Modern parents have critical issues facing them, especially regarding their kids. We live in a brave but tough new world. I wish my parents were still alive so I could ask them just how they navigated the treacherous waters of parenthood. I just turned 70, so I suppose it doesn’t matter. I think I turned…
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Here’s a couple of quick hit things I decided to vent about on a Monday.
Why?
I read a site this morning that listed 40 or so problems that science is (allegedly) this close to solving. I read the one in the box above, and my immediate reaction was why would anyone want this?
Not Enough Toilets
I saw this bit of information in Reddit’s Today I Learned subreddit. I have two toilets in my home. Does this make Kel and me privileged and part of the 1%? I was kind of hoping that my career successes or financial status would be more critical than the number of commodes over which I…
This is not good. I think.
Tom Brady is performing in advertisements for Hertz Car Rentals. They feature Brady in a “talk show” format, discussing all manner of car rental things with the “host” of the show, comedian Yvonne Orji (with whom I am not familiar at all, but whatever). Does anyone remember the last world-famous athlete who hawked services for…
George Dearborne’s Lotta Honky Tonkin’ Left In Me
I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months catching up on country music after an April Nashville visit that drew me back. I’ll write about why and what I’m listening to in another post. This one is about a really great album. George Dearborne is a Texas-based performer who is something of a regional…
You can’t drive anymore. Or run for President
Kelly sometimes uses really precise analogies to express her opinions. She came up with a great on the other day. We were discussing the pressure being applied to Joe Biden to drop out of the current Presidential race against Donald Trump. Kelly’s analogy was very familiar. Biden being pushed to drop out is similar to…
Did you have chicken pox?
Here is some medical advice, even though you didn’t ask. If you have ever had chicken pox (and a lot of my fellow boomers did as kids, as we didn’t have a vaccine for it), go get a shingles vaccine. Go today. Now. Do not wait. I am in the tail end of a shingles…
Here I go again.
When I stopped running one of these a long time ago, I never thought I’d bother again. I’m bothering again. Just a place to drop some random and occasionally disturbing thoughts when the mood strikes. This will change a lot, so be prepared.