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2016 is off to good start, and I'm grateful

January lifted off with a bang. An unexpected promotion. One person moved out of my house. A close friend moved in from Houston. Then he moved out. Regional sales conference. District sales training. First flight of the year. Unexpected limousine ride. Landed our best interview ever. New energy customers. And a trip to Washington DC coming up in a few weeks.  Not everything has been great. My son still decides to act an ass when he sees fit. It's getting better, but we still have a lot of work to do. 

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Dear America: Donald Trump is the candidate you deserve

C'mon, America. Or should I say 'Murica? You knew this was coming. It was inevitable. There's no way of Earf. Yes, on God's green Earf you would get away with some most heinous vile racist divisive rhetoric throughout your whole entire history without eventually getting a Donald Trump as a frontrunner for the highest office in the land. You made the Trump. You are him and he is you.  This country is built on systemic racism.

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Politics in the age of the Internet: President Obama's final State of the Union 2016

After tonight's final State of the Union delivered by President Barack Obama, it's clear that modern politics is no different. And #blacktwitter came alive. And it was glorious. The whole thing was glorious. It was his night and the whole world was watching. And he knew it. And he knew his words would be recorded in the books of history.And a nation came alive. Either with a sense of hope and accomplishment or with disdain or disgust. A nation was alive in discussion.

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