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It’s Thursday again, and time to post one of my older posts – this one from 5 years ago. What prompted it was reading this article on another forum. I don’t think the root logic has changed. The military, by definition, cannot be a “family friendly employer.” Enjoy. Well, it’s
This past weekend at the commencement ceremonies for Morehouse College, billionaire Robert Smith promised to pay off the student loan debt fully of every student graduating in 2019. When you consider that Morehouse had 396 people graduating. Just for argument’s sake lets assume all of them had student loans, that
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One of the remarkable things of my 8 years here in Europe is how I have become enthralled in the competitions that Americans don’t get to see. For example in 2012, the S.O. and I got deeply into the EURO 2012 football ( soccer) tournament. Same with 2016 – and
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For the sin of not having a ……… wait for it…………..”a landline”. I’ve had one all my adult life and growing up as a boy of the ’60s and ’70s, if you could not use someone’s phone or get to a pay phone, you just were out of communication. Those
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Herman Wouk has passed away at the age of 103, just ten days short of his 104th birthday. According to the Times of Israel, he was “working on a book until the end.” To say this makes me sad is a gross understatement. While obviously, I knew this day was
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Under the idea of changing things up a bit, I have decided to use Thursdays to re-post some of what I think are my better postings over the last 14 years. Plus hopefully, it will bring them to a new set of readers. This is one of my early posts
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It is pretty astounding when you think about it. 243 years of American Democracy have come and gone – and the Republic has withered challenges that it has survived and prospered from. But the thing that most Americans failed to realize was, just how easy it could have been not
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Today is May the 12th, a double anniversary for me. First, it is Mother’s Day and thus a poignant reminder to me that my mother has been gone for almost 11 years now. When she was with us, I was not near the son I could have or should have
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The other day, I had to the misfortune to read on another corner of the interwebs, the following bit of incredible stupidity. Referring to this article, describing Trump’s blatant abuse of executive power by claiming Executive Privilege on the entire Mueller report, the asshole in question had this to say:
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Not the 1% that controls 60% of the world’s wealth. Not by a long shot. I’m just a poor man struggling to survive in spite of America’s cruel and vindictive divorce laws. But I am what appears to be that 1% of the Netflix and HBO watching population that has
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