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Leaving Your Mark
Everybody likes to leave their mark. Some people are just more crude and tawdry than others in their creations. Then there is always hitting your mark, or taking your mark. On your mark, get set, g…
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December 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The Golden Years
When some people get old and retire, they move to nicer climates, away from the snows of winter. Santa Claus is spending his old age at the North Pole where his elves slave away all year making toy…
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December 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Corrugation
It makes for a stronger cardboard wall. I suppose if you drew a picture it would look like a waveform between two lines. If human nature was a pulse, good being the trough of the line, that energy …
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December 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Diamonds In The Sky
“Lucy in the sky with diamonds” — The Beatles But why is Lucy in disguise? I get the diamond part.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The New Year
“Peace on Earth, good will toward men!” — Luke 2:14 Of course this is the King James Version, and he did not care for witches and women were still chattel. The verse was the angel…
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December 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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El Presedente Loco
¿El Presedente loco o un pais loco? There are a whole bunch of people supporting the mad president, in fact the system itself seems to be doing it. That’s crazy!
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December 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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P.B.J.
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich, what I have learned since Nov. 9th, 2016. The system will not protect you while making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My addiction to junk food has to be …
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December 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Old Dogs
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”
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December 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Bedtime For Bonzo
It’s the same shtick with Christmas Trees. How very Christian of him.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Character Assassination
Us common folks have to settle for gossip and innuendo as the rich and the powerful who are in charge have built their castle keeps of law and order to make it illegal to get at them. We fall under…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Be Insubordinate
The United States of America was founded on insubordination. If that is too much work, run away!
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December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I Was Just Following Orders
When we as a nation grow up, face our demons, will we use the I-was-just-following-orders defense or will we go with the more enlightened realization that we just bowed to peer pressure? Our core p…
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December 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Frozen In The Headlights
It took about a quarter of a millenium for the dream to shift to a nightmare. Over seventy-seven million people were blinded by the city lights. Currier & Ives “When you are a star, they …
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December 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Privileges
“I never had the privilege to go to the island.” — Donald J. Trump First of all, Donald J. Trump is a take home kind of privilege kind of a guy. At the time, his home was New York…
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December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Hyperbole
“Students will be taught to love America.”– Steven Miller If I remember correctly, we were taught that America was the best in grade school, K-12, look what happened. We were defr…
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December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Straws
How many straws does it take to break a camel’s back? Bactrian or dromedary?
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December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Poetry School
This is one of the poems that stuck with me from poetry school. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner By Randall Jarrell From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly …
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December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The Cult Compound
If we were to hold up Donald J. Trump as the leader of the the Shining City On The Hill, the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council would not pause the Vogon Constructor Fleet for one second. I am so…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The Game’s Not Over
The game’s not over until the last vampire is staked, their heads are cut off, mouths stuffed with garlic and sewn shut, they are burned to ashes and the ashes scattered into a sunrise. It is…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Artifacts
The last Buffalo Nickels were made in 1938, so they have been floating around for at least 87 years. I found this one in a catch of spare change that had fallen from somebody’s truck onto the…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Inquiring Minds
We all learned what happened to Louis XVI . . . he was executed by guillotine. But it crossed my mind this evening, how was he taken into custody? He was The State, the law and the army protected h…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM