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Whatever my WordPress blog host did to combat spam seems to have worked. My spam filter no longer has hundreds of poorly-written requests from bots and scammers. This is a good thing. However, apparently some people aren’t getting the message. I shall explain. A few months ago, I wrote about someone who created a fake…

So I need to relax before my big flight to San Antonio for the upcoming annular solar eclipse. I don’t fly as often as most people, but when I do fly, I do have some great stories – both good and bad. And if I’m going to remain calm about flying … let’s do this…

Imagine that someone you know, someone you’ve worked with, someone in your tertiary universe has just received a Nobel Prize. That’s huge. And of course, you’ll want to trumpet this news as loudly as possible. Heck, my alma mater, Hamilton College, can boast that Elihu Root, who graduated from Hamilton and would later serve as…

Let me check my MAGA Caucus Bingo card. Matt Gaetz … still trolling for underage girls with his Venmo account. Kevin McCarthy – proof that you can anagram the letters S P E N I and it would confirm that he neither has a “spine” nor a … yeah. Lauren Boebert – nope, I don’t…

The original plan was to leave Albany in the morning, drive to Connecticut, and drop off my artworks at the Durham Fair. Then drive home. And then go back to Durham this coming Sunday and see how everything did. Then I saw the weather report. Tropical Storm Lee heading straight for New England, with coastal…

Yesterday, I chronicled Colorado representative Lauren Boebert’s escapade with her companion at a Denver theater. You can read it here, I’m not interested in re-hashing all the dirty deets. Last night, after irrefutable video evidence surfaced that showed Lauren Boebert’s denial of her actions were in fact outright lies, she finally issued a statement taking…

I promised myself I wouldn’t write about Colorado representative Lauren Boebert’s little tirade at a Denver theater. I promised I wouldn’t stoop to the level of showing the security footage of Boebert and her companion being told to leave the Buell Theater as they were watching a performance of the musical version of Beetlejuice. I…

I don’t know that much about Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy – heck, I had to double-check the spelling of his name before I even wrote today’s blog post. But I can tell you that Ramaswamy is a mighty wind coming from an empty cave. His promises on the campaign trail are absolutely bonkers. And…

Remember earlier this year when a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio? Remember the chemical spill and the burning oil cars and all that? Good. Now pay attention to this little tweet by a certain member of Congress. Ah, Marjorie Taylor Greene, stomping her cloven hoof once again to blame Joe Biden for everything. As…