The Hippie Blog

Writings From The Author Of The Hippie Dictionary

March 19, 2024

California is my hometown

California is my hometown

 

Everyone has a hometown, whether from birth or from choice. I have chosen California and all its towns and neighborhoods.

 

If you believe home is an emotion, as I do, then you may know, as I do, that travel from home is a quest...

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March 15, 2024

Technology/creativity and Capitalisem don't mix well

   Cars, computers, and cell phones require creativity and technology to be produced... it takes capitalism to diminish and destroy them. 

It took about 100 years to create the most perfect car... the 1997 Volvo 850, and it has taken the Ford Company and now the Chinese to ...

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March 14, 2024

His father killed his spirit

   Arrogance and insecurity, are a tragic and volatile combination in a man  

The young man struggled through his school career. It wasn’t

the academics, social life or sports that caused him grief. Good-look

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March 13, 2024

Social security scam on the poor and middle class

    The new scheme/scam for paying Social Security checks late to some recipients is a new glitch for the poor and middle-class. People who pay their rent with their SS checks and low-level mom-and-pop landlords are going to have to shuck and jive to manage their money.

The...

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March 12, 2024

I am a Free-Enterprise Socialist--- that is democratic economics

A Free-Enterprise Socialist believes in the freedom of everyone to be enterprising,  and that's not Capitalism. We believe in social systems to help people get a free-thinking and adequate education and to be free from staggering poverty and the lack of medical care.   

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