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Month: July 2021

Total 26 Posts

Science Says…

Remember when you were a kid and you played “Simon Says”?  Sure you do.  Someone would be “Simon” and make up simple tasks for the participants to do.  If Simon stated an instruction starting with “Simon says”, then you were supposed to do what Simon said.  If Simon didn’t first

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Dumber Than a Sack of Hammers

I believe that if you’re going to represent the United States, then you should, at the very least, show some respect for our country. Last week, Gwen Berry, a hammer thrower, turned away from the flag during the playing of our national anthem at the U.S. track and field Olympic

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A Caricature of a Man

Have you ever had your picture drawn by someone at a fair or other tourist trap?  Rarely do those images, they’re called caricatures, show how you believe you really look.  Instead, the artist focuses on features that define your appearance, and then exaggerates the hell out of them.  For example,

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Pocket Change

The White House recently tweeted that the average family will save 16 cents on their July 4th cookout this year.  Then, and rightfully so, they were mocked. Everybody knows that however Biden’s team calculated the 16 cent savings, they did it incorrectly.  About the only way they could have come

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The Great Miscommunicator

Ronald Reagan was often called “The Great Communicator” because of his ability to educate his audience using eloquent speech and word pictures to make his point.  He used your mind as a canvas, painting it with words to help you visualize what he was saying.  To this day, watching his

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Kids, COVID and Vackseens

Remember last year when we learned that the younger you are, the less likely you are to have a really bad case of COVID-19?  In fact, we learned that if you’re healthy and under 60, there is little risk to you at all from COVID-19.  And the younger you are,

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