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Single & retired from careers in USN & subsequent business. Engineer (BS/ME+); artist; woodworker; writer; left-of-center-curmudgeon/populist; drug law reform activist and (some say) intellectual. Spiritual and unorthodox but not religious .
I do not tolerate negativity-for-the-sake-of-negativity, but neither am I a fool who believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Negotiations and compromise are always preferable to war . . . which is ALWAYS and invariably "practical economics".
One owes it to himself to give all "new" Ideas, however bizarre or trite, a hearing before being dismissed . . . which begs the question: How does one know if an idea is "new" or not until he's heard it?".
Shoot the messenger ONLY if he brings you nothing but good news.