching Antiques Roadshow. Unlike most TV shows, It’s calm. The pace is slow. The presentation is free of the usual TV drama. Experts examine all sorts of items brought in by local...
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreManipulation
/Corrupt the leaders...
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...is most effective when the manipulator is silent, invisible, and better yet, widely believed to be...
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMy People Perish...
/Shouldn't a fundamental…
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…something like that. I think the original in Isaiah 5:13 was, "are destroyed", rather than, "perish". The meaning is the same. I can't help thinking a lot of people these days don't have enough knowledge…
By K. L. Shipley
Never Been Poor
/The deepest sort of…
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…lack of money. Isn’t it as simple as that?
I don’t think so.
Poverty is more a state of mind…
By K. L. Shipley
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