Author Archives: winterSmith

The fake job dog & pony show just nailed me again

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It’s time American business and government leaders addressed this unethical hiring practice. Friday afternoon I submitted an application with a company we’ll call “BoughtOne” This morning – barely more than one business day later – I receive this: Hi Samuel, Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider you for employment. After reviewing your resume, we’ve decided to move

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Do you have regrets?

regrets

Sometimes that which does not kill us doesn’t make us stronger. Sometimes it breaks us. And bad mistakes I’ve made a few There’s this thing we’ve all learned to say: I have no regrets. And we mean it. I know an incredible number of smart, wonderful people for whom this is a mantra, and they’re sincere. They look at the

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S&R’s Scariest Halloween Videos 2017

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A collection of terrifying music and videos for the spookiest night of the year… Happy Samhain. Errr, Halloween. Let’s get the frightfest under way with the definitive Halloween band, shall we? White Zombie: “I’m Your Boogieman” Boy, you really had to see these guys live. Seraphim Shock: “After Dark” One of my favorite Goth bands of all time. Switchblade Symphony:

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The lesson of Bush’s Trump speech: someday Sideshow Don will seem statesmanlike, too

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Is there any such thing as “conservative enough”? By now most of you are aware of former president George W. Bush’s speech earlier today, in which he offered up a pointed critique of Donald Trump (or someone exactly like him). Bush was certainly right about the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and we all ought to be distressed by the

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Mark Steyn’s Stephen Paddock theory: it was the liberals

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Famous radio mouthpiece knows why the Las Vegas gunman did it. While surfing my morning news feed I tripped across a new theory about the motivation driving Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock. Since investigators have not yet uncovered any agenda on Paddock’s part – nothing political, not religious, didn’t hate Country music, etc. – people are going to speculate.

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Overthinking: rock music, pop culture, Donald Trump and America’s desperate race to the bottom

Music

Donald Trump isn’t an anomaly. He isn’t an outlier. He isn’t a blip on the radar of history. He’s the very embodiment of the black, ignorant American soul. [Apologies in advance. These issues may seem unrelated to some of you, but the dots connect perfectly in my head. I’ll let you know when the big leap is about to happen.]

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