Michael Rosenbaum
@dadwrites.bsky.social
Fearlessly creating a safe space for common sense and humor on the internet. Start-up mentor, award-winning author, blogging at www.dadwrites.com, definitely a work in progress. I follow and reply to interesting people, while avoiding parrots and sheep.
Yes, absolutely guaranteed financial returns. What could possibly go wrong?
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Yes, we're offering guaranteed financial returns
As the stock market struggles to get even more overvalued and the government decides it’s a great idea to buy in at the top, it’s time, once again, for the financial geniuses at Dad Writes to...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Yes, absolutely guaranteed financial returns. What could possibly go wrong?
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Right wingers must not have liked Charlie Kirk. None of them is sending any thoughts and prayers.
September 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Right wingers must not have liked Charlie Kirk. None of them is sending any thoughts and prayers.
Has anyone in the media published any kind of estimate for crowd size at the Trump parade? Lots of stories saying it was below 200k or sparse, or whatever, but I cannot find an actual crowd size estimate like we ALWAYS see. WTF is going on?
June 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Has anyone in the media published any kind of estimate for crowd size at the Trump parade? Lots of stories saying it was below 200k or sparse, or whatever, but I cannot find an actual crowd size estimate like we ALWAYS see. WTF is going on?
More Father's Day musings: Why is it Father’s Day and not Dad’s Day? I don’t know anyone who walks in the door and yells, “Father, I’m home.” “Dad” is so much friendlier and warm, although I’d stop there. “Daddy” would just seem to cross a line or two. Or three.
June 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
More Father's Day musings: Why is it Father’s Day and not Dad’s Day? I don’t know anyone who walks in the door and yells, “Father, I’m home.” “Dad” is so much friendlier and warm, although I’d stop there. “Daddy” would just seem to cross a line or two. Or three.
Father's Day puzzle: What to buy a WFH dad? No ties, and he already has a “#1 Dad” coffee cup…I see why people pass along gift cards like last year’s fruitcake. WFH is great, though. No fights on the day after FD when two guys show up with identical “World’s Best Dad” coffee cups.
June 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Father's Day puzzle: What to buy a WFH dad? No ties, and he already has a “#1 Dad” coffee cup…I see why people pass along gift cards like last year’s fruitcake. WFH is great, though. No fights on the day after FD when two guys show up with identical “World’s Best Dad” coffee cups.
Another Father's Day question: Does anyone hire a physical trainer to help them get a dad bod? Can a dad bod ever be a turn-on, even if it’s only to women who are tired of grandfather bods?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
June 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Another Father's Day question: Does anyone hire a physical trainer to help them get a dad bod? Can a dad bod ever be a turn-on, even if it’s only to women who are tired of grandfather bods?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
If dad spends Sunday morning playing golf and then he takes a nap while mom makes dinner, how will he know it’s Father’s Day?
June 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If dad spends Sunday morning playing golf and then he takes a nap while mom makes dinner, how will he know it’s Father’s Day?
This will not end well, and my right-wing Jewish friends will be the most surprised by the obvious.
As Trumpsters claim they really truly care about antisemitism, note the new Pentagon press secretary. jewishinsider.com/2025/05/king...
Pentagon promotes Kingsley Wilson to press secretary despite history of antisemitic comments
In social media posts, Wilson promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories, including one about the Anti-Defamation League’s founding
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May 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This will not end well, and my right-wing Jewish friends will be the most surprised by the obvious.
The honored dead that nobody mourns this holiday...
We can't remember their sacrifice
The flash of white pulled me away from the conversation as I refocused on the rows of crosses along the countryside. The uniformity and precise alignment of the memorials announced a military...
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May 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The honored dead that nobody mourns this holiday...
Eggs just have more rizz than potatoes, I guess...
Exactly who came up with that idea?
The real innovators, my favorite barfly, and the hidden sex appeal of eggs are all haunting me this week. They can be haunting you, too, if you read on… O’ PIONEERS! Every so often, I wonder...
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May 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Eggs just have more rizz than potatoes, I guess...
When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis, and that's the goal for the people creating the real chaos.
Wake me when it's a crisis crisis
I’m cleaning out some old emails and there’s a note from a guy about getting out of New Orleans the day before the terrorist attack. Huh? Oh, yeah, there was a terrorist attack—some guy ramming...
