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A couple of days ago, I found out that a very dear friend of mine had passed away and immediately sat down in the Nerdery and started penning an obituary of sorts. After re-reading the post that I wrote to commemorate his passing, whilst I wouldn't really change how it ultimately came out, there were some very personal beats that were definitely pegging the darker end of the "sunshine and light" scale. I've found through…

Sometimes these posts are so easy to write that the words practically fling themselves headlong from my fingertips into sentences and paragraphs and the next thing I know there's a finished article ready for me to hit the Publish button and share my thoughts du jour with the world. This is not one of those stories. This one is going to take a while and I'm not going to promise I'm not going to be…

After just penning a bit of a blistering screed on the subject of being presumed honest and innocent rather than the other way round, I knew the notes I planned on hitting in this annual Memorial Day post where we remember those who sacrificed greatly for the rest of us to have first-world problems like resenting the presumption of dishonesty. Every day for me is Memorial Day as I look up at that triangular wooden…

With the greatest possible respect, please tell me how a reasonably intelligent human being could possibly come to the conclusion that you're *NOT* a hypocrite when we look at these two statements (one where you were reading a clumsily prepared written excuse after the veto override vote that could have been ghost-written by Speaker Moore and the one you told the voters in the district you were hoping to represent): "Some call me a hypocrite…