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Category Archives: Observations
The Manager’s Wife
Some things, even minor things, still stick in the memory like a dagger. Once upon a time I found myself working a part-time minimum wage job as a groundskeeper and general handyman at a government subsidized low-income housing complex. It … Continue reading
Posted in Expository Writing, Government, Observations, Personal History, Plain English
Tagged Accents, Bigotry, Character, Delusion, Economics, English as a Second Language, Government, Government Subsidy, Judgement, Low-Income Housing, Memory, Money, Poverty, Property Management, Southern Accents, Sympathy, Work
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Imagery and Implication
As a student of damned near everything including psychology, child development, mass communications and so forth, a single phrase in a newspaper article jumped right out at me. The article is about a coming solar eclipse and includes the following … Continue reading
Posted in Expository Writing, Human Sacrifice, Mass Media, Observations, Plain English, Religion
Tagged Ancient Gods, Astronomy, Child Development, Child Psychology, Children, Criminal Child Neglect, Culture, Figures of Speech, God, Hollywood, Idolatry, Mass Communications, Megan Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Moon, Pop Culture, Psychology, Ra, Relationships, Religion, Simile, Solar Eclipse, Sun, Television
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A Foot In The Door
Putting “a foot in the door” harks back to the days of cold call door-to-door salesmen. Salesmen would knock on residential doors or, if you were wealthy enough to have one, ring the door bell. The housewife would open the … Continue reading
Posted in Cable Television, Capitalism, Economics, Expository Writing, Mass Media, Observations, Plain English
Tagged A Foot In The Door, Advertising, Brainwashing, Business, Castle, Culture, English, English Composition, Fools, Friends, Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!, Home, King Odysseus, Lassie, Life Alert, Manly Duty, Mass Media, Odysseus, Penelope, Personification, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Relationships, Sales, Status Symbols, Telemachus, Television, Truth, Women
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Nothing is Foolproof – Nothing
CAUTION: THIS IS NOT A FLOTATION DEVICE. DO NOT LEAVE CHILD UNATTENDED WHILE IN USE. USE ONLY UNDER COMPETENT SUPERVISION. Even something so simple as a classic vinyl beach ball isn’t foolproof. We sometimes loose sight of the meaning of … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Observations, Uncategorized
Tagged Adages, Beach, Beach Balls, Children, Dialect, Foolproof, Fools, Humanity, Humor, Labels, Lawyers, Life, Safety, Safety Labels, Summer, Supervision, Swimming, Toys, Wisdom
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