Culture
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At some point, comfort stops feeling like convenience and starts feeling like surrender. That’s when the old Gen-X instinct kicks in — the one that remembers what it was like to make choices without algorithms, nudges, or curated menus.
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Before I start this up: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!!! 250 YEARS THROUGH STRUGGLE AND STRIFE AND LOOK AT US NOW!!!!!!!! 🦅🇺🇸🗽 GOD BLESS AMERICA! WOOOOOOO!!! (Okay now I’m ready for the July 2026 installment) Theories are like girlfriends (or boyfriends). Some you meet by accident, hang out with for a while, and then quietly drift apart.…
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“Money don’t get everything, it’s true. What it don’t get, I can’t use” We’ve entered an era where the United States wages war not with missiles, but with money-and it may be the most decisive battlefield yet. In the month of April 2026 the United States announced a “ceasefire” and the end of Operation Epic…
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The years progress, but do we? AI has had a promise and is now starting to deliver.
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I ran all night and dayI couldn’t get away The strikes on Iran by the U.S. and Israel began about a month ago. The dynamics of war are always framed as strategy, but the truth is simple: your plans are only as good as the assumptions underneath them. This week, the Trump administration said they’ve…
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Will things ever be the same again? Greenland is ice and Iceland is green. Go figure. Quite a month of February 2026 we’ve had. [BREAKING US AND ISREAL STRIKE IRAN]. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-israel-launch-major-attack-120954834.html So let’s look back at the United States ambitions on the takeover of Greenland. Why would the United States risk threatening a NATO ally?…
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“So I chose freedom. Running around, trying everything new.” https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/argentina/articles/the-untold-story-behind-the-song-dont-cry-for-me-argentina So here we are again US focused on our own Western Hemisphere after decades of global intervention, particularly in the Middle East. With so much going on (Tariffs, Greenland, Iran, Los Angeles, Minneapolis) let’s look back just a few short weeks into the United States…
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“What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong” – US President George H.W. Bush The Persian Gulf conflict began with the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein ordering the invasion of its oil rich neighbor, Kuwait. Other Arab nations were fearful that they could also fall to future invasion and called on the…
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“Second verse, same as the first” “Kings” I was curious about how many monarchs existed now that we are almost 250 years past the American Revolution and we told King George III we had enough of tyranny. Wikipedia maintains a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchs_of_sovereign_states I could count 30 from this list plus Pope Leo XIV,…
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“Shouldn’t be asking, wild and scheming.Could be my Election Day.” How did we get here? In the last 80 years we had been more concerned with winning the Cold War by forming trade alliances and the US Navy protecting the world’s oceans for international trade. Only thing is the Cold War ended in 1991 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War)…
GenX Turns Fifty 