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Wake Up America!
Buy a T-shirt: Support sanity! Over at Facebook, I suggested we need a new national bipartisan movement called “Wake Up America!” Its name could be taken as direct address (Wake Up, America!) or as a...
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Digital Junk
Do you not feel overwhelmed by the sheer, VAST quantity of digital ephemera that comes at you from every direction? About 99.9 percent of it is pure junk; maybe 1 percent (at the outside…) is something...
View ArticleHappy Fourth of July!
Yesh…despite our country’s dire political straits and the question of whether we continue at all as a democratic republic or whether we turn into a Mussoliniesque dictatorship, we still are, après...
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Birdosaurus Rex and Bums
So last night after the human got back from watching fireworks, the Tribe went out in back to wring out the dogs. There in the darkness I see a black form scuttling across the ground. “Huh,” think I....
View ArticleLivelying Up Again
Last couple of days I’ve felt more lively than I have all summer. Probably it has to do with the slight drop in outside temperatures — still in the low 100s, but 105 is a far cry from 115. And the...
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Fun & Games with Equifax
Amazing. A hundred and forty-three million people get all their private financial information stolen from Equifax, an organization that snoops into your business and accrues data about you without your...
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An Era Ends
Sunday was our beloved choir director‘s grand finale, his last day before his (we expect) even more grand retirement. The choir loft was packed with present and former singers, all come to celebrate...
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Groceries: Online or In Person?
A thing of the past? Here’s an amusement: Whilst Amazon makes a grab for Whole Foods, cheapies down its offerings, and turns it into an order-out joint, Aldi is going in the opposite direction: Opening...
View ArticleNo, i do NOT know what that is
WHY WordPress has kindly decided to reproduce November 4’s post in the sidebar, I do not know. A query is out to the Web guru. Meanwhile, stop that laughing!
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Good Cheap Coffee!
All right, all right: where else, eh? Costco. To my astonishment, Costco carries some decent whole-bean coffees. Not great, but very much on the high side of acceptable. And the stuff is cheap beyond...
View ArticleNews You Can Believe (More or less) (Free, mostly)
News hunger! Several readers remarked happily when I mentioned some of my favorite news sites the other day. We Netizens have a bottomless pit of news and play-nooz sites from which to build our...
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Bureaucracy as Circus
Ever hear the classic circus theme song jingling as you confront yet another hilarious bureaucracy? Of late, the Kid and I have been thinking about changing our little enterprise’s direction, away...
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The Latest Online: Two more chapters of Ella’s Story *FREE!*
Chapter 2 seemed a little short and its ending seemed a little abrupt… So I threw in chapter 3 of Ella’s Story. So, two chapters: today’s contribution to the ongoing round of FREE offerings of Fine...
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Money, Medical Practice, and the Patient
So you’re no doubt all on the edge of your seats: WHAT did the Mayo say about the endless blood-pressure conundrum, in the wake of the Affair of the Phantom Heart Attack? Mwa ha ha! Friday morning I...
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Stressed & De-Stressed
Yesterday, then, I got back from the junket to the Mayo for the vaunted stress test along about two in the afternoon, having dawdled at Costco and Target on the way home. What a joke. I think. Passed...
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“Another Beautiful Day in Arizona…”
“…Leave us all enjoy it!” {chortle!} That was the slogan of a long, long-ago governor of Arizona, a classic specimen of the state’s political fauna. The guy had been a radio announcer before he rose to...
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Dredging up the Facts…
Facts are the joy — and the meat — of journalistic writing. Every writer of nonfiction or fiction needs facts: how to get them and how to use them. Come on over to P&S Press for today’s rumination...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons to Open a Bitcoin IRA
If you want to have a diverse retirement portfolio, which means a strong retirement portfolio, then you should consider all types of investment classes. Since 2014, it has been officially allowed to...
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Things That Go Bump in the Night…
Well. Not “bump” so much as “rustle rustle rustle” or “munch munch munch.” It’s three in the morning — what most of us would call the middle of the freaking night — the hour that my internal alarm...
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All I want for Christmas…
…is this: I ask you: is that not to die for? It’s just down the road from our old ranch outside of Yarnell, on 40 deeded acres. The ad doesn’t say anything about lease land, so I assume no BLM land is...
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