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RIP Masky

There’s a term used to describe how long something will work before it breaks.  That term is “Mean Time Between Failure” or MTBF for short.  I used the same face mask for the last 87 days.  It’s typically kept in the cup holder in my car beneath my travel mug. 

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Absurd – The New Normal

I’m going to start out by saying that I really hate the term “the new normal”.  It implies a permanence to me that I’m not comfortable with.  I’d be OK with “the new temporary normal” which indicates that things will eventually get back to where they belong. “The new temporary

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Trump’s America

One of my Liberal Facebook “friends” posted a question the other day.  He wanted to know if the United States was a shithole country yet.  My response was, “Not yet.  You need to try a little harder.” By now you’ve probably all heard people call this “Trump’s America”.  The claim

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My Pronouns

Apparently, there are an unlimited number of genders.  People can now just make up a gender and then expect that everyone should refer to them by that determination. But, having “non-binary” genders in addition to man and woman causes a problem.  For those people who don’t believe they’re either a

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Mask Hysteria

[Note: I wrote this prior to the election. Unfortunately, not much has changed since then.] I am not the least bit concerned about COVID-19.  Zip, zilch, nada.  My wife is the same way. Do you want to know why?  Because we don’t blindly believe everything we’re told when there is

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The Vacant Seat

I’m going to say the exact same thing I said when President Obama was trying to fill Justice Scalia’s seat.  The politicians should do their jobs.  When Mitch McConnell stalled the confirmation of President Obama’s nominee, he was wrong.  But, denying President Trump the opportunity to fill the empty seat

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