Missives from a Middle-aged Man
Musings, Rants & Essays on... Whatever I feel like writing about.
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Catching Up & Talking Lawsuit! with Melissa Corrigan, she/her (opens the original)
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Functioning in a Fall (opens the original)
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“Shit’s about to get real,” a friend of mine said this morning. We’ve been saying that for a while now. We’ve long ceased to pride ourselves on any sort of prognostication.We’re either too early for it to be any use, or we’re just wrong. Sometimes in a little way, and other times all the way wrong.But the math is mathin’ like a motherfucker right now. The “fall” is coming. It’s just a matter of what form it takes. That’s the part that you get right by luck if you get it right at all. What it loo
Blame Canada! 🇨🇦 (opens the original)
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Talk Soup 🍲: Macklemore, Midterms and other Misc Stuff (opens the original)
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Morning Coffee ☕️ 9/17/26 “What Is Essential & Demand Destruction (opens the original)
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