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Looking Back

When you get older you can't help but spend time looking back. It's an important thing to do, primarily to learn new lessons and set the table for moving forward. This essay explores some of the things I've learned in my journey.
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Time for a "New Democrat" Party

The 2022 mid-terms provided a lot of information about ways that democrats might regain synchronicity with the electorate. This post takes a look at what that might involve.
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Opportunity is overrated

A short essay considering the value of opportunity in life.
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A Dollar Is Not A Vote

Few will argue (effectively, anyway) that many of our current problems are rooted in the ascendance of money as a critical factor in politics. This essay explores a grassroot option to do away with Citizens United, stop the unending and deceptive attempts to put your money in the hands of candidates.
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why coruus?

It's a quirk of archaic language that appeals to me. Corvus is a genus of birds in the Corvidae family; crows.  I happen to find crow behavior to be interesting and, on occasion, instructive.

As for the replacement of the V with U, in Classical Latin, there was no distinction between the letters V and U. The name "Venus" would be written in inscriptions as VENVS.

However, there was a difference in pronunciation: sometimes the letter V represented one sound and the letter U another.

Modern editors typically show this distinction by writing the consonant as "V" and the vowel as "U". One exception to the rule, in modern editions, is that "U" is typically used after "Q" (even though there was no /u/ vowel there). So we see "equus" instead of the expected "eqvus" (compare "flavus").

It's a quirky use that appeals to me. I've owned the coruus.com domain since 1996.


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