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Month: November 2021

Total 8 Posts

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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Advice From “That Guy”

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I think most of us have heard a story about that guy who was the picture of health, and then he keeled over from a heart attack.  It’s a true story.  I’m That Guy. As I was getting prepared

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More Serious Than a Heart Attack?

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been gone for about a week. I want to take this opportunity to tell you why. It’s not because I gave up the fight or suddenly became a supporter of inflation

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PonkaBlog Shorts #4

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! It’s time for another episode of PonkaBlog Shorts. Today you get four short articles instead of one long one. It’s the same amount of snark, just in bite-sized chunks. Alec Baldwin Let’s start with a pop quiz.  If someone

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Context and Perspective

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! 80 million sounds like a pretty big number.  That’s because in most scenarios, it is.  For example, let’s say we were talking about 80 million inches.  That’s a lot of inches.  In fact, 80 million inches is about the

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Parental Consent

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! There’s a strange inverse relationship between how old you are, how deadly COVID-19 is, and how likely you are to have a bad adverse reaction to one of the COVID vackseens.  COVID-19 impacts the elderly more than it does

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The Smile of a Stranger

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The Eskimos (though I’m pretty sure that term is no longer considered acceptable) have over 50 words for snow.  That’s a lot.  I know because I grew up in Minnesota, so I consider myself an expert on snow.  But

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Biden Breaks World Records

Joe Biden and his team attended the opening of the 2021 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland this week.  He brought along 800 of his closest advisers.  In doing so, he has made his first real accomplishment since taking office in January. Whitehouse Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explains: “As you

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