It would have been fascinating to see how we’d have been as parents. I think I’ve written her before why we’re not having kids. Yes, there’s the flippant answer that we know which South<\/a> Part<\/a> characters we’d produce, but I can’t do the things <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s a lot of things I think it’s important for a dad to be able to do that I physically can’t; it probably wouldn’t be fair to him, or me. (Yes, I said, “him;” in something like four generations, there’s about three girls out of probably 25 kids…..)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started writing this while watching overage of the LA fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was listening to this<\/a>, and getting angrier by the minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do I feel bad that you and those you love lost things that are dear to you? Of course. But for the past decade-plus, I’ve heard your explain why people like me may not enter the ranks of your affluence. I’m privileged simply because of my sorta-observable race, and gender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The subject line in the draft was “GFY<\/a>,” which really summed out my feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That fed into Biden’s farewell address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was having trouble finding words to describe everything that was wrong with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted Oberg, with whom I worked when he was at WAVy\/FOX43 in Tidewater gave a glowing review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was so adoring that I had to call him out on Same sort of “GFY” reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I understand that Ted was playing to his, and WRC’s audience in DC, but I really think Biden, when talking about a tech oligopoly, was expressing that threatens what he has spent his entire adult life fostering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You attend a private boarding school. You marry someone of a similar standing. You attend a high-priced private university (think Georgetown, GWU). You produce two kids better than yourself. You buy a property that’ll never decline in value, mortgage it forever, and instead of paying off the loan, you invest in whatever Rep. Pelosi is buying<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tech bros didn’t do that. Zuck is a f’n dropout<\/em><\/strong>. Must stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Again, GFY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monday should be interesting. We’ll see how things go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel like I’ve been busy this week, but probably a good part of that has been spent with the little dog while my wife was away. Stuff like that is pretty much exactly what I envisioned when I decided I wanted her\/we should have her. I accidentally stepped on her foot Thursday night….and she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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