I don’t believe we can look at the sound and fury of the past week and a half while still clinging to the idyllic notion that we’re “the cradle of liberty.” Not anymore. The phlegm from my nasty head cold… Read More ›
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COVID SARS 19 – NOT DETECTED
We have colds. COVID-SARS 19 was Not Detected. We’re good – until the next cold! I looked at our medical records and realized this is the fourth time we’ve been tested for COVID. About every third month we get “something”… Read More ›
GLUED TO THE NEWS
I admit it. Other than a short car ride with Owen today, I watched the news. Garry has a cold. Not a really bad cold, but he was already bummed having realized that NOTHING he thought was going to get… Read More ›
YESTERDAY AND AGAIN, TODAY
Yesterday was really a wild day for news and probably it will be the same today. I think — or at least I profoundly hope — that the biggest group of crazies has blown their cover and won’t be able… Read More ›
THE WILD WILD WORLD OF NEWS
It’s not as if the past four years have been a peaceful period in the news biz. News has been hyperactive since Bill Clinton’s administrations. It has been full of wars (new and old), racial and social divisions, immigration, terrorism,… Read More ›
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR
Remember the line from a song in Mary Poppins (the original movie with Julie Andrews) where she sang “Just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down?” I remember when Trump was elected saying that once he got… Read More ›
IS THERE ANY NEWS WITHOUT THE ORANGE MENACE?
Over the past four years, we’ve become addicted to the Orange Menace. Whether you hated or loved him, he was our national — international — soap opera. No longer did we need to wait for an event or calamity to… Read More ›
A SHORT EXCERPT FROM TODAY’S BOSTON GLOBE
This piece from yesterday’s Boston Globe hit me like a rock in the head. I understand we are all frustrated, grouchy, and possibly poor — and suffering poverty and helplessness in the face of this pandemic. That being said, I… Read More ›
TOUCHY TOPICS FROM BLOGGING INSIGHTS
Blogging Insights # 52 — Touchy Topics I thought this was interesting, so I figured I’d chime in. I’m always good for an opinion when asked and often, even when unasked. Do you post about touchy or sensitive topics on… Read More ›
PLUTOCRACY OR OLIGARCHY? THE UGLY CHOICE OF THIS UPCOMING ELECTION
We live in a country full of shallow, if not outrightly stupid people. They watch “the news” and believe it’s all lies because an orange-skinned bloke says so. As a woman whose husband was a television news reporter for more… Read More ›
TODAY’S NEWS AT SIX
Watching the news tonight was illuminating, in an Illuminati kind of way The first subject they covered was politics, including the postal crisis, a couple of local races, plus concerns about not getting ballots delivered or entered on time. It… Read More ›
THERE’S GOTTA BE A PONY IN THERE SOMEWHERE – BY TOM CURLEY
There’s an old joke about a psychiatrist who was trying to see if he could change an optimist into a pessimist and a pessimist into an optimist. He took two children, one very optimistic and one very pessimistic. He put… Read More ›
