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About jharrin4

mass communication/speech instructor at College of DuPage and Triton College in suburban Chicago. Army veteran of the Viet Nam era.

Our Relative Reception of Reality

Posted on February 7, 2025 by jharrin4

Okay, sure, I know. I know. Who the hell doesn’t know? You’d have to not be paying any attention to the externals of your share of space and time on the land beneath your feet to not know. Well, maybe … Continue reading →

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Weeze Dems Peepils Dones be Spoke, Groundhog Day edition

Posted on February 2, 2025 by jharrin4

Geeze, Maw, ourins guy be being back mighty fines affer dem longs fours years of havins to be sees that ol’ man creakins bout, hardlies be being fit to sayin untrutes bouts didsand dats, and zombie walks all overs. Hards … Continue reading →

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The Sphere of Incomprehension

Posted on January 17, 2025 by jharrin4

Greetings, Moutain Sphereians. Zardoz has decided to rescind previous order that Mountain Sphere–more recently also referred to as Monument Sphere–is, to use the Sphere lingo, no longer a lost cause. In the previous encounters with your Sphere, the original A.I. … Continue reading →

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Moral Relativity

Posted on January 1, 2025 by jharrin4

Hello, 2025. Goodbye 2024. For some it is “good riddance” 2024. That attitude is not at all surprising. Many families and individuals struggled financially in 2024. Recession. Inflation. Less than a living wage amid the increasing wealth gap. Lots of … Continue reading →

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The Gifting Season!

Posted on December 26, 2024 by jharrin4

Christmas day, 2024. All quiet (well mostly) on the brick-and-mortar retail front. The idea of gift-giving (and getting), gathering with family or friends, is driven home now as much as ever. “Ever” starting sometime in the mid-19th century, with the … Continue reading →

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The Light vs The Dark

Posted on December 12, 2024 by jharrin4

Only eight days away. From what, the willing surrender of our government to a felonious flim-flam man? No, that’s 38 days away. And I, for one, consider what happens in thirty-eight days to be a very dark day for we … Continue reading →

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70,560, begging your pardon edition

Posted on December 2, 2024 by jharrin4

Allow me to invoke the title of one of Charles Bukowski’s books of poetry: The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Buk was a gritty, chain smoking wino who had his own special take on life and … Continue reading →

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What’s in Your Wallet?

Posted on November 16, 2024 by jharrin4

What possible explanation is there for this? You know what “this” refers to, right? Too many areas to parse over, dissect, spin and sift through, panning for a nugget of truth. Truth. Based on fact. Fact. Evidence. Proof. Cannot be … Continue reading →

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While Trying Not to Think About You Know What

Posted on October 28, 2024 by jharrin4

Earth is a about 4.5 billion years old. That sure makes me feel better about how old I am in comparison. And earth is rotating around an otherwise insignificant star, in a solar system with billions of dues paying objects … Continue reading →

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Two Weeks, Five Days

Posted on October 17, 2024 by jharrin4

Including today, October 17, there are 19 days remaining before the Apocalypse! The eruption of Mt. Electoral! Sturm and drang with a chaser of weltschmerz. A catastrophic cocktail of confounding chaos and calamity. The sun might explode. The end of … Continue reading →

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