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VP Debate: Pence and Harris
Usually the only point of a VP debate is for the potential or actual Vice-President to show that he (or she this year) can tie his shoes, walk unassisted, and won't immediately collapse into a puddle...
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Judge (Justice) Amy Coney Barrett and Liberal Despair
Judge Amy Coney Barrett moved one step closer to being confirmed as the newest Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. The Democrats on the Judiciary Committee claimed that the entire process was...
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Michigan: Fall Is Here!
Perhaps people in every region or state think that their area is among the most beautiful. And they could all be correct. I haven't lived anywhere except the South and Midwest, specifically Michigan....
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Music Reviews: Anne Laurie: Since I Fell For You
The song Since I Fell For You is a blues/jazz standard written by jump blues pianist Buddy Johnson. I was really only familiar with the Dinah Washington interpretation. I recently ran across an earlier...
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Jeffrey Toobin: When In Doubt Whip It Out!!
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people who can do so are working from home. People keep in touch with co-workers via Zoom or Web-ex meetings, instant messaging, emails, conference calls, and the...
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Puss Caterpillars
If you are outdoors in the woods taking a walk, taking pictures, walking your dog, or just enjoying the briskness of autumn, you might see a small hairy something on a tree, a bush, or the ground that...
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Ice Cube And The Black Male Vote
The rapper, actor, and filmmaker Ice Cube became the subject of a great deal of agita because of his meeting with some people within the Trump Administration regarding Ice Cube's Contract With Black...
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Movie Reviews: Drive A Crooked Road
Drive A Crooked Roaddirected by Richard QuineThis 1954 film noir wasn't super exciting. It was a little predictable all in all. But it did feature a pretty nice piece of acting from Mickey Rooney. The...
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QAnon and Conspiracy Theories
What do you do when people say or believe things that are simply and demonstrably untrue? Do you lose your patience and call them names which question their intelligence, morality, or number of...
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Black Couple Not Allowed At Sushi Restaurant???
I don't know who coined the umbrella term "people of color" to describe, in the American context, people who may not be of clearly European descent. Too often that term is used to suggest that there is...
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2020 Election Prediction
The Presidential election polls were wrong in 2016 because pollsters didn't account for the number of people who disliked Clinton and because pollsters underestimated the number of (especially)...
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Movie Reviews: Graveyard Shift
Graveyard Shiftdirected by Ralph SingletonThis 1990 B-movie was based on another Stephen King short story of the same title which I first read in his excellent collection "Night Shift" though it was...
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Speaking of Rats
Dang. Didn't Stephen King write a story where something similar happened? Yes, he did. At least a few such stories he wrote. Graveyard something or the other..Sometimes relatives or friends ask me to...
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Book Reviews: A Dark History: The Kings and Queens of England
A Dark History: The Kings and Queens of Englandby Brenda Ralph LewisThis coffee table styled hardcover book details the histories of the English Royal Family, or rather the English Royal Families, from...
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Trump Lost: Now What?
Joe Biden won the 2020 United States Presidential Election. There's no question about that. There is only a question by how much of a win Biden will have when all of the certifications are complete. At...
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Book Reviews: Cold Storage
Cold Storageby David KoeppThis story is just under 400 pages. It's by the screenwriter and director David Koepp, among other things the screenwriter for Jurassic Park, whose work was previously...
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Movie Reviews: Unhinged
Unhingeddirected by Derrick BorteI know some people who have the patience of saints. These people never get upset while they are driving. They constantly defer to other drivers, never flip anyone off,...
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Police: Shut Up And Submit!!!
It's a source of cynical amusement, frustration, and anger to me how some Americans think that THOSE people should always immediately and cravenly submit to any and all police demands no matter how...
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Human Steak??!!
Want to get your Jeffrey Dahmer on but are turned off by the work needed, the resulting mess, and those pesky police officers bothering you about missing vagrants? Don't worry. New advances in science...
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Movie Reviews: Underwater
Underwaterdirected by William Eubank This 2020 sci-fi thriller movie is stylish and has a reasonably well known cast. It looks good visually and even has a direct shoutout to one of my favorite and...
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