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  Babson’s gravity essay: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BabsonGravity-OurEnemy.pdf   His Autobiography: https://digitalcollections.babson.edu/digital/collection/rogerbabson/id/21/rec/1   His Account of his Presidential Run: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000009810195&seq=7   Economy: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/stock-market-crash-of-1929    https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/09/05/90-year-ago-roger-babson-predicted-the-market-crash-what-would-he-say-today/?sh=56124be538d6   Gravity: https://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/historic   https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/gravitys-sworn-enemy-roger-babson-and-gravity-research-foundation/   http://www.newbostonhistoricalsociety.com/gravity.html#:~:text=Roger%20Babson%20(1875%2D1967),his%20sister%20and%20his%20grandson The Magic Circle:  https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/id/34632/ ...

Aimless Thoughts: One More For the Road

2022 On the last day of August I was sitting at the shore of Lake Michigan, letting mild waves pull me into the muck. Kanye West was in my headphones rapping about Chicago. I threw a pebble toward where I thought Menasha probably was. It skipped five or six times as the guy from Coldplay sang, “I'm comin’ home again, maybe we can start again”. I hated the only home I’d ever known. Some eight hours from now I'd be headed back. My north star was a girl in Nebraska. A month later I got my first full-time job because of her. Broke, futureless youth was finally behind me. In a year I'd have enough vacation accrued to drive down to her. Everything was looking up, assuming the job went well.  My dad texted me out of the blue: the Covid-era King Gizzard tickets he got me for my birthday in 2020 were still valid, they're coming back to Chicago in October.  The same week I started my job. Fuck, I couldn't afford another bad first impression. But as far as I was concerned back...