I'm sorry I've been more or less MIA these last couple of days, especially with so much exciting sh*t going on, but I have a note from my doctor. I've been having a little tussle with skin cancer on...
It's our nation's birthday.  It no longer feels like it used to and certainly not the way it did back in my first 26 years living in my small southern Illinois hometown.  The several days of festivities in Riverside...
D-Day, June 6 will be marked next week.  It is every year and it should be.  That terrible "Longest Day" in 1944 was the final turning of the tide that defeated Hitler's war machine.  I'm in my mid-sixties so...
The demented dentist of Flagstaff Arizona is promising a Congressional Investigation into the real masterminds of the Jan. 6th, 2020 insurrection - Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley, whose tenure in that office chiefly consisted of preventing Donald Trump...
A Dark and Cold Sunshiny Day He picked out his own clothes that morning wore his favorite yellow shirt with the red stripes his little-boy jeans and despite his protests the red jacket He looked up briefly from his morning cereal and grinned as his dad leaving to go to...
In days this dark, we all need something to let us just sit back, celebrate the fondness of life and mankind, and feel a little better about ourselves. And I am happy to say that I have just the...
As you may have heard, 'Dr." Mehmet Oz is considering a run for Pat Toomey's seat in Pennsylvania because Toomey isn't running for reelection. Let me tell you of my own personal experience with Dr. Oz, at least with his...
Hello all of my pipples! My sincere apologies for my extended absence from the site, especially in such exciting times. Let's just say it's been an adventure, and I thought that my readers deserved an explanation. Y'all know that a...
This will be short for once, I promise. Most if not all of you know that I cut my teeth on the mothership, Daily Kos. But for the last couple of years, you, my dear PZ readers,  have been...
The pandemic inevitably affected every aspect of people's lives. Lockdowns shut down whole industries and businesses as employees and customers stayed home - and the effects were cumulative. Even now, as a massive vaccination program gradually eases social restrictions,...

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