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September 8, 2025 Enter Stage Right: The Demolition Crew.

George Washington in a whimsical mood I know, the events in these next few posts took place in the spring but it’s hard to keep up, y’know. The current administration loves living in the middle of chaos. It gives him the feeling he is a puppeteer and everyone around him look to him for direction. Except there is no direction, just more ‘oh look over there, those perverted Democrats are up…

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The First 100 Days? Give your Head a Shake.

It’s all a bit hard to watch the current “never have I ever” when in during first term of the Dear Leader he held an open cabinet meeting where every newly appointed cabinet secretary spent their speaking time praising and thanking Mr. President for allowing them time in his divine presence. Oh, and there was his repeated musings on why the 4th of July or presidents day or Dear Leader’s Birthday…

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Playing catch-up: Inaugural review

.  The gaps in this journal seem to be getting longer and longer. It’s partly a sense of ennui from the shouting and alarms every day in the country formerly advertised as the birthplace of democracy Okay, ennui is not the right word. It implies an indifference and disinterest when it is more accurately a disbelief in the situation, an inability to comprehend how this loose canon and associates…

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The Good old Days…

Mention of plague and Black Death immediately conjures up replays of Monty Python and a chorus of ‘Bring out yer dead’. Visions of deep stinking pits where the victims of plague are tossed in by family members without so much as a look back. The stench of death, the cries of the dying, villages empty, streets silent except for the constant ringing of church bells calling the remaining people to…

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March 18 We’ve only Just Begun…

With the world focused on tariffs and a fine display of playground diplomacy there were a few moments of some folk questioning the chevauchée approach to reforming the civil service. The chain saw approach to personnel management was not obvious until the man leading the charge appeared with an actual chain saw in one hand and a pocket full of thumb drives bursting with the personal information…

March 18 We’ve only Just Begun…

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March 3, 2025 Let March Madness begin

Time to put away the compilation of doomscrolling latest hits…anyone remember ‘K-Tel’ records? Hello? Anyone? Okay, gather ‘round boys and girls and hear the tale of of the birth of “But wait, there’s more” and SNL Legend Dan Ackroyd’s iconic Irwin Mainway, Bass O’Matic and 4 records of the in my closet stash with psychedelic covers proclaiming all hits of ‘60’s, 70’s – all hits, no ‘b’sides and…

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March 1, 2023 Wear a Leek, Make Some Soup, Repel a Saxon

Just taking a break from banging my head against the nearest wall. Let’s look at a grand tradition from a wonderful part of the world – how I’d love to be in Wales right now. Today is St. David’s Day. Traditionally Welsh people around the western world wear a leek—yes, the veggie that looks like a green onion with a pituitary tumour. I’m not sure if the tradition is still followed or if it’s…

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Feb 26, 2025 Time to Pick up the Pace

It is so hard to keep up with the crazy the Commodus in Chief is cranking out. Every day something new comes on the news to top the previous standard of outrage. One day he issued a variety of social media posts proclaiming himself king. He’d issued a social media post proclaiming he’d struck down traffic rates imposed by New York City. This brag about exerting power over a jurisdiction where he…

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February 19 A New Hat for a New World

Week 4 – where to begin? It’s been an ongoing series of ‘oh look over there’ and complete batshit crazy decrees from HRH Don R to baffle onlookers and leave the rest of the world gob smacked with terror. It isn’t funny anymore. Well, okay, there is an urge to laugh at the dissonance of some of the actions. In one stroke the reigning monarch of the USA declares broad tariffs on steel and…

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DT Commodus; Season 2: Chaos Restored

A Brief (yeah, okay, not so brief) Review Week 1 was spent walking around in a freshly concussed state of trying to remember the day and location. The question of ‘how many fingers am I holding?” replaced by what’s the current number of executive orders he’s issued today. It was impossible to keep track of the blizzard of paper flying out onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Technically, an audit should…

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January 28/25 Ginger or Snickerdoodle?

I spent the day baking cookies, catching up on Will Trent and noodling on my guitar.  Apparently I missed a bit of a circus from the big noise down south but I always find comfort in food and history.  Or, in this case, how our current tumult will go down in the historical record. Pause for a moment and consider how future generations will view the first quarter of the 21st Century. More…

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Dec 4/24 No need to rush, where ever you go the line up got there first.

A sense of normalcy is settling in. Flu season is starting up but so far no signs of serious effect – then again, I swim in the shallow end of the grey panther pool. We’re the ones driving with the perpetual turn signal; parking grocery carts in the middle of any aisle while investigating the ingredients of a granola bar and paying with startling amounts of change—shaken out of a well used…

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Nov 22, 2024 Trading One Plague for Another

The current nominee for dismantling the health system in the US is a strong voice for reducing the use of unnecessary additives in food. One of the plans is to cut back on sugar in the general food supply with a focus on the complete removal of all sweetie temptations directed at children. Outlawing gummy bears is one of the proposals. This fairly reasonable sounding proposal – after all there…

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Nov 15/24 Take a Breath Now

Each day becomes more of a challenge. I’m really trying to avoid the topic of the day for a couple of reasons. Firstly, this journal/blog/whatever you want to call it is supposed to be about the overlap of politics with CoVid – sometimes a little more one than the other. Secondly, in the deep days of the Trump/Vid intersection, I made it a practice to shut off the political podcasts and…

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Nov 8, 2024 Gobsmacked

With a smidge of PTSD. The world is in denial right now as the eponymous figure for this blog has actually managed a comeback of tragic proportions. It has taken a few days to be able to actually mention it out loud – the shock has been deep and pervasive with the texture of cold sick. The recovery process will be a long one. Few current, tentative discussion of ‘the result’ include the felon…

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November 2, 2024 Covid is still here but 7 Million People have exited through the COVID Gift Shop.

Or 14 million if you go by excess mortality (for 20/21) . The only errror factor is from countries that don’t keep/publish accurate death statistics. As the circus continues each year’s grim plague total will be added. The odd thing is there are more vaccine deniers now than ever before. It may be difficult to determine numbers of Covid anti-vaxxers (the claims of mind control, genetic…

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