Affected

I’m overly, and easily affected, by outside influences. read a novel set in Edwardian England and suddenly my thoughts are directed to imagining life through that prism. Or worse, to think in those words, the forgotten words of times past, still in the language but so out of time.
Except I have this self-knowledge, and my [...]

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Inadequate words

“We *heart* our customers” it always says on the dry cleaner hanger, even if a financial transaction has a grand social aspect, it’s not quite true and not quite right. Just so the phrases of thanks ring out to returning troops, a mix of a loss for words, and even those words, so well used, [...]

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90% of RDA

I almost double majored, or at least minored in Economics. I had the credits from my favorite, and best class in high school and I had the aptitude, but I became disenchanted. No, perhaps not disenchanted, but rather doubtful of the underlying support for the superstructure of the theory.
You see, virtually all economics theory rests [...]

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