Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the check out gate It’s easy for us to conceive of the fall of empires. Born in hubris, and often ending because of it,...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Oct 10, 2021
- 2 min
When the Elizabethans took over
As history tells the tale, the old regime fell quickly, and before you knew it there was a new ruler and a renewal of the horrible status...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
The Parable of the Squeaky Wheel
We all know the fate of squeaky wheels; they get the grease. But other wheels, less audible but with conditions far more dire, are left...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
The Princess and the Pea
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful but miserable princess. She was an altogether irritable and troublesome sort who confounded and...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 25, 2019
- 2 min
Slouching towards Babylon
In Michelangelo’s day, he labored in Florence in the presence of dozens of competing artists and sculptors. Shakespeare’s was one voice...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 24, 2019
- 1 min
Netflix and Buridan's ass
In Aesops's fable of Buridan's ass, an ass walks between two equidistant bales of hay. Indecisive as to which bale to eat, he starved to...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 23, 2019
- 2 min
Mindfulness Unvarnished
The best things in life are free, and true as well is its corollary, that the best ideas for living a good life are also free. Like a...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 22, 2019
- 1 min
Bad Psychology Definition of the Day
Useful Idiot: A follower of a political, social, or economic principle that embodies policies that achieve its opposite, but does not...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 17, 2019
- 1 min
Gone in a Fortnite: The Rise of Junk Culture
A 13 year old kid wins a Fortnite Cup after spending entire half of his waking life for the last two years playing on line. Think about...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
Antonio Salieri, Homer Simpson, and the Echoes of Genius
In the movie 'Amadeus' the aged composer Salieri despaired that his once exalted reputation had vanished, with scarcely anyone playing...
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Dr. Mezmer
- Aug 3, 2019
- 1 min
Mezmer Thaws Out
It seems that just yesterday I was speelunking in a Greenland glacier, when I slipped and fell into a crevasse, and was freezed dried....
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