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Let’s Brighten the Midweek with Lovely Flowers

Now that the vernal equinox is behind us, we are officially in Spring. Yes, snow will still fall, dark clouds still shroud the blue sky and we’re still a few months away from flip-flops but officially, dammit, it’s Spring. In … Continue reading

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Exhibit A: The Power of Visual Branding

Without his mustache, he’d still be a mass-murdering, psycho-racist, but he’d be so much less…Fuhrer (photoshop courtesy of Buzzfeed). Another totally-unrelated random thought from this past weekend: if you don’t believe we lose valuable things in the ever-increasing, pell-mell pace … Continue reading

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Life Is A Test, And These Days It’s REALLY Multiple Choice

You know, about the time I realized that we were already four years into the US Mint’s ten year program of releasing five state quarters a year, I also concluded too much choice can really mess you up.  Convenience stores … Continue reading

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File Under “Mixed Signals”–the Simmering Kids and Eyeglasses Controversy

In my daily scanning of internet ephemera that I justify under the catchall heading of ‘keeping tabs on the culture,’ two items popped up yesterday that my cerebral cortex couldn’t reconcile without massive cognitive dissonance. First, an item posted on … Continue reading

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