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Thoughts In the Stream

A Confluence of Stoicism, Zen, and a Spartan Ethos.

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      • Columbus Day Is Obsolete
      • Do We Think At All?
      • New Logic in the Trump Era
      • Sitting Ducks
      • Global Warming and Capitalism
      • History Repeats
      • Republican Angst
      • Republican Fantasies
      • Do you believe?
      • Failing one another
      • Faust Knew Better
      • Lobotomy
      • Faust Knew Better
      • Not Tragic
      • Naive or Stupid
      • COVID and GDP
      • Trump and the Courts
      • 356,000 Dead. 12/16/2020.
    • Personal
      • Southward Equinox
      • Sitting
      • Dukkha and God
      • The Enchiridion
      • Happy New Day
      • Coalescing Thoughts
      • Centurion
      • Our Backyard is a Carryout for Hawks
      • The Captain
    • Covid
      • Delta
      • COVID Thoughts
      • A Year of COVID
      • Do you believe?
    • Lunch Out
  • Body
    • Mind on Body
      • Intensity
      • Evolutionariy Normal
      • Outdoors
      • sometimes it’s just about running
      • Toughness
      • Black Ice
    • Health
      • Sarcopenia
      • It’s 72 Hours, Stupid
      • Taxonomy of Processed Food
        • WHO Director-General Margaret Chan Quote
      • Getting Older….Weight Gain
      • Slowing Metabolism: an Excuse
      • Extreme Weight Loss and Exercise
      • Magic Number
    • Workout Logs
      • Exercise Log
      • Lifting Log
    • Running
    • Strength Training
    • New Strength Training Tweak
    • I don’t like running without Denise
    • Any Run is Better Than No run
  • Chez Denise
    • Today, We Splurged
    • October 30, 2021 A Day in the Life
  • Technology
    • Covid, Python, Data Science and Gun Deaths
    • Interesting Python Idioms
    • Tfid Vectorizer Tests
    • Facebook vs. Blogspot vs. WordPress (Fairy) vs. Joomla
  • Photos
    • Colorado 2017
    • On the Road to Kantishna
    • Various Photos
  • Delusion

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Failing one another

August 7, 2021August 17, 2021

The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have to say that I disagree. The responsibility for

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Human Experience Politics

History Repeats

August 15, 2021August 17, 2021

There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering over Kabul evacuating diplomats. It looks distressingly like

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Body Human Experience

A Year of COVID

March 11, 2021April 24, 2021

It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.

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Mind

Lunch Out

April 3, 2021April 24, 2021

Denise and I have eaten out for lunch most weekends since the mid-1990s. I remember well the moment in mid-March 2020 while sitting at lunch,

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Mind Philosophy

Sitting

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021

I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen or zen, sitting meditation in Japanese. But there

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New Logic in the Trump Era

January 23, 2021January 25, 2021

I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit, they seem to be gaining more general use. In

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Human Experience

Not Tragic

January 7, 2021January 16, 2021

After the rape of Capitol Hill by a Trumpian mob, I wonder if this is the act of hubris that I have long instinctively expected.

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Faust Knew Better

January 7, 2021January 9, 2021

I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed by the stupidity of squandering the 2000 budget surplus

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Mind

Naive or Stupid

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?

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COVID and GDP

December 29, 2020January 9, 2021

Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic help account for Taiwan’s relative success this year.

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Quote for Later

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

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Mind

Coalescing Thoughts

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

Local control of schools is a failure. People have lost, if they ever had, any ability to think analytically. Being able to posit an alternative

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Happy New Day

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

Was reading somewhere about an author’s disappointment that something didn’t happen at the very end of 2020 to bring more closure. The sentiment is entirely silly.

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Mind Nature Running

Outdoors

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

Denise broke her toe two weeks ago. It knocked the steam out of my running. I’m very used to having her around for the first

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Body Mind Nature

Do you believe?

December 19, 2020January 1, 2021

I don’t believe in the supernatural. I do believe in the power of symbols.

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Body Mind Running

Toughness

December 20, 2020January 1, 2021

I mentioned the mental (some would say spiritual) and nourishing benefits of running outdoors in a previous post. I neglected one very important benefit from

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Mind Nature

On the Road to Kantishna

December 23, 2020January 1, 2021

We drove through Denali National Park.

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Mind

Lobotomy

December 27, 2020January 1, 2021

How did People magazine displace Marat/Sade?

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Nature

Our Backyard is a Carryout for Hawks

December 13, 2020January 1, 2021

Someone stopped by for breakfast.

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Mind

Trump and the Courts

November 17, 2020January 1, 2021

Trump’s voter fraud lawsuits have all failed. This underscores one fundamental fact about Trump. While his misinformation and lies can sway the gullible and the

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Body Mind Running

sometimes it’s just about running

December 19, 2020December 20, 2020

Git her done.

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356,000 Dead. 12/16/2020.

December 16, 2020December 19, 2020

The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death rate has been higher than they would be in

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Technology

Gateway to In the Stream

December 13, 2020December 16, 2020
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The Captain

November 14, 2020November 19, 2020

I feel for those who struggle, whose numbers have grown so much in 2020.

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