What do you have against Ford? He was hardly an extremist. He always struck me as the most moderate President we had between Eisenhower and...
The single strongest motivating factor known to human nature is not hunger, nor thirst, nor sex, nor even the need to breathe. It is backlash:...
Right. Gavin Newsom is trying to save people's lives, and he's a dictator. Somebody else is bullying him into putting profits ahead of lives (or...
What do you mean, "sometimes"? And he's not facing "obstacles"; he's being bullied by those who put profits ahead of lives. I'd make a comment...
My father and I were recently inducted into the fellowship of those who had lost relatives to COVID-19. Not anyone we'd ever actually met (nor in...
If we were facing the Spanish Flu today, it would be relatively trivial. If we had faced COVID-19 a century ago, there wouldn't have been enough...
"Consider yourself hugged" has become a minor catch-phrase with me. And actually, "they" should have started (in January!) with a 3-day closure...
They have tried changing the wording. It didn't stick. And I was informed that my father and I have a relative (one neither of us knew) who died...
Damn straight! <censored>-A. Just because I'm tired of this whole mess doesn't mean I'm about to run out without my mask, or work at the Museum...
The only thing I ever liked about watching election coverage on television was the theme, "Salute to the President," that Henry Mancini wrote for...
At the height of Barney the Dinosaur's popularity, if anybody came up to me, talking about "Barney," I'd always ask, "Barney who? Barney Rubble?...
Reminds me of an episode of Barney Miller. "You Dirty Rat." Ripped from the headlines about "Marty the Marijuana Mouse," the 12th Precinct has a...
It was not that many years after her death that the "general" adult skating class at the long-gone Costa Mesa Ice Chalet did a group ice show...
While those who own the rights were extremely generous with how long we were permitted to keep the recital up, it is now down. It may conceivably...
I was just in the local grocery, picking up a turkey-cheddar Lunchable and a shallot. And as I was approaching the checkstands, I heard something...
The Long Beach Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is presenting Sebastian Heindl in a free online organ recital, on YouTube. On the...
Well, like the game of Fizzbin, (as Captain Kirk would say), "It requires intelligence."
He's still infected. Along with a whole lot of other people he's come in contact with. Ever notice that the people who've been running the...
I wish I could say I didn't know those words, but I do. In English, German, Yiddish, dog-German/dog-Yiddish, and Quenya. (Which is to say, I can...
It looks like a particularly nasty bit of RNA wrapped in a shell of proteins and lipids may do what Congress didn't. It strikes me as poetic...
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