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Redneck Ingenuity – or Schizophrenic Engineering?

I know rednecks.  I should.  I am one generation removed from hillbillies.  Around these parts people who are one generation removed must go through the redneck phase – and sometimes that phase lasts a couple of generations.  I am known as a half-breed because I obtained a formal university education.  Even my redneck friends will [...]

5Feb2010 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
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Polite Manners With Name Prefixes

How do you address others?  How are we supposed to address others?  The internet serves to mix cultures and polite manners.  My internet friend in San Francisco calls me Mr. Tone.  I call her Ann – thinking by so doing I would subtly give her permission to call me Ohg.  She figured me out and [...]

12Jun2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
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The Sentence – confusing a simple thought

The sentence is the most simple form of expressing a thought. The sentence must have a subject and a predicate – well, not exactly. The subject and predicate can be explicit, or simply understood. We are assuming of course that one wants to express a complete thought. But a sentence may also have an object, may have modifiers, may have connectives, and may have independent elements. So what is so hard about that? Please feel free to help with this understanding.

17Feb2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
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Rovians From The Planet Bushanus

They are finally being arrested, secured, immobilized.  They come from the planet Bushanus and are called Rovians.  Rovians live in the bowels of humanity, infecting civilized people with flu like symptoms.  We wander through the news cycle, feeling nauseated, faint-hearted, and dismayed.  Some suffer lethal effects, others are carriers.
They came to this planet about [...]

5Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Bush Sends FEMA to Wall Street

thousand mobile homes are being resurrected from the old cotton fields down home. Bush has ordered the National Guard to fill 85,000,000 sand bags. Proclaiming on National Television Bush declares, “Everybody do something, it it doesn’t work we can surge later.”

25Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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The War Prayer, by Mark Twain

Mark Twain says it best. Once again it took an artist to capture the staggering essence of events that many Americans have become immune to. This particular writing is in response to the Spanish-American war with the Philippines in 1898.

Mark Twain became an anti-imperialist.  Born Samuel Clemens in Hannibal, Missouri, he was an honest patriot.  [...]

28Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Procrastination Posting

Timing is everything in blogging. Well, not everything. Content is a key element, but secondary to timing. It is important, though… content… but you have to wait for the right content to come along, or it just isn’t worth the effort.
I never post anything early in the morning. It comes off as too zealous. It [...]

12May2008 | bryan | 2 comments | Continued