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Democratic Debate: The Knives Come Out For Bernie
I didn't have the time or the energy to watch all of the televised recent South Carolina Democratic debate. My Day Job Boss has made it clear that it would be in my interest to arrive to work earlier....
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Oakland: Rental Criminal Background Checks Now Illegal!
It is my belief and often state or federal law that it's wrong to mistreat someone for an immutable characteristic. Refusing to hire or rent to someone because of race or religion is wrong. Assuming a...
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Movie Reviews: Midway (2019)
Midwaydirected by Roland EmmerichThis isn't a remake of the 1976 film but a new take on the famous and iconic WW2 1942 battle between the United States and Japan. The Battle of Midway was a turning...
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Book Reviews: Dark Crusade, Darkness Weaves
Dark Crusade and Darkness Weavesby Karl Edward WagnerThe late Karl Edward Wagner was an author, editor, publisher, poet and graphic novelist who originally trained as a psychiatrist. Wagner wrote...
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Chris Matthews: Sexual Harassment??
Sexual harassment often involves unwanted sexual comments or touching. There are other definitions and other things involved but those are two of the more obvious and common components. At one extreme,...
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Super Tuesday Is Underway!
Today is Super Tuesday , in which about one-third of the total Democratic delegates will be awarded. After Super Tuesday is completed, about 40% of the total delegates will have been awarded. There...
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Detroit Elementary School Wins Chess State Championship
A downtown Detroit elementary school has recently won a chess state championship. Again. I think that this must be surprising to those who believe that all Detroit public schools are blasted wastelands...
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Movie Reviews: 21 Bridges
21 Bridgesdirected by Brian KirkThis is a action/thriller that makes a few nods towards neo-noir. Ultimately it's a little hampered by not having a true femme fatale.But the lead actor's slow burn...
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Movie Reviews: Only
Onlydirected by Takashi DoscherThis film works the same side of the street as works like Stephen and Owen King's book Sleeping Beauties, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, or the films Children of...
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Sanders and Biden Debate
"Last of all Bernie stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Clinton until it withered, and...
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America and the Covid-19 Coronavirus
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes not. People act like they can't simultaneously hold two true ideas in their head. This latest coronavirus apparently began in China thanks in part to...
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Fox News's first political instinct regarding the Coronavirus was to dismiss it all as overreaction and a Democratic hoax to take down the President. I work with a few devout Fox News viewers. It was...
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Movie Reviews: Thinner
Thinnerdirected by Tom HollandAlthough many of the films adapted from Stephen King's works have not worked out that well, until recently anyway, this film, adapted from the short story of the same...
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Illinois Coronaracist Police
It's depressing and ironic to me but perhaps heartening and morale boosting to others to know that at least some police won't let the COVID-19 pandemic interfere with what appears to be their prime...
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Movie Reviews: International Falls
International Fallsdirected by Amber McGinnisThis is an indie film directed by first time director Amber McGinnis. It's based on a two person play but McGinnis transcends those limitations. It doesn't...
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Home Invasions: In For A Penny In For A Pound
The thing about most criminals is that they are cowards. They pick on people whom, in the criminal's estimation, can't or won't fight back. They attack people when they think they outnumber their would...
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Coronavirus Becomes Real
I remember that when I first heard about the coronavirus, I was vaguely distressed and irritated that yet another disease had arisen in China and started to spread. But I believed and hoped it wouldn't...
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William Rufus: The Scarlet King
In the book series A Song of Ice and Fire and its televised adaptation HBO's "Game of Thrones" the King of the Seven Kingdoms, Robert Baratheon, has a fatal hunting accident which is rather ineptly...
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Book Reviews: Dave vs. The Monsters: Emergence
Dave vs The Monsters: Emergenceby John BirminghamThe most important thing in the first book of a series is that the reader is intrigued enough to read the second book in the series. I suppose that's...
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