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January 30, 2026
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Re: Fake email replies

Bryan Watson7 years ago02 mins

It plays on your sense of guilt that you missed an email, that you rudely ignored an email, that the sender is really interested in helping you – when, in fact, this email is just a pretense.

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U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) during his election night rally in Chicago, November 4, 2008.
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The Primacy of the People

Bryan Watson6 years ago02 mins

We trust in the institution of government, a government that is, in the end, made up of all of us, all of the people, a government that creates the law by which we agree to be governed.

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Does a Liar Tell the Truth?

Bryan Watson3 years ago02 mins

He’s a liar – a known liar, a fraud, a grifter, a thief. What is the point of asking him a question?

If he’s talking, he’s lying.

He’s a liar.

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Common But Not Normal

Bryan Watson8 years ago01 mins

In the wake of the most recent mass shooting – this time, in a Florida school – many commentators are noting, sadly, that tragedies like this have become the “new normal.” I disagree – tragedies like this have become “all too common“, but I reject the notion that this is “normal“, whether new or old….

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Mars Insight, Earth Insight

Bryan Watson7 years ago02 mins

Almost 50 years ago, I was transfixed as a NASA astronaut climbed down a ladder and pressed his boot into the grainy surface of the moon. A week ago, I sat transfixed as NASA guided a vehicle to a soft landing in Elysium Planitia, a “flat, boring equatorial plain” on a planet 300 million miles…

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Is This Heaven?

Bryan Watson6 years ago5 years ago02 mins

But for the 24-hour political newscasters, the Iowa caucus results were a panic moment. And now, 36 hours later, they are still mumbling and grumbling, talking about apps and coding problems and the horror of having to wait.

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Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

Bryan Watson2 years ago01 mins

Saturday night would have been the time to shift to a wholly-positive campaign. To inspire voters. To call them to “Yes, we can”, “We Dare to Dream”, and “We have before, we will again”.

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2020’s Woke Population

Bryan Watson6 years ago5 years ago02 mins

“I am not sure how we parse out how much of [the result] might have been related to reaction to Clinton and how much of it is motivated by the panic so many Democratic voters seem to be expressing in their desperate search to decide which candidate will beat President Trump,” University of Wisconsin political…

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Lady Liberty

Bryan Watson7 years ago5 years ago03 mins

A wall is a nightmare. A wall is the opposite of what America offers the world. A wall says:

America is Closed

America must never be closed.

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Yes, he’s guilty, but I don’t care!

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago03 mins

As we await the trial phase of the impeachment proceedings, it’s apparent that many members of the U.S. Senate are jumping past the first question – the question of fact – and starting on the question of punishment.

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