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Relax, It’s Just a Cold

I caught a cold on Friday.  It started out with a sore throat and eventually ended up in my sinuses.  It wasn’t a particularly bad cold.  I’ve had much worse.  I could have panicked.  I could have called my doctor, freaked out that it was “the COVID”.  But I didn’t. 

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The Dumbing Down of America

When I was in junior high, there were two math classes.  The “A” class was for kids who didn’t do well in math and the “B” class was for those that excelled.  The school thought that by calling the lesser-skilled kids the “A” class, they’d be fooled into not feeling

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The BAC of Consent

In late March, the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned a felony rape conviction because the victim was intoxicated by her own will during the assault. The thinking behind it is that if someone willfully becomes intoxicated, then they are at least partly to blame for anything bad that might happen while

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The Star of COVID

It’s problem-solving day again.  Time to find a solution for something that needs one.  Today’s topic: Identifying people who haven’t been vaccinated.  Let me start out by saying that I believe there’s nothing worse than someone who chooses not to be injected with an experimental drug.  Who are they to

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Idiots, Morons and COVID-19

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I first published this in March of this year. Sadly, not much has changed. I updated it with the new numbers and information about the variants which were nearly unheard of back in March. Enjoy… I know that “profiling”

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Killed by a Stray Drink

Every time there’s a high-profile shooting here in the U.S. the same predictable thing happens.  The same people start complaining about gun violence and demand that tighter restrictions be placed on guns and the same people demand an outright ban on private gun ownership. Every single time. In the U.S.,

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Joe vs. Vlad

Vladimir Putin has challenged Joe Biden to take part in a discussion broadcast live and in real time.  This should be something that every American supports.  After all, we’re the sole remaining superpower and enjoy the high ground of moral superiority.  Every one of us should be demanding that our

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One (Un)lucky SOB

I think I might just be the unluckiest SOB on the planet.  Here’s my situation… I give blood whenever I can, and the Red Cross tests all donated blood for COVID-19 antibodies.  Each time I give blood, I eagerly wait for the results of my latest antibody test.  And each

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