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The End of Excellence

My wife and I have an inside joke.  I’ll do some project for her and ask her if she’s satisfied with the results.  She’ll say, “It’s fine.”  To which I’ll reply, “Fine is what I aspire to be.” I admit, it’s not a great joke, but it amuses us.  Because

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Bruce 5:30

I was at a grocery store last week.  My wife and I had made a bet about whether or not the bag of groceries we were buying was going to cost more or less than $100.  She took the under and I took the over.  While checking out, I started

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Womanatee

I know this isn’t a popular thing to say these days.  Though I’m attacked at every turn, I’m never going to be hailed as “courageous” for saying what I’m about to say.  Here it is. I am a man. There’s no mistaking that.  I obviously look like a man.  If

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Don’t Eat Paste

I remember one time when I was in kindergarten. Nap time had just started and a classmate of mine took off one of his boots.  Then he poured about a dozen marbles out onto the floor, and they scattered everywhere. His older brothers had put the marbles in his shoe

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For the Record

I got an email from Amazon the other day telling me about a book that they think I might want to read.  The accolades for the book went something like this: “This is the number one best seller of any fourth book in a series written by this author!”.  I

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Crazy Like a Liberal

It seems like more and more often, I find myself shaking my head and wondering how anyone can think the things that some people think.  I’ll admit, my political views tend to lean a bit Conservative, so most of the time the people whose thinking I’m thinking about happen to

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Table Manners

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! This year, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and the rest of the platforms have made a practice of filtering messages with a Conservative point of view.  Even when those messages are completely accurate. Inevitably, people start bitching and moaning about “censorship”

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Dumb and Dumber

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I use software that helps me publish my articles.  Every time I publish something, it warns me that the language I use may be too difficult to understand, and that I should rewrite it to make it easier for

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PonkaBlog Shorts #5

It’s time for another installment of PonkaBlog Shorts. From time to time I run across things that are worth talking about but aren’t big enough for an entire article on their own. Here are six such topics. You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Salvation Army

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