Author: michael o. allen
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My night with ChatGPT
I had difficulty falling back asleep after waking up around 3:30 in the morning. I had a few things in my mind so I fired up ChatGPT. Dear reader, I beg your forbearance as you’ll notice I jumped around in the interrogations. It was intentional. It’s my first time with ChatGPT and I wanted to…
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Many have tried but, as the saying goes, you can’t buy class
Despite employing arguably the best football coach in the world, stocking its rosters with the world’s best players, gaining a stranglehold on the English Premier League titles for last decade-plus, Manchester City F.C. often projects the aura of inauthenticity. Manchester United, moribund for nearly as long as City has been ascendant, has the mystique of…
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Let’s make all members of Congress undergo security clearance
The situation surrounding George Santos—whose identity, even at this late date, we’re still not sure of, what his purpose is, and who exactly is behind installing him in our government—sets me thinking. Why not make people elected to Congress undergo Top Secret Security Clearance? Our democracy is in an existential crisis, especially because one of…
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President Barack Obama’s Farewell Address
Hello Chicago! It’s good to be home! Thank you, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It’s good to be home. Thank you. We’re on live TV here, I’ve got to move. You can tell that I’m a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions. Everybody have…
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President Obama’s Security Speech
Remarks by the President on the Administration’s Approach to Counter-terrorism The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release-December 06, 2016 MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Well, thank…
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‘For Your Precious Love’ – Otis Redding
For your precious love means more to me Than any love could ever be For when I wanted you I was so lonely and so blue For that’s what love will do Darling, I’m so surprised, Oh, when I first realized That you were fooling me Darling, they say that our love won’t grow I…
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‘The Cool, Cool River’
Moves like a fist through traffic Anger and no one can heal it Shoves a little bump into the momentum It’s just a little lump But you feel it In the creases and the shadows With a rattling deep emotion The cool, cool river Sweeps the wild, white ocean Yes boss, the government handshake Yes…
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Republicans’ Frankenstein Monster
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did something today that Democrats should have been doing everyday for the last eight years. He called out Congressional Republicans for their unrelenting obstructionism. History will look back and note that the Republican Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect. No one expected them to agree with everything that…
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You Say Vote
You say vote and someone says: “Democracy is a sham. Those people don’t speak for me. The system is rigged.” You say vote. Someone says: “Well, it doesn’t make a difference. This state is red. Another state is blue. This thing is already a lock.” You say vote. Someone says: “Hey, I’m making a statement…
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Baby Bomber!
So, at the top of the 7th inning yesterday, the Yankees had scored a run to tie the Tampa Bay Rays at 2-2. There were two runners on base but also two outs and the Yankees’ sensational rookie catcher Gary Sanchez was ambling up to the plate, with Butler following him. There was frantic discussion…