Category: Politics 2022
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My brain tumor and a lesson on what a great hospital system can mean
So I’ve been sick. Not just a little sick. I mean, tumor on the brain sick. It’s amounted to a crazy week for me, which started on Monday during a walk. I was having trouble walking in a straight line. I couldn’t compensate for my left leg so while climbing an embankment to get on…
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Election 2022 post mortem
I went into the voting booth on Tuesday wondering if this was going to be the last free and fair election that I would ever participate in. It was a reasonable question given that our Supreme Court is taking up a case this year to decide if states can overrule voters in assigning their electoral…
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Republicans will excuse any behavior by Trump
Sorry for a late post. I was at a family reunion which took place near Asheville, North Carolina. I enjoyed my extended family (all but the youngest brother made it) for five days at a rental house east of Asheville. We kept busy with chatting, eating and doing touristy stuff. It’s an area I hadn’t…
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My plan for reparations
I’ve never been a slaveholder, so surely I don’t owe anything to those who were descendants of slaveholders. Or so I thought until the genealogists in my family (principally my sister in law Patty) went to work researching family history. As best we can tell, my family was first established in the United States by…
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Anthony Fauci is a modern American hero
As a former civil servant, I didn’t get much respect. Most civil servants don’t because rarely is the work that we do of note or of interest to those who don’t work closely with us. All civil servants though take an oath that we will support and defend the constitution of the United States. Occasionally…
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Don’t bet on Russia in Ukraine
So parts of eastern Ukraine now belong to Russia, forever, or so Vladimir Putin tells us. Nice expanded country you have there, Russia. Now let’s see if you can keep it. It’s perfectly okay for these new areas to be part of Russia though because the citizens there voted to join. Of course, about two…
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DeSantis is not owning the libs here in Massachusetts
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is busy “owning the libs” by sending about fifty of them by plane recently to Martha’s Vineyard, here in Massachusetts. It turned out though that he didn’t have any ready “illegal immigrants” in his state, given it’s kind of hard for them to take a boat to Florida, so he imported…
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Should I care that Queen Elizabeth II is dead?
The United Kingdom’s longest serving monarch finally passed away last week at the age of 96, completing seventy years on the throne. Even recent gains by Ukraine recapturing territory often seems below the fold to the story of the queen’s death and her son’s ascension. Even though I’m 65, she was the only English monarch…
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Trump, the “gift” that keeps on giving
I’m starting to root for Donald Trump for 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee. I don’t actually want him to be president again, unsurprisingly. And I admit just as he surprised us in 2016 by actually winning the Electoral College, he might do so again in 2024. But I suspect that any other Republican nominee would…
Occam's Razor 