Tag Archives: Greensboro

Fighting for the Customer

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Fec

As #Greensboro inexorably approaches the gaping maw of Dystopia, I want to talk about customer relationships. I wrote custom software for 25 years, before being pushed out by the internet. For the last eight years, I’ve run the Wife’s ecommerce … Continue reading →

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A Day in Greensboro

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Fec

This morning, around 11, we took Darth Beetle downtown to the Greensboro Jewelry Show. We shoe-horned our compact car into the tiny parking spaces at the Special Events Center, and avoided the semi-naked swimmers from the Aquatic Center, to register … Continue reading →

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This Ain’t Freaking Florida

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Fec

Yesterday, the Wife closed the deal with Champion on the Florida room. She had just returned from taking her mom to Carlisle, PA for her 65th year college reunion. Nearly everyone I know has come down with a cold from … Continue reading →

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Discretion is the Better Part of Twitter

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Fec

This morning, after eight years, I deactivated my pro-Russian Twitter account. I’d done about all I could to battle the false narrative and had mocked the locals until I tired of punching down. Visa and Mastercard cutting off access to … Continue reading →

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How the IGMFUPAC Destroyed the World

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Fec

Greensboro’s $100M downtown performing arts center, which is to open in a few weeks, has sold naming rights at $7.5M for ten years, to Steven Tanger, scion of Tanger Outlets, a commercial real estate investment trust. While coming up with … Continue reading →

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Greensboro-Randolph Megasite

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Fec

A while back, someone I trust told me the biggest secret in Greensboro concerned the megasite to which the city has provided water and sewer services.  He indicated competition for industries is a waste of time because the site had … Continue reading →

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Kathy Manning

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Fec

Lest I be banned by Twitter. A tight race is shaping up in an NC district that Democrats have a chance to flip #Greensboro voters know #KathyManning to be an idiot, liar and thief who supports #BabyKillers. #TedBudd #gsopol #KathyManning … Continue reading →

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Greensboro’s Neocon Legacy

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Fec

From Philip Rojc at Inside Philanthropy in 2016: Like many influential worldviews in Washington, neoconservative thought didn’t emerge fully-formed from the wellspring of American public sentiment. It was nurtured, and the Connecticut-based Smith Richardson Foundation is one key nurturer. Compared … Continue reading →

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Greensboro Zionists

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Fec

I find myself in the awkward position of having just attempted to memorialize the late great Bob Parry and putting up an hilariously anti-Semitic post about government and politics in Greensboro.  Regardless, the similarities to Zionist warmongers are profound. Before … Continue reading →

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Greensboro PAC Will Never be Built

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Fec

From Dawn Kane at the N&R: GREENSBORO — The planned downtown performing arts center took a major step toward reality Tuesday when the City Council awarded a construction contract. By a vote of 8-1, the council awarded the $57.9 million contract … Continue reading →

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