As a general rule in a democracy, if there is one politician who wants to make it easier to vote and one who wants to make it harder to vote, vote for the one that wants to make it easier. It’s really a no brainer. The whole point of democracy is rule by the people….
There’s an article on NPR, ‘Segregated facilities’ are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts : Shots – Health News : NPR. It says what you’d expect from the headline. Trump signed an executive order rescinding a Lyndon Johnson executive order from 1965. The specific clause that was revoked says, “The Contractor agrees that it…
As of today, I am officially 50 years old. For the first time in my life, I’m feeling some kind of way about my birthday. Mind you, I don’t really know what that way is, but I’m feeling it. 50 is just such a crazy number. I’m not bothered by it exactly. As my dad…
Last year was my first year working full-time as a writer. I worked freelance for CT News Junkie and for the New Haven Independent, so I did alot of writing. But how much is “alot”? Fortunately, I’ve had to maintain a spreadsheet of all the articles I wrote for News Junkie. According to that tally,…
2024 sucked. To paraphrase Homer Simpson in a different context, it was the suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked. It both sucked and blew, which, as Bart Simpson pointed out, is hard to do. It started out with my mental health taking a nosedive to the point where I was having suicidal ideations. That…
10ish years ago, I gave up soda. I had an absolutely disastrous annual physical that year. My bad cholesterol was high, my good cholesterol was low, my blood pressure was high, and my blood sugar was high. I was overweight. I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in years. Between having a full-time job, a…
There was a kerfuffle in the chess world this weekend. Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quit a tournament on Friday because the tournament officials tried to get him to change out of his jeans. He’ll be back in on Monday. The tournament decided to loosen their dress code to allow “appropriate jeans”. I find the whole…
I don’t have much of anything to say today. It’s not writers block. It’s a case of the things that are on my mind aren’t my stories to tell. That’s something I’m always conscious of. You may have noticed that I talk about myself a lot in these posts. That’s because I’m uncomfortable telling other…
Does anyone else remember a long time ago when we were warned about refrigerators? It was back in the 1980s. Adults wanted us to be careful. Otherwise, when we were outside playing hide and seek, we might climb into an old, abandoned fridge, not be able to get out, and suffocate in there. It was…
I have been unemployed since June. It’s been terrible. It’s embarrassing and emasculating. I just can’t seem to get a job anywhere. I’ve been sending out five to seven applications a week and I’ve gotten exactly two interviews. Neither one panned out even though I felt like both interviews went well. The worst part is,…
