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Woman in Name Only

I have a favor to ask.  It’s not a big ask.  But it would mean a lot to me.  I realize that you don’t know me, and if I were you, I’d probably be hesitant to commit.  But I’m going to ask anyway. Before I do that, I’m going to

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Title Nein!

Late last year, I asked the question, “How many women have to die before men are banned from competing in women’s sports?”  Of course, the answer should be “zero.” I asked that question because of the increasing number of instances where girls are being seriously injured after being forced to

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Pizza the Hut

Pizza Hut is laying off more than 1,200 delivery drivers in and around Los Angeles.  The reason?  The company will tell you it’s just a coincidence that the layoffs are coming just a few weeks before California increases the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour. But

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Reasonable Doubt

I friend of mine once told me he believes that out of everyone he knows, I’m the person most likely to get away with murder. Hmm.  You should know by now that I like to think about things like that.  So, I did.  Before I get started, I want to

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Surgery On Demand

After my heart attack in 2021, I was told that I should start paying attention to my blood pressure.  Up until that point, my blood pressure had always been fine.  But I decided to take their advice and invest in a BP monitor. What nobody told me was that blood

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Eleanor Rigby 2023

Eleanor Rigby Learning to panic from things she sees on CNN. Lives in a dream See her commuting. Wearing a mask in the car when there’s nobody near. Who does she fear? I was taking a walk this morning and I saw a couple walking toward me.  They had a

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Traffic Flaws

There was a study published recently in The Journal of American Medicine titled “COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and the Risk of a Traffic Crash”.  The study, performed by a group of Canadian researchers, compared traffic accidents experienced by people who had been given a COVID-19 vacksination and those who hadn’t. I

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Common Scents

A few years ago, my neighbor invited me to go fishing with him and his buddies just off the coast of Southern California.  I’m not really a fisherman but didn’t have anything to do that day so I went along for the ride.  I’m usually OK on boats.  But, as

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Liar, Liar

In case you missed it, last week at a conference in Europe, a Pfizer representative admitted that the company never bothered to test whether or not their COVID vackseen prevents the transmission of the disease to others. The Conservative press picked up the story and ran with it.  The headlines

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Truth is Treason

I never answer my phone anymore.  Nobody seems to be able to do anything about spam calls, so I took it upon myself to come up with a solution.  If you call me, and I don’t have you in my contacts, your call goes to voicemail.  Sure, I’ve missed a

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