Every so often, I’ll go through the spam filter on this blog to make sure nothing that was a REAL comment gets caught in the filter. It happens once in a while, I unspam the comment, it gets posted, all is well with the world. However, on occasion I will read what these spambots are…
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The Debut of Girl Gone Smart
Normally I would save news like this for Saturday’s “7 and 7” blogroll recap. Yeah… this is too good to keep silent until Saturday. Heather Fazio is a good friend of mine. She’s a great writer, an astute blogger, and she speaks her mind no matter what the consequences. I can dig that. The problem…
Read MoreIs truth truth?
Yesterday on Meet the Press, President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph Giuliani postulated, in an interview with MTP host Chuck Todd, that Donald Trump would have problems sitting for an interview with the Special Counsel because what Trump might say under oath would in fact be different than the facts of the event. In other words, he…
Read MoreForty items for the Treasure Chest – and you can contribute, too!
Several of my Facebook friends have shared a picture from an upcoming charity project. The picture works as such – instead of giving up some pleasurable item for Lent, like sweets or the like … do something charitable that will help others. So I decided to join the project … and am doing my own…
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The new possible Boreas Ponds tract plan…
For the past two years, I’ve visited the breathtaking Boreas Ponds in the Adirondack Mountains. I’ve hiked the 3 1/2 miles from the Gulf Brook Road parking through the old logging roads, past the LaBier Flow, through more logging roads and old hunting cabins … and then I see it. That amazing view of the…
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Hello Chuckthewriter.blog!
Well, this is a new experience… Last year, when I exited the Times Union’s blogfarm, I created my own personal blog stand through WordPress.com. It was hastily crafted and I’m lucky I even got as far as I did with my limited coding skills. This is what happens when Big Hearst says to you, “Don’t…
Read MoreDonald Trump and latrine politics
This is not normal. Not by any circumstances. But the fact that national newscasters are quoting President Trump’s comments that describe the nation of Haiti and African nations, and quoting him as saying they are “shithole nations” – ugh. Let’s make this clear. We should not be at the point where I have to hear…
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Chuck’s Best Blog Moments of 2017
Well, wasn’t THIS an interesting year? With new directions and new achievements and new everything, 2017 was a year for my blog like none before. So let’s recap ten moments – great and challenging – from this year in blogging, shall we? And let’s start with…
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He picked for small crumbs on Christmas Day…
The snow came down in big, clumpy, freezing torrents. Christmas morning. And he was outside, with no home, no family, no gifts, no compassion, no nothing. He looked around. Christmas was everywhere … festive lights strung on house porches, loads of parked cars in front of family dwellings, the sounds of children laughing and cheering,…
Read MoreRingo Starr does NOT support Roy Moore’s campaign
Every time I think that people can’t be any stupider … nature proves me wrong. And when I find out that part of the nature involves the word “Breitbart” – well, you tell me. Yesterday, Breitbart editor Joel Pollak was interviewed by CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the Alabama senatorial campaign between Democratic nominee Doug Jones…
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