May 8, 2021
My friend M is still in Cali, Colombia, where there are ongoing protests against the new tax that people there can hardly afford, where the average monthly income a few years ago used to be only $200 ...
May 2, 2021
Last Friday I received my 2nd vaccination, and felt fine until later in the evening. Then suddenly every muscle I owned hurt, even my fingers ached, and I felt sick to my stomach. This lasted until ea...
Apr 25, 2021
This Friday I get my 2nd vaccine shot. The first one was painless, in fact I wondered momentarily if the nurse had just pretended to inject me (can’t imagine why a nurse would want to pretend, but t...
Mar 27, 2021
Keeping up with some Twitter posts for work, I ran across an odd thing a bunch of actors seem to love: A show on Youtube called "Hanging With Dr. Z." It had someone playing the old orangutan from Plan...
Mar 24, 2021
Without getting into my late brother’s health, I wanted to mention a couple of mysteries surrounding his death. One was his computers. When my older brother came to town a few weeks back, he solved ...
Mar 6, 2021
My siblings and I are hoping among my father’s papers are family tree information. For school long ago I had to make a family tree, and my father was very interested and gave me a lot of details on ...
Feb 26, 2021
There are these things you can buy -- but only if you know how to buy them: NFT art and other NFT things. They’re digital and are stored on a blockchain (like Bitcoin is) to make each one unique and...
Feb 19, 2021
It’s been … a conflicted time, lately. My father, whom I broke off contact with many years ago, died, and for some reason arranged to be buried up here although his home was in Alabama. I have to ...
Jan 28, 2021
Apparently I am attending my father’s funeral in a week, after all. I didn’t want to but my sisters and brother are mostly attending and I will get to see my older brother for the first time in ag...
Jan 20, 2021
Donald Trump inspires histrionics and hyperbolic language when you need to talk about him. Most lefty columnists online seem to have fallen into this vein at some point or other. It’s the only way t...
Jan 19, 2021
Dr. Rachel Levine was announced to be a pick for HHS deputy secretary, and I’m happy because now it seems very clear to me that Biden is choosing really talented people. Dr. Levine is from my state ...
Jan 11, 2021
Some items in the news that Mike (who is a voracious and fast reader) told me, that I hadn’t seen at first:Mike Pence’s wife and kids were in the Capitol Building at the time it was breached, and ...
Dec 29, 2020
I read that Trump is hosting a big New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, to which he sells tickets. Ticket prices might be close to $1,000 or something. During this pandemic upsurge. Ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Dec 17, 2020
The winter storm dumped around a foot of snow in a little over 24 hours, so I am quite tired. Normally I’d take a little more time to shovel myself out, but I was scheduled for jury duty for Thursda...
Nov 5, 2020
I worry about what Trump might do to exact revenge, in his last days in office. He already pardoned 1 war criminal some time ago, who might come later?In his last days -- hours, even -- in office, Jim...
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