The Alien Intervention: A Dream
So this morning I had a really cool dream that’s worth writing down. If I had the time, it would make a nice scifi short story. . . .Suddenly there materializes on the White House lawn a bright-red...
View ArticleWas Netanyahu's Presentation A Hoax?
A few minutes ago Netanyahu gave a 20-minute theatrical powerpoint presentation in which he claimed that Israel had seized more than 110,000 Iranian documents and CDs, the so-called Iranian “Atomic...
View ArticleThe Pennsylvania Report about Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests
I’m almost 64 and a life-long Roman Catholic. I still regularly attend Mass on Sundays. I’ve never known anybody who said he or she was sexually abused by a priest, and I certainly was not myself....
View ArticleA Compelling Argument About Clerical Celibacy
I’m a very long-time Roman Catholic. As I wrote last night, I’m staggered by the recent Pennsylvania Grand Jury report that reports they have identified 300+ Catholic priests who committed child...
View ArticleToday is my 64th Birthday!
Today is my 64th birthday! I have lots of serious health problems. On top of Diabetes 2, and a falling problem, and a terrible gagging/coughing problem (diagnosed as “hyperactive gag reflex”), I’ve...
View ArticleMussels!
I’ve always been squeamish about eating mollusks. I absolutely won’t eat snails, squid, octopus, or oysters. I’ve always loved scallops. But I’ve always been on the fence about mussels,After...
View ArticleKhashoggi's U.S. Immigration Status
It’s been widely reported that Trump has diminished the importance of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by saying he’s not a U.S. citizen. When he said that at a press...
View ArticleWhitaker and Marbury v. Madison
There has been a lot of discussion today as to whether it was lawful for Trump to appoint Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General after Jeff Sessions was fired. I’ve read a lot on that, and I...
View ArticleThe Murderer in Thousand Oaks, CA
The media is engaged in so much head-scratching about why this guy shot up a night club in California. Good grief. I think the answer is obvious. The shooter was a mega loser who did manage to get...
View ArticleTrump v. Roberts
On Tuesday, Trump slammed the 9th Circuit, this time after a judge from the Northern District of California -- where cases get appealed to the 9th Circuit -- issued a temporary restraining order...
View ArticleHome Gyms
I’m 64 with major medical problems. Most alarming is that I’ve fallen several times and couldn’t get up. My wife actually called the local Rescue Squad to get me up one time about six months ago.No...
View ArticleFOX: Trump to show up for SOTU anyway
According to Fox News (I know, I know) Trump has sent a letter to the House Sergeant at Arms demanding a walk-through ahead of his intention to show up next Tuesday for the SOTU, notwithstanding...
View ArticleUPDATED x2 With Odd Request: The Hero of the Christchurch Mosque Massacres
I’ve just read the most amazing story: news.yahoo.com/…The white supremacist killer killed at least 41 at one mosque and went to drive to a second mosque. Inside that second mosque was 48-year-old...
View ArticleHeckboy!
Sometimes something touches your funny bone! This is a great example.The Week magazine is currently my favorite news magazine. Published in Britain, it has a U.S. version. It does incredibly sharp...
View ArticleMueller Report: Proof for Impeachment
So who has actually read the Mueller Report? I’ve read most of the 700+ page version of this from the Washington Post, which I think is the best version. I just read another 200 pages of it!It...
View ArticleUpdated x1: What's up with Judge Emmet Sullivan!!
What’s up with Judge Emmet Sullivan!! As noted in this diary from a few days ago www.dailykos.com/…the DOJ, in perhaps the only time in U.S. history, just filed a notice with the court on Friday...
View ArticleLord Lasix
Have any of you been under the cold and imperious command of Lord Lasix? Lasix is a potent diuretic, also called Furosemide. It’s prescribed for swelling (usually lymphedema).I’ve had to take this...
View ArticleWhere, where is my little dog tonight?
I’ve always been a dog person. My #1 all-time favorite dog is our rescue miniature poodle Max. He’s now about 14. When we picked him up at the rescue shelter in Howard County, MD, he sat in my lap...
View ArticleMueller Hearing: Republicans Fall Into a Trap
Short diary, but sharp. I think the Republicans have overplayed their anti-Mueller hand. They got totally corrupt Republican AG Barr to issue a ridiculous and unprecedented (and illegal, in my...
View ArticleKaddish for my Dog
A few weeks ago I wrote a lugubrious diary about my all-time favorite little dog Max www.dailykos.com/…Well, the worst nightmares came true and after many years and many thousands of dollars of trying...
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