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Ten years after

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 5, 2011

One would think that after ten years blogging and flogging I would have improved. One would think. Sadly, the last three years barely count. I’ve cranked out the obligatory post or four most every month but I’ve wasted an awful lot of online time in the so-called social web, twitter and Facebook and so forth. [...]

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Damn Sure Right

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 10, 2011

Intention is the core of all conscious life. It is our intentions that create karma, our intentions that help others, our intentions that lead us away from the delusions of individuality toward the immutable verities of enlightened awareness. Conscious intention colors and moves everything. – Hsing Yun From 2002 until her death in the spring [...]

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Riding on the crazy train to nowhere

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 4, 2010

Ronni Bennett posted what follows in the voice of her duly appointed ranter, the Crabby Old Lady. I decided to steal it, edit it a little, and re-post it here. Everyone with a blog ought to steal it. She can’t sue all of us! Ronni’s post is titled “Stupid, Venal, Crackpot Politics.” Here goes… Crabby [...]

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RSS feed

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 10, 2010

There comes a time every year or two when I screw up my feed settings terribly. In fairness to myself I must add that sometimes it’s Feedburner’s fault. Sometimes their instructions are opaque, and in one instance while they were being digested by the Google borg they actually hosed up my feed themselves. Really. So [...]

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Invitation to visit a new blog of mine

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 4, 2010

“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.” — Noam Chomsky Thus begins a new blog with the preposterous and passé name Class War. The author? Yours truly, of course. Who else would hurl a dead skunk into the marketing meeting then [...]

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Cathy Erway

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 27, 2010

Cathy Erway, the author of The Art of Eating In is in Madison this week preparing meals with friends and spreading the word that we can benefit from getting in touch with where our food comes from and how it’s prepared. Cathy’s blog Not Eating Out in New York sports the tag line “Consuming Less, [...]

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Twas Bileg

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 28, 2010

‘Twas brillig and the slithy tothes, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. –Lewis Carroll Goo goo g’ joob… –John Lennon (Has anyone else noticed that “Slithey tothe” is sort of a slant rhyme with “slimy toad?” Of course, toads aren’t slimy but verisimilitude be [...]

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