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Political Platitudes, Sedition and Treachery

The holidays are history, thank goodness, which were painful for many this time around. Due to not being able to gather with family and friends safely in large numbers, resulting from COVID-19 and a variant thereof (into week 43 of … Continue reading

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A Whole Lot About Nothing

Here it is coming into week 23 of my writing about the pandemic. I’ll spare the details, but one way to disperse a crowd of unmasked, non-socially distanced people is to start coughing or sneezing. It’s amazing how fast they … Continue reading

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Lent’s Over: It’s OK for Me to Complain Again

Into Week Five of socially distanced isolation, my normally easy-going temperament has become a bit edgy, lacking in patience for ordinary idiosyncrasies that otherwise are overlooked or tolerated. Back in 2000, I had posted about being housebound for a period … Continue reading

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Today’s Tirade: Come On People Now

“Come on, people, would you please find another adjective besides ‘awesome’ to describe your enthusiasm? Don’t use ‘amazing’ either.” The preceding quotation was a tweet I made out of simple desperation from my having just read Twitter, and noting 105 … Continue reading

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