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It’s Saturday night, and I’m feeling a bit peckish. And thirsty. I can solve this with a quick trip to the Speedway gas station nearby. Get a couple of cold diet sodas, maybe some chips, and I’ll be fine. Speedway is currently running their summer “buy three cold drinks, get 10c off gasoline” promotion, and…

I really wish I didn’t have to write this blog post. Seriously. Last December, I blogged that former WRGB news anchor Heather Kovar – who was released from WRGB after a trainwreck broadcast where she appeared disoriented, disheveled, and countering the effects of something that can be measured in “proof” – had found a new…

Long-time readers of my blog know that I have no respect for MAGA chuds. From Donald Trump all the way down, my belief is that these knuckle-draggers are weird, they’re misguided, and they’re as shrill as fingernails on a chalkboard. I also have no respect for MAGA trolls who can’t keep their stories straight. Or…

One of the greatest comedians of my generation was the late George Carlin. And yes, I could quote his most famous routine, the “Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television,” but that’s not where I’m going here. Carlin had a comedy routine where he demonstrated how language can increase or decrease the impact of…

Let me start off by saying, in the annals of fairness, the rumor about Republican Vice-Presidential nominee JD Vance and furniture is false. Untrue. Never happened. See, at some point in time, somebody posted on social media that, in quoting several pages of Vance’s book Hilbilly Elegy, that Vance allegedly turned a latex glove inside…

Four years ago, I blogged about the nomination of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate for the 2020 Presidential campaign. Not so much about her record in politics – but about all the knuckle-dragging racist, sexist, vitriolic horseshit that Republicans tried to throw at her. And not less than three days after President Biden…

Let’s get a few things straight before I dive into the meat of this blog post. Political violence of ANY sort against ANY elected official is not acceptable for any reason. I don’t care if you like Trump or hate him, I don’t care if you like Biden or despise him – no one has…

It’s not that I need three hammers. I really don’t. But my problem was that when I couldn’t find a hammer for a project, I’d go to the hardware store, buy one, come back, use it, put it away – and realize, oh, there’s the hammer I originally owned, now I have a second (or…

Even though I have absolutely no room in my home to set up a model railroad layout, I do have some rolling stock in my possession – it’s MTH’s Canadian Pacific Holiday Train O-gauge railroad set (the locomotive, four box cars and a stage car). I acquired the stage car from a merchant named Pat’s…

You’re not supposed to develop attachments to racehorses in the same way as one develops an attachment to a baseball player or to some other athlete. But over time, I’ve developed rooting interests in various horses at various times. And it’s always for the weirdest reasons. During one season at the Saratoga flat track, I…