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It has been a year since the unwarranted and thoroughly evil insurrection against the Capitol occurred. “A mob breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol. American flags on poles being used as weapons, as spears. Fire extinguishers being thrown at the heads of police officers. A crowd that professes
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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a festive holiday season, well, at least as joyful as one could be in the shadow of the continuing disaster that is COVID and the unacceptable US response to it. Just a reminder of a couple of current facts: Even if Omicron is
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When I lived in Europe and had a British TV service ( which had far better programming than my American counterpart), I enjoyed the day after Christmas. In Britain and many parts of the Commonwealth, Boxing Day was initially an additional holiday in the Christmas tide meant to give gifts
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2021 is refusing to be a decent year, it seems, what with now the omicron surge of the COVID virus and the determined refusal of so many people to take public health measures seriously. It’s a shame that so many people are having to deal with this at a time
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It’s been some week, hasn’t it? What with omicron showing up in the US, Japan banning all travel for foreigners – something I happen to agree with – the Supreme Court poised to strike down Roe v Wade and lest we forget, another senseless school shooting, it’s been a depressing
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I spent yesterday working on the site after we experienced a Denial of Service attack on Wednesday and Thursday. I’ve pretty well isolated where I think it came from and have taken proactive steps “under the hood” to keep it from happening again. Nevertheless, I am flattered that my modest
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Without a doubt, the last few months have been depressing, to say the least. First came the Delta resurgence, which hit many places – even ones that were here to fore considered “safe.” Then, it was made worse in states like Florida and Texas, where their governments just turned a
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One of the things that led me away from the Republican party forever was its descent into madness – punctuated by a fiendish adaptation of cruelty and selfishness. What I could not abide, as one who actually has made a study of economics, is the way they blithely dismissed the
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Some people say they love New York. Not me. My three favorite cities are all in Asia: Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Sadly, Hong Kong is being slowly destroyed by Carrie Lam and Xi Jin Shit for Brains. But as I proved this month – Tokyo survives! And it’s still
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I have not posted in over a month because I was away from home and back on the sacred soil of Japan. It was nice to return to Nihon, especially since I had not been there in over three years. However, travel to Japan in this new world of COVID
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