Stray scraps of brain paper

Half way through January, and my list of resolutions looks like a bargain appliance picked up at a scratch-and-dent clearance sale. And you? Most of the vehement independents I know (the one-man-for-himself, I-got-this, don’t need you for anything types) bring their rugged Individualist pseudo-swagger with little credibility to back it up. Because they live in …