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May 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis, and that's the goal for the people creating the real chaos.
Happy Mothers Day, known in literary circles as the Day of Confused Apostrophes. Is it for all mothers, so it's Mothers’ Day, or for individual mothers, as in Mother’s Day? It it's only for happy mothers, it's Happy-Mothers Day? Or maybe nobody owns it, so it's just Mothers Day. I'm so confused.
May 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happy Mothers Day, known in literary circles as the Day of Confused Apostrophes. Is it for all mothers, so it's Mothers’ Day, or for individual mothers, as in Mother’s Day? It it's only for happy mothers, it's Happy-Mothers Day? Or maybe nobody owns it, so it's just Mothers Day. I'm so confused.
I want to run a federal agency, so I'm applying for a job at Fox News.
May 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I want to run a federal agency, so I'm applying for a job at Fox News.
When I'm drinking bourbon and telling you it's sobriety...
Lincoln and Twain had the right idea
There’s an old story about Abe Lincoln asking an audience how many legs a dog would have it you called a tail a leg. The audience said five, but he reminded them it was still four, because calling...
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May 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
When I'm drinking bourbon and telling you it's sobriety...
It's already too late, but we're still acting as if there's time on the clock.
We've burned the ships and cannot return
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the most fragile and irreparable thing in this world: Trust. People sometimes talk about rebuilding it after a breach, but there’s a major bit of...
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April 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's already too late, but we're still acting as if there's time on the clock.
With all the news stories about Trump backing down after backlash from Wall Street, you'd think nobody predicted this, except...
You'll never guess who's going to save us
Looking across the blighted landscape of our Republic, it’s impossible to ignore the shattered guard rails and demolished institutions that, not so long ago, hummed very softly as they completed...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
With all the news stories about Trump backing down after backlash from Wall Street, you'd think nobody predicted this, except...
When does Vance visit the White House next? Asking for a friend.
April 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When does Vance visit the White House next? Asking for a friend.
Only the C students can save us now.
People who don't need people are...
Add this one to the list of things that were always true and, somehow, turned upside down. We’re already seeing the damage, but I haven’t seen much awareness of the cause. Historically, the world...
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April 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Only the C students can save us now.
What could possibly go wrong?
"Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round."
"Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round."
Federal Workers Jump at Buyout Offers They Once Shunned
(Bloomberg) -- Federal workers who scoffed when they first received Elon Musk’s infamous “Fork in the Road” buyout initiative are taking different tack now that there is a second offer on the table: s...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
"Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round."
"Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round."
It's invisible, liberals hate it, and it's probably the only thing that's going to save us.
You'll never guess who's going to save us
Looking across the blighted landscape of our Republic, it’s impossible to ignore the shattered guard rails and demolished institutions that, not so long ago, hummed very softly as they completed...
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April 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's invisible, liberals hate it, and it's probably the only thing that's going to save us.
Washington is closer than people think. Post Offices, Social Security offices and VA hospitals close, cancer screening and after-school programs end, and suddenly we appreciate the pork-barrel projects we all love to hate. We’re all getting a lesson in civics, the hard way.
April 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Washington is closer than people think. Post Offices, Social Security offices and VA hospitals close, cancer screening and after-school programs end, and suddenly we appreciate the pork-barrel projects we all love to hate. We’re all getting a lesson in civics, the hard way.
We expect tons of bravery from other people as Trump rains vengeance on his enemies. Whether it’s Columbia or Paul Weiss or the bureaucrat who gets doxed by DOGE, we expect them to fight to the death. The rest of us gave in and we’re bagging our own groceries, but Trump targets must be superheroes.
April 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We expect tons of bravery from other people as Trump rains vengeance on his enemies. Whether it’s Columbia or Paul Weiss or the bureaucrat who gets doxed by DOGE, we expect them to fight to the death. The rest of us gave in and we’re bagging our own groceries, but Trump targets must be superheroes.
Please stop saying we did this to ourselves. WE didn't do this. Trump did this. And while millions voted for him, he received less than half the total votes cast.
April 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Please stop saying we did this to ourselves. WE didn't do this. Trump did this. And while millions voted for him, he received less than half the total votes cast.