Diary (January 28, 2021)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday January 28, 2021.

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When I brand someone a fool

When I brand someone a fool, I am judging character, judging intellect, judging critical reasoning skills.

The fool lacks critical reasoning skills.

I am qualified to judge the fool because I possess critical reasoning skills.

Branding someone a fool is an insult.

The insult is the pain of hot brand scorching flesh:

Remember my judgement! — and let your burning face tell.

When I brand someone a fool

I frown

While you smirk, I frown.

I, Scorpion

You know the story of the scorpion and the frog and the river?

I am a scorpion in a land without frogs and without rivers.

I, Scorpion

Memo to Howard Kranz re: America's tragic poet

Ignorance Kills

Ignorance kills.

Spread the word.

Ignorance Kills

Stock Market Blues

Stock Markets are rigged games of chance which the rich use to get richer.

Now the poor have used internet collective action to upset the entire game.

The rich protest "Unfair!" and shut down the game and cry for government regulatory protection.

• [ Comment] @ Facebook

Stock Market Blues

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles