Friday, January 31, 2025

January 2025

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January 2025   It is January. It has always been January. It will always be January.   Now is the January of our discontent. M...
Monday, January 20, 2025

What I Plan to Do with My Next Four Years

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I have very few illusions about how the next four years are going to go. As a nation we are recklessly plunging towards disaster. I hope I...
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Friday, December 20, 2024

Farewell, 2024

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Normally I put together a little year-end poem for my final out-of-office message at work. This year all I could muster up for 2024 was a ha...
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Sunday, November 10, 2024

Mood Melancholy - November 2024

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 It's been a rough 12 months for me and Monique, full of disease and death and setbacks and sorrow. We are ground down. Tuesday's el...
Monday, September 23, 2024

The Revised Patioboater Guide to the 2024 Presidential Election

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Up is down! Down is up! Higgledy Piggledy all around! Like a lot of folks, I'm relieved that Biden decided to step down after all. I sus...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

The Patioboater Guide to the 2024 Presidential Election

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Honestly, do any of you need or want any guidance for the 2024 election? Anybody?  These two guys have been around on the public scene for a...
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Friday, December 30, 2022

I watched (almost) 40 Hallmark Holiday Movies in 2022

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Let's get this confession out of the way: I like predictable entertainment.  For one thing, it's comfortable, especially at the end ...