The Quarklas Protocol

posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
The Quarklas Protocol is a set of conventions intended to provide a framework for addressing network-based group conversation threads that devolve to be in violation of the social conventions for that conversation. Examples of possible venues for ...

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Identity Theft and Me

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
Getting your identity stolen is a little like contracting a sexually transmitted disease. It happens to other people. You know, careless, irresponsible people. Not me.

But it happened to me.

It all began, as Rod Serling would have said, innoce...

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I say "It's mine!"

posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 1 comment
It's not often you can identify turning points in your life, but one occurred for me in the 1980 presidential election.

I was attracted to the presidential campaign of John Anderson who was running as an independent against Ronald Reagan (a man w...

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The L-Word

posted over 4 years ago | 6 comments
I was raised as a liberal.

These days, that's an admission that's about as popular as saying that you're a child molester, isn't it? Being liberal, or or having been liberal, is one of those things that others accuse you of, and you defend yourse...

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If I Ruled Television

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
- "reality shows" would be banned

- ...especially dating shows

- no TV show could ever be advertised by calling it an "event"

- female cops on TV would not look like they just stepped off the cover of Cosmopolitan

- each network would be limit...

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