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Memories of the 28th Century

Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters

  1. A World of Square Pegs

    by , 01-22-2014 at 11:55 AM (Memories of the 28th Century)
    Have you ever noticed how many people end up in fields that don’t fit them? It might just be in my limited observations, but it seems like most people are square pegs in round holes, or vice versa. I will admit that there are exceptions, like the woman I know who has been utterly mad about horses for her whole life and is a DVM now, but most people that I know seemed to have missed their true calling, and I include myself.

    I will confess that my experience in this matter is fragmentary ...

    Updated 01-22-2018 at 03:25 PM by PeterL

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  2. Civil Disobedience against Prohibition

    by , 10-07-2013 at 03:42 PM (Memories of the 28th Century)
    I am not advocating the use of any illegal substance, but I do not believe that there should be any illegal substances, certainly not in a supposedly free society. There are fairly good rationales for the existences of some laws that are supposedly intended to save people from themselves, but I question whether it is the business of government to save people from themselves. I realize that there are individuals who are incapable of caring for them, and some laws are intended to protect such people ...