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Great piece about the devolution of journalism and its effects by Matt Taibbi. ‘“You can’t sell hatred and seriously expect it to end”.

taibbi.substack.com/p/we-need…

I am opting out of a good chunk of the MSM (main stream marketing) and looking for independent voices that are open minded and thought-provoking, not emotional crack.

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Renegaing with micro.blog after a 3 year hiatus. Twitter refugee. Trying our several services, but not going back to twitter. I need more peace and less conflcit in my life. I have used many blogging services over the year, but the best ones are the ones you se, not plan to use. And those tend to be as easy as possible to use.
So here we go again. I have committed to a year this time. If I am still posting in a year, this will be a would sucess!

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Things you won’t hear in the US Media … “extraordinary” increase in American oil production could supply all world oil demand. From @TheEconomist

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Anyone subscribe(d) to Setapp? If so, worth it? Happy?

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We are under a winter weather advisory tonight - might even see some snow. Been living in Florida for over 20 years. Saw a snow flurry … once

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Here is the obligatory first post on micro.blog. I am looking forward to trying out a new platform. Looks interesting. Getting tired of Twitter. I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. Willing to give micro.blog a shot

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I have had this blog since 2012 and maintained it (loosely defined) since then.  I started out on Blogger, then moved to Wordpress. Got tired of that and wanted to learn a new CMS, so I switched to Joomla. I like Joomla, but found myself posting less and less.  So I am switching again to the lowest friction blog system I can find, Posthaven. 

The plan is to post more and make it as easy as possible. One of the pains in the you know what will be transferring my previous posts to this new blog.  But I think it will be worth it.  

So stay tuned. Check back often.  Sit back and enjoy. There will be no rhyme, reason or theme to this.  I will just be posting what I think is interesting or my thoughts.

2016 has been a very difficult year for me and my family.  But we are still here, holding on, and together.  That is all that that you can ask for in this tough world.

Here I am after a 15 mile training run - super slow - but happy, still running, and still holding on