Eric R. Eaton

Cannot emphasize this enough.

If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.

Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt

Oops, my bad. LOL!

Ok.

Many teams have had so many injuries that there has been no continuity. The NFL should return to a 14 game schedule with two byes at minimum. Ideally, eventually, raging popularity of women’s flag football compels NFL to abandon the tackling model. Hey, I can dream.

Those of you tolerating billionaires don’t seem to understand that it’s global capitalism that is creating them, and we have to create a new system that doesn’t.

Hope not.

Respectfully, nope.

Unpopular(?) take on American pro football season: some NFL teams are taking advantage of a weak schedule, and injuries to players on opposing teams, and they will be exposed as mediocre pretenders in the playoffs. Eagles probably win Super Bowl again. Sigh.

No country should have billionaires!

I find it rather ironic that the currency of ecosystems is energy, with an absolute value, which must flow freely for ecosystems to function. In economics, currency is money, with arbitrary value, which is hoarded, and “energy” means something else entirely.

It’s not a “cost to work productivity,” but it *is* a cost to majority shareholders, the only people who matter in a corporate capitalist economy.

I think it’s a relatively new, but universal, phenomenon.

True!

So true! I just wrote a post about this on my “Bug Eric” blog.

Conference realignment has screwed every school not in the Big Ten or the SEC. The sooner the “super conference” experiment implodes, the better!

Don’t forget the wasps, and I’m not saying that just because I wrote a book about them! 😊

I can at least avoid the rain and gloom in person this way. 😁

Not easy to answer! Maybe all of us reading the question are too privileged/advantaged already?

I think you are way ahead of our time. I am very happy to have found your account. Thank you for being here!

Not *always*, as corruption is mostly power-seeking behavior.

I don’t think anyone commenting here to reference the former pro basketball star means any harm, or wants to diminish *your* take. At least I hope not. Great example of generational differences, though. Carry on, know that you are loved and appreciated!

I grew up in Portland (1960s through 1980s), but rarely get back, so I thank you for letting me visit virtually through your images.

Ha! If AI writes something, but no human ever reads it, does the “work” still exist?

Love it. I like the way you think!

Small falcon (Merlin), atop a wooden utility pole, with insulator and wire on left side, all against a blue sky. Bird is gray on the back, and much of head, with gray "sideburns" on white cheeks. Flanks are white with heavy brown bars.

Small falcon (Merlin) perched on tree branch with other branches and twigs around it and in front of it, against a blue sky. Bird is facing camera obliquely. Breast and belly are dirty white with heavy gray-brown streaks and bars. Head is mostly gray with white eyebrown and dark gray "sideburns." Eye is dark, beak short and hooked.

My partner and I went on a walk today. We got about a block before she noticed this Merlin falcon atop a utility pole, eating prey. We dashed back to get our cameras. Bird was done feeding, but flew only a short distance to a nearby tree. Leavenworth, Kansas USA. #birdsky #birds #birding

It *is* very good.

Here’s the thing: I don’t believe you can turn politicians into public servants, even with the promise of more money. It’s two different mindsets.

This got me to follow you, even though I am definitely not a gamer.

What a wonderful, inclusive sentiment. Thank you!

This is a great post. Elicits thoughtful responses, a bit of nostalgia, and points us to new lenses we should be looking through. Thank you!