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 About Dennis E. PowellDennis E. Powell is crackpot-at-large to Open for Business. Powell was an award-winning reporter in New York and elsewhere before moving to Ohio and becoming a full-time crackpot. You can reach him at dep@drippingwithirony.com. Articles by Dennis E. PowellPage 1 of 8. The View from Mudsock Heights: Good News Reminds Me I Have a Lot of Work to Do Before WinterBy Dennis E. Powell | Jul 30, 2010 at 21:37:35Happy surprises are so rare that when one occurs it’s worth passing along. I had been worried that I was running out of propane. It had been a year or more since the big tank got filled and, glancing at the gauge a few weeks ago I saw it was pretty low. The View from Mudsock Heights: Sea Salt? Organic Sugar? What Exactly are We Talking About Here?By Dennis E. Powell | Jul 19, 2010 at 23:15:7The chips tasted pretty good — then I saw the words that made me put them down. No, the bag did not say “contains triglycerides” or “full of transfats.” It said — proudly, if you can believe it — “with sea salt.” The View from Mudsock Heights: I Thought I Knew About Tomato Growing, But I Was WrongBy Dennis E. Powell | Jul 15, 2010 at 20:1:18This year I may have to can some tomatoes. The “putting up” of vegetables was an annual ritual when I was a child, and as a grownup I’ve threatened to do it from time to time, but this year it might just happen. The View from Mudsock Heights: Pictures Need Captions if They’re to Be Worth a Thousand WordsBy Dennis E. Powell | Jul 7, 2010 at 17:57:39Who are these people? What is this place? If I had a dime for every time I’ve asked those questions in the last week, I’d be well-set financially. The View From Mudsock Heights: A Dreaded Task Brings My Sister and Me in Touch with Long-Dead RelativesBy Dennis E. Powell | Jun 27, 2010 at 21:6:0The attic was hot, very dusty in a way that attics full of boxes can be, and peculiarly exciting. My family has usually succeeded in resisting an alarming tradition, that of getting rid of everything a relative owned as soon as possible after his or her death. When my mom died three summers ago, all her stuff got packed into boxes and taken to the attic of my sister’s house in Milwaukee. Now my sister was moving and my mother’s possessions needed to be dealt with. The View from Mudsock Heights: Memories of an Old Vacation Spark New Appreciation of How Safe We Are Right HereBy Dennis E. Powell | Jun 19, 2010 at 23:38:4Looking at the old picture, I had to laugh. I took it in the summer of 1986 in the Texas panhandle, while on vacation with my girlfriend. She was from New England and had as much knowledge of the space between there and California as most of us have of, say, Madagascar. This is not a condition at all unusual in the northeast. The View from Mudsock Heights: Corporations are Insensitive to the Needs and Feelings of — MeBy Dennis E. Powell | Jun 13, 2010 at 15:25:26We live in a time in which the greatest offenses one can commit include hurting someone’s feelings. A day does not pass that we do not hear of the need for “sensitivity training” for the “unenlightened” transgressors among us. The View from Mudsock Heights: Awareness is Fine, But It Takes a Lot More Than That to Cure DiseasesBy Dennis E. Powell | Jun 2, 2010 at 9:54:42All the time we hear about it: the “race for a cure” or a “walk” for this or that illness. When it is explained why the event is being held, the phrase “raise awareness” is always included. Money is always raised, too; it’s never entirely clear what the money is used for. Perhaps it is used to purchase awareness from those who do not give it away. The View from Mudsock Heights: Linux Has Come Far — In One Case, Maybe Too FarBy Dennis E. Powell | May 22, 2010 at 21:33:31The free software movement, which in many respects means the Linux operating system, is a puzzle to those accustomed to paying for things. Software is expensive stuff — how good can the stuff be if it doesn’t cost anything? The View from Mudsock Heights: The Way to Deal With the Alien Invasion is to Find Them, Cook Them, and Eat ThemBy Dennis E. Powell | May 5, 2010 at 23:43:30It was bound to happen, sometime. Indeed, two-thirds of the way through my sixth decade, with most of it spent near them, it surprises me it didn’t happen sooner. |
The Danger of PeacemakerBy Timothy R. ButlerHere is a story. The leaders of a church have a personal agenda against someone and want to quiet him, exact revenge or what have you. They not only come at him within their church, they continue by following him outside of that church to any other church he seeks refuge at and any place he works, making a wreck of his life in the process. That is the sort of thing that only happened in the past, in dusty tales of witch-hunts in Salem or the Inquisition in Spain, right? Wrong: it is happening today, perhaps at a seemingly normal church near you. |
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