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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

It's the Fortieth Anniversary of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

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  The first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  hit the stands on this date in 1986. Four full decades later, it remains perhaps the m...

The object lesson of Jesse Jackson

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  Jesse Jackson passed away today at the age of 84. I'm not the kind of person who speaks ill of the recently deceased.  That's some...

What clip to honor Robert Duvall's memory with?

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Robert Duvall , one of my all time most favorite actors, passed away two days ago.  The news broke about it yesterday and ever since I'v...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Me according to ChatGPT

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Lately there's been a little bit of a fad on Facebook: where people are asking ChatGPT to make a caricature of them based on what the AI...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

A message to the people - and candidates - of Rockingham County, North Carolina

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I'm going to come out and say it: It is absolutely shameful what is happening right now in Rockingham County politics. Regardless of dis...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Final thoughts about this year's Super Bowl halftime show

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It really shouldn't have been any surprise, that the Bad Bunny performance would be so ridden with vile content (in whatever language it...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

The Super Bowl halftime show that I watched tonight

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I refused to watch the official Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny.  Seeing a grown man in a dress who has burned the American fla...
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Saturday, February 07, 2026

Weird items in the news: honey additive, expanding bread, and a World War I shell lodged in a man's buttocks

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Lots of crazy stuff in the news this past week.  I've been sharing them with friends on Facebook, where they have engendered no small am...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

When God speaks: Ten years later...

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It occurred to me today, while at a school working with a group of special needs kids, that this week is an anniversary of sorts for me. It ...
Sunday, February 01, 2026

What if Andy Kaufman really did fake his own death?

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I swear, the craziness  that pops so seemingly randomly across my synapses sometimes... For whatever reason, this afternoon I found myself t...
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Friday, January 30, 2026

John Carpenter's The Thing has been added to the National Film Registry

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  This is great!!  One of my favorite movies of all time.  In fact, I watched it this past weekend as the ice was beginning to fall.  It...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Remembering STS-51-L: The final flight of the Challenger

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Forty years ago today came the end of the childhood of my generation. The space shuttle Challenger  was blown to bits shortly after liftoff,...
Monday, January 26, 2026

The first (and last?) winter storm of the season is behind us

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I feel kind of foolish now.  In preparation for what was being declared a disaster of massive proportions, I stocked up on a dozen cans of d...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Another person dead in Minneapolis. Here's what happened...

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Okay, I just took a look at the videos of what happened to one Alex Pretti yesterday in Minneapolis.  Pretti being the latest person to peri...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

The first trailer for Masters of the Universe promises big, dumb, and FUN!

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Hot dang!  I have  to see this when it comes out.   Masters of the Universe  looks to be the most funnest movie that I would have beheld in ...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Where Tammy and I were nine years ago...

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This photo popped up in my Facebook memories this morning and I thought it was worth sharing for its overwhelming cuteness value: This was i...
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