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I try to let people do things sometimes and most times regret that I just didn't do whatever it was myself...

Religion in public schools? Absolutely not.

I am tired of the Christian Right in this country trying to ram their religion down everyone's throat, especially after reading this article in the NY Times. In a state like Oklahoma I expect there is no end to the number of churches available for Bible study. Use

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So there are now three official start dates for Autumn: 1. The Autumnal Equinox...the official official start. 2. Meteorological Autumn - 9/1. The scientists like to break things down into easy chunks for some reason. 3. Starbucks Fall Menu Day - this year its 8/22.

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Just read yet another article while having my coffee about making a "smartphone" a "dumb" one. It's still weird to me that people would buy a smartphone then make it dumb to spare their attention. Why not just buy a dumb phone if this
New post over on Notebook about Joan Westenberg's story yesterday about why I think she's wrong about the Democrats.

iA Writer and Ghost: setting the title on publish

I ran across something I wanted to share about using iA Writer's built-in Ghost publishing. I found out that while Writer's publishing to Ghost is pretty bare bones it does support setting the title of the post multiple ways: 1. The title can be set by

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Time Team

Several decades ago I was up late watching TV. Insomnia. I came across a British TV show on PBS (I think. So long ago.) called "Time Team". I had never seen anything like this show. It was boring yet so damned interesting at the same time. I think

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Welcome to Scatterbrained!

So I wrote this post several weeks ago when I moved this blog, originally called Notebook, over to Substack and to be honest none of what I wrote there has changed. But when I made the big switch I never looked at how much I had in the bank so-to-speak

Anytime someone mentions the “Overton window” in a blog post my eyes start to glaze over.

GOP mental gymnastics

With Summer Olympic Games in Paris just around the corner it seems appropriate that the GOP is attempting some gymnastics, even if they're only mental, in trying to describe the change from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee as "undemocratic".