Short takes from a journey through a disorganized mind: *** I just aged by 10 years overnight. For some reason, people keep posting things on Facebook asking how old you would be if you reversed the two digits in your age. When I asked asked that yesterday, I could say 17. As of today, it’s …
“When you’re a star, you can do whatever you want.” If the quote sounds familiar, but you can’t quite place it, it’s the important part of Donald Trump’s famous “grab ’em by the pussy” quote, the one that proved to us that when conservative voters say character matters, they’re lying. Has there ever been a …
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When Donald Trump was running against Hillary Clinton, he suggested the possibility that she might win the election. This of course would have been disastrous to the far right, so Trump made some sort of stupid remark and maybe the only way to stop her might be “Second Amendment remedies.” In case you didn’t get …
Does anybody south of Scarborough remember the Maine? I would be willing to bet it’s been a hundred years since anybody outside of Texas remembered the Alamo. What’s the point, anyway? Remember the Alamo by beating up a Mexican? There really needs to be an expiration date on these things, especially since they all seem …
I don’t think I ever worried about whether my two children would be alive to return home from school at the end of the day. They graduated from high school in 1998 and 2003, and we lived in an extremely upscale community. We were concerned about things like drugs, but survival was way down the …
“… I’m sorry it’s come down to this, there’s so much about you that I’m gonna miss …” Things I should have said? Who would believe that two minutes and just a couple of sentences could do so much damage that they ruined the better part of two decades and maybe had even more effect …
The oldest man ever living died this week. Actually, Bob Dole was only 98, and he wasn’t even the oldest famous person to die this year. But for the last 10 years or so, Dole has been the best humorous example of extreme old age. Bob Dole is the last living Civil War veteran. No, …
There isn’t a more difficult job to do well than being a parent. That’s why people like James and Jennifer Crumbley of Oakland County, Mich., are such an object lesson for these sad times. Their 15-year-old son Ethan murdered four of his classmates with a semi-automatic pistol his parents had purchased for him just four …
I am sick and tired of listening to the gun nuts whine about their rights being more important than the lives of people’s children. It’s one thing to say they have a right to own guns guaranteed by the Second Amendment, even though it was never seen as an absolute right until the last 40-50 …
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“Apologies for the cynicism, but we humans have become so spoiled and entitled, we can hardly suffer a slow Uber driver, a long line at the grocery or bank, a shortage of nearly anything, or the slightest disruptions in our cherished routines.” There’s an old expression that I believe originated in the military. “Shit flows …
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