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April 20, 2013

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JON; I look forward to all your words.
keep pumping the ink.

We've got your back, Deadline Man. Quality over quantity.

Maybe you could pull the old Atrios technique, and sprinkle in occasional "Open Thread" posts. It might help keep the conversation going...

I really don't know how you've managed so far, really - your Deadline Man comment helps to explain it, I suppose.

"Maybe you could pull the old Atrios technique..."


Then, there's the old Atoz technique (creating replicas of himself as work assistants).

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Atoz

Jon, I devour your writing, it is terrific, I'll take it when I can get it - no worries and thank you for your commitment and dedication!

Consider the thread opened:

It is very surreal to drive through the extreme south east valley and see mile after mile of deserted subdivisions while across the street new housing subdivisions are in full scale new construction.

Some of the deserted subdivisions still have heavy equipment sitting as if they were left there in mid-job.

We're living in a very strange economy, my friends.
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I let my good friend Sen. Flake know that he works for me and not the NRA. Let's see how that works out.
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Even though I've learned the words, chimera, cohort and meme on this board, I still can't get myself to use them in a sentence. Where I grew up, if you used those words, you better be a fast runner.
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For those of you who are local and who have chosen to pass up on the opportunity to have coffee with Cal, you will kick yourselves in the future.
It's fine to lurk on the internet, but in the final analysis, you're human. Get out there and make contact with your species. Something about cal and eclectic dog and petro and soleri makes the coffee taste that much better.

Ruben: I'm with you on the $100 words, having been beaten up by my bosses who told me to "write so normal folks understand it". Many of them were big deal executives who didn't have the time or the temperament for flowing prose.

There's always a cohort of anti-intellectuals who tout this meme, but the truth is that the man of simple "common sense" is a chimera.

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