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  hardie karges 7:27 pm on January 7, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America ( 59 ), Gun control ( 2 ), Hardie Karges   

  GUNS, GERMANS, AND STEAL: THE FATE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY 

  “Don’t fence me in,”… just give me a gun…

   The current debates over gun control in the US are nothing new, of course, and, in a way, have nothing to do with guns or murders or bullets or magazines.  It has to do with control.  We Americans don’t trust control of any sort, especially when it emanates from above or from the center, the central government, that is.  Nor is this predilection entirely an American thing, though we’ve certainly carried the argument to its logical conclusion.  It should be noted straight away that this is the same debate—not similar, analogous, or metaphorically mellifluous—that operates in any and all discussions of economic, health, welfare and other forms of policy. 

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  hardie karges 5:33 pm on December 31, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Hardie Karges, hypertravel ( 12 ), New Year ( 5 ), Thailand ( 82 )   

  สวัสดีปีใหม่ Happy New Year! To reflect is humane, to shine is divine… 

  Ten years ago—to the day—I was lying in a bed somewhere in northern Thailand, attached to it in fact, in a sort of makeshift traction best accomplished with metal frames and waterproof members, making up in utility what it lacked in esthetics. Ironically it’s the same bed my wife’s grandmother had just died in, the same one I’d seen her in for the year-and-a-half of my marriage, she lying there comatose, oblivious, waiting to die, I can’t remember why, though it didn’t seem to bother anyone too much, being a natural phase I guess, relatives coming in to check periodically, sometimes even cracking jokes above her head, like swatting flies mid-air that couldn’t even be seen by the one victimized, she reduced to rubble, ashes to ashes and dust to dust no more than a scarce few weeks before. So what was I now doing in that same bed, just indulging in a little macabre fun? I wished. Here’s what happened. (More …)

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    kc 8:29 pm on December 31, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    well told tale my writer friend

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    hardie karges 1:28 pm on January 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply

    thank you

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    kc 4:25 pm on August 24, 2013 Permalink | Reply

    well a happy new year to you, now at the middle of the year. yes, losing consciousness for however long is like dying a little bit. maybe dying for a short while but dying just the same is that time you spend blacked out.

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      hardie karges 9:11 am on August 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      There are some Islamic references to each night being a “little death.” If that’s the case, then what is dreaming?

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    kc 11:49 am on August 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply

    dreaming is simply a rehash of our real life and days we spend in it. i think that little death was used as an analogy to orgasm and shooting heroin

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  hardie karges 10:07 am on December 26, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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  Tis’ the Season… to Avoid Depression: FA LA LA 2U2 

  Tis' the Season… to Avoid Depression: FA LA LA 2U2.

   
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  hardie karges 9:52 am on December 26, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Christmas ( 11 ), depression ( 6 ), Hardie Karges, holidays, hypertravel ( 12 ), New Year ( 5 )   

  Tis’ the Season… to Avoid Depression: FA LA LA 2U2 

  I have my own Christmas traditions, developed over decades and continents, usually wherever I happen to find myself on the blessed day, either for lack of imagination or some rogue inspiration, none of which places can usually be considered ‘home,’ as the concept seems to have largely eluded me over the years.  If stuck at ‘home,’ I find that the day can even make me extremely depressed if I don’t deal with it pro-actively, because even though I’m extremely put off by the commercialism of Christmas, that doesn’t mean that I can entirely dismiss it.  I know; I’ve tried. (More …)

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