Craig Maciolek
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Predictable Arrogance
The Insider Traders expected Iran to do what they always do; turn the other cheek. Create some fear, move the markets a bit, and make a killing. You know… business as usual. But now, Iran has become the Tar Baby… Continue reading
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The Laughing Genie
The three types of liars. Our imagination is capable of great creativity and great destruction. Through the medium of our choices and behaviors, it is the source of all manifestation. Truly, a genie in a lamp. Similarly, if we are… Continue reading
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A Descending Spiral
Addicts and fanatics all begin with simple lies and misdirections against their friends and family to push further into their darkness. As they continue along the downward spiral, their manipulations and deceits become more intricate, desperate, and fragile. Eventually, they must… Continue reading
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Crime Storylines
For the fiction writers. In the past I had the idea for a crime thriller storyline, where hackers and con-artists steal a guy’s identity and use it to double cross drug dealers as a cover for hacking his accounts and… Continue reading
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Building An American Culture
Applying context to one cornerstone of our society. ** I took some notes that have been clogging up my notebook for far too long and put them into Google Gemini, asking it to write an essay in the style of… Continue reading
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A Modern Dreyfus
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” by Sir Walter Scott, from his poem Marmion. Imagine a person who was set up to appear guilty. A patsy. Not set up to appear entirely guilty,… Continue reading
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