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I hate that people are equating getting vaccinated against a killer virus with some sort of mass discrimination. And I hate that people are taking that self-styled discrimination to an obscene conclusion. But if you’re going to be a racist, anti-Semitic clown with your business, then by all means, please be willing to accept your…

Even casual readers of my blog know that my disdain for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) is palpable. Her consistent and vulgar attacks on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and others have been documented, as has MTG’s wild and unbridled prejudice and hatred. Her recent comments in which she equates vaccinations to the Jewish Holocaust is…

All right, blog readers, gather around. The recent announcement from the Centers for Disease Control about new mask requirements has been announced. Fully vaccinated people can attend outdoor events (and some indoor events) without requiring a mask. And some businesses, including Walmart, Trader Joe’s and Starbucks, are allowing their fully vaccinated employees to operate maskless.…

Clout-chasing is a term in which someone tries to build their reputation by engaging someone famous in a confrontation or an argument, in the hopes that such interaction will build their own personal brand. For instance, let’s say unknown rapper MC Dumpy Drawrz starts releasing diss tracks about Jay-Z, in the hopes that Jay-Z will…

I know why she penned this tweet. It wasn’t so much about celebrating mothers as it was about denigrating men and denigrating trans people. First off, the whole “birthing person” rubric came because Rep. Cori Bush (D-MD) testified about the potential loss of two of her children during painful births, in that doctors apparently did…

Stewart’s shops are part of our Capital District culture. Philadelphians have their Wawa stores, but everybody knows Stewart’s is superior. Well, technically, if you’re from up here, it’s not truly “Stewart’s.” It’s “Storts.” Pronounced as one six-letter word. Stewart’s offers a series of beverage “refreshers,” 20-ounce plastic bottles of milk and teas and the like.…

You know what today is? Yes, it’s Cinco de Mayo. 5th of May. Mexican Independence Day, let’s all drink beer and wear sombreros! No. Wrong. Stop. Ugh. First off, how many times have holidays been corrupted into excuses to drink? St. Patrick’s Day, I’m looking right at you. Yeah, you too, New Year’s Eve. The…

Yesterday, just because everyone should do this at least once a year, I went to my Facebook blocked list and looked it over. I currently have 21 people blocked on Facebook. Blocked in that they can’t contact me, can’t see what I write, and can’t hassle me. How long will they remain blocked? For as…

Last year, I wrote a blog post about finding this little treasure, a bottle of Star Wars: The Mandalorian hand sanitizer. Which I thought was kind of cute. I mean, you get your hands clean, and you’ve got the cute little image of Grogu / The Child / Baby Yoda on the package. That was,…

Follow along with me. It’s April 2017, and the Times Union and I just had our major schism. As I left, I requested my archives, so that I could import them into a new chuckthewriter.blog portal. They eventually sent the archives to me. And I uploaded the archives to the new blog portal. And the…