January 1, 2024 Or, Go Fund Me I recently heard a report that suggested that for a couple to live comfortably in the Divided States of America they would need to bring in $85,000.00 per annum. I doubt very much that this report took into account the high cost of living in California (particularly Southern […]
December 22, 2023 I was talking to Mark at the Rosenthal wine tasting room (which is right across the PCH from my Topanga State Beach surf spot and where Mark works) and we got onto the topic of medical insurance. When he told me how much he has to pay per month — I was
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November 25, 2023 Whoever said that the older we get the more people die on us — hit the nail on the coffin. A few months back I closed up The Doctor\’s Inn with a seeming loss in relevance: I didn\’t have the urge to write. Then, my website designer and maintenance guy (Bahman/Eddie) announced
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November 16, 2023 As I look at my contentions RE: social issues and key players on the domestic and international stages over-the- years–I notice that I have been wrong in my framing of \”things\” on many an occasion. But soon my readers will have the opportunity to fire back at me (although that potentiality has
November 8, 2023 Have you ever had a friend as constant as the Rock of Gibraltar? I had such a friend. He was a mentor; the Big Brother I never had; a conscience; and, the only person who would say to my face: \”Well that\’s fucking stupid.\” The family called him Uncle Mark. The bowling
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October 31, 2023 Or, The Power of the Vagina I still retain a Non Sequitur comic strip (The Daily News doesn\’t \’do\’ Wiley) that depicts Two individuals at St. Peter\’s Gate and the sign on the gate reads: No Religion Beyond This Point–to which one prospective entrant says to the other: \”I always wondered how
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October 23, 2023 I haven\’t forgotten that World War Five is underway — it\’s just that there is a problem that\’s closer to home that has to be ministered to: World War Five will unfold as it will unfold… No, that is not a misprint in the title: I used to be a registered Republican!
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October 10, 2023 My long-time readers know that I don\’t think the next world war should be called WWIII — but rather, WWV — because there have been at least two world wars since the end of WWII. The Third World War was actually the Cold War — when US and Russia kept saber rattling
Begun on October 1, 2023 (My Father\’s 101st birthday had he not passed at 97.) All this talk about MAGA types and conservative hard-liners destroying democracy is becoming quite pathetic. Folks, we\’ve never, ever had a democracy! US has been a feudal system from the get go — and control is maintained by knights (the
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September 23, 2023 Someone sent me a video snippet featuring a lovely (and persuasive) young lady listing the many freedoms US once had before the institution of governmental controls took away individual autonomy and replaced it with taxes, laws and controls. The segment concluded with the punch line suggesting that most of US in the
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