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Cobb: The Jihad Next Door
As Cobb readers know, sometime around 7 years ago, I realized some awful things about the American electorate the fundamental nature of which can be described as lazy. I also recognized that when intelligent collaboration fails, human beings almost inst...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 11:01am -07:00T (895 words)
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Cobb: XBox One: More Than Hardware
My friend Iz says XBox One sounds like a PS3 because now it has BluRay. Iz is not a gamer.
XBox is going to be a lot more used as the input to my big screen. I already do Netflix through it, now I see reasons to do more through it. I've never really thou...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:46pm -07:00T (1039 words)
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Cobb: The Next XBox
The most important thing about the next XBox is that it has decent USB support and a fat local disk. I expect MSFT to do the right thing with regards to memory and processing power - obviously all of the Unreal and world-builder types are the real custome...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 7:16pm -07:00T (283 words)
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Cobb: Living in Zinn
My liberal arts education is completed and I'm starting up my martial education. I ran across something by Chap, which suddenly reminded me of how difficult that liberal arts education was for me as a young black man. What occasioned this was thinking a...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 9:46pm -07:00T (679 words)
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Cobb: Oblivion
Some movies you just have to see. I make sure I see them. Why? Because movies are visual experiences and little else as far as I'm concerned.
A story that I can't quite see through is a plus, but not necessary. Sometimes moviemakers are trying to be too...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 7:16pm -07:00T (278 words)
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Cobb: My Brick is BRCK
It turns out that one of the original ideas in my novel-in-progress Borky's Beach, is becoming a reality. Now I have to keep my ears closed. It's rather strange that they've come up with the exact same name with the exact same purpose, but it makes perfec...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 2:16pm -07:00T (1926 words)
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Cobb: On Charles Ramsey
The thing I like about Charles Ramsey is that finally, he's the guy who knew what he was talking about. Most of the time when I used to pay attention to such stuff, I got the impression that reporters would deliberately seek out the loudest black man on t...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 12:01am -07:00T (78 words)
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Cobb: Coates, Fight Club & The Uneducated Man
Coates. Him say:
I have all the repressed rage of a kid who was bullied — except now I have some size to match. At that moment, violent fantasies, wholly unmentionable, were dancing in my head. Contributing to those fantasies was a simple maxim inher...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 12:01am -07:00T (849 words)
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Cobb: Bungie Destiny: Speculation One
I am already extraordinarily excited about the next videogame from Bungie, Destiny. Halo was the first videogame that made me take videogames seriously all those many years ago. They took Halo to the next level multiple times, and when you consider the wa...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 1:46pm -07:00T (733 words)
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Cobb: The Castle
I have begun something of a stupid quest, because in fact I'm done with questing. I have all of the answers to big questions that my life requires and I am settling down to being practical. Nevertheless the habit of reading for the sake of enlightenment...
Dateline: 2013-04-27 10:31am -07:00T (339 words)
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Cobb: Lure of the Guild
There is something retro deep inside me, and I think in all of us, when it comes to dealing with alienation of modern, global life. I think the proper thing to do is to work your way through modern, global life and supplant its alienation with a whiff o...
Dateline: 2013-04-22 2:31pm -07:00T (727 words)
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Cobb: Everybody Hates A Level Playing Field
This is an argument for class and against equality.Â
Imagine that you were introduced to basketball by Michael Jordan. He teaches you how to dribble, to shoot, to block, to assist. You get pretty good. And then he starts playing. Every day you are pla...
Dateline: 2013-04-19 1:31pm -07:00T (1443 words)
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Cobb: Prayers of the Rich & Famous
I've been thinking about the power of prayer along with the power of Facebook likes. I would guess that they are about equal in sentimental value.Â
When something bad happens, people need to be fixed. As readers of Cobb know, I deal with recompense i...
Dateline: 2013-04-18 12:01am -07:00T (160 words)
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Cobb: A 32 Minute Lesson On Integrity
This is the new criticism. You need to understand it.
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Dateline: 2013-04-16 6:01pm -07:00T (10 words)
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Cobb: First Quarter Report
It has been a rather extraordinary year so far. I like the way it's heading.
I realize that I am not foolish and that if I only maintain an even keel, I may very well move ahead, but sometimes I sail into rough waters. That's where I am right now, but th...
Dateline: 2013-04-07 11:46pm -07:00T (870 words)
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