HeyJaredFive Minutes from a Meltdown
David Meyer shares his stories, comedy, thoughts, poems, and more. Don't worry, though...He only writes in the third person for this description. Or does he?
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Gatekeeping (opens the original)
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It’s been a while, and I have to tell you what’s been on my mind since you last heard from me. It may not be what you’re anticipating, but I really think it’s important. So bear with me.Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about gates.Not Bill or Melinda, not the iron ones that guard graveyards, and certainly not the peculiar ways in which each person walks. But “-Gates”. With a dash. Like Watergate. It was a bit of a scandal, you know, involving that old rapscallion, tricky Dick Nixon, and secret
A July 4th, 1776 Post (About September 6th, 1776) (opens the original)
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I sat down intending to write something about July 4th, perhaps a letter to a personified Uncle Sam that included clever insights and thoughtful reflections, and finished with a hopeful turn about 250 years of the United States of America. Then I sat down and Googled “other things that happened in 1776,” and that idea went straight out the window. When do you think submarines were invented? General ballpark.1I don’t know about you, but I thought it was invented somewhere in the late 1800s, only
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