E D Skinner
Fiction, facts, and philosophy
Ed with Chinese lion statue, Wuhan China, Oct-Nov 2003

Opinion

Goodbye Southern Arizona
Posts
6/26/10

About five years ago, the adult leader of the Boy Scouts of America troops in Phoenix said that the Arizona chapters had …

Memorial Day 2010
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5/31/10
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence …
Not Prepared
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5/11/10

There is a country, which I will allow to remain nameless, that receives a lot of “off-shoring” of software …

Did You Know
Posts
4/29/10

What follows is a “cut and paste” from elsewhere – original source probably “lost to the ages”, …

Prejudice, I Didn’t See This Coming
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4/28/10

As a member of the 70% of Arizonans who support the anti-immigration law recently passed in Arizona, it’s also true …

Poor Sod!
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4/17/10

What follows is an email to an associate about to travel to Cedar Rapids Iowa from which I just returned. He’s a …

SCOTUS Gears
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9/15/09

The following links, requiring a total of a little under 30 minutes of your time, describe the mechanics of the highest …

9/11 and Other Contributions to Maturity
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9/14/09

No doubt you remember where you were and what you were doing when you first heard of the 9/11/2001 attacks.

I was teaching …

Burning Man
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8/19/09

A friend announced he was going to the Burning Man festival outside of Gerlach, Nevada. I knew he had been several times and, …

Staphylococcus Interruptus Redux
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8/5/09

I’m mending well according to all the MDs seen today, 10 days after my ER visit. The orthopedic surgeon removed the …