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Thursday, March 19, 2026

North Carolina State Senate District 26: The Republican primary that won't end

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Phil Berger (left), Sam Page (right) Image courtesy WRAL.com Look, I really don't have much of a dog in this hunt.  I don't even liv...
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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Happy 50th Showbiz Anniversary to "Weird Al" Yankovic!

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It was fifty years ago tonight, on March 14th, 1976, that radio personality Doctor Demento played a song that had been submitted by one of h...

Red Hot Deal: Keeping The Tryst for Kindle at 25% off this week!

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Starting this morning, for the next week the Kindle edition of Keeping the Tryst is 25% off .  I'm making this an offer especially for ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

EMDR, Part 3 (only six years later!)

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There are quite a few people who've told me that they appreciate when I share about my experiences with bipolar disorder.  Doing so has ...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

Boffins in Australia make human neurons play Doom

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For some time now there has been one ultimate benchmark for whether or not something has a truly computerized central component: Does it pla...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

Earl Burton, the world's greatest weatherman, has passed away

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Okay, maybe I'm more than a little biased.  But as long as I am on God's green earth I will never believe that there was ever a mete...
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Friday, February 27, 2026

Scouting America vows to Pentagon: No more transgenderism or DEI policies (EXCELLENT news!)

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Finally, some sanity is returning to Scouting. But is it too little, too late? On My Honor , Norman Rockwell   A few hours ago it was announ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Happy fortieth anniversary to The Legend of Zelda!

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  Released on this date in 1986. I played the heck out of The Legend of Zelda  when I got my Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas 198...
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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...
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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...
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