It used to be that a story about an athlete dropping dead on the playing field was big news. Now it happens so often that it’s starting to become background noise. Think about it. Two years ago, we might hear one, maybe two stories a year about people dying while
Last summer, my friend, who happens to be black… Hang on, I forget, is the color of a person’s skin not supposed to matter at all, or is it the only thing that matters? I can’t remember which it is these days. I get so confused. Anyway, my African-American friend…well,
About a month ago, the headlines on the mainstream media read “Supreme Court rejects bid to block COVID vaccine mandate for NY Health Workers”. Even for the MSM, this was big news. The headline was everywhere. And it was misleading. One of the ways a case can make it to
I went back to college in my late 30’s. By then, I had learned the trick of working smarter rather than harder. One time, I had to write a paper for my Economics class. Since I didn’t really care for the class, I decided to take a shortcut. In other
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The phrase “pick your poison” has a couple different meanings. It can refer to making a choice between two or more unpleasant options. When you “pick your poison”, you’re choosing which bad thing you’d prefer to happen. It’s also
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! This year, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and the rest of the platforms have made a practice of filtering messages with a Conservative point of view. Even when those messages are completely accurate. Inevitably, people start bitching and moaning about “censorship”
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Now that Christmas is behind us, we can all start to recover from eating too much good food and listening to too much bad conversation. Hopefully you were able to bite your tongue and get through an afternoon with
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! There are three things in this world for certain. Death and taxes are the two most people are familiar with. The third is this: If you don’t look for something, you’re probably not going to find it. Of course,
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! From time to time, when I’m buying groceries, the cashier will say something like this, “would you like to donate $5.00 for cancer?” My answer is always the same. “No. Because I’m not a fan of cancer. So why
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Years ago, I went to lunch with an attorney who worked at the same company I did. We were going to be driving by a Staples store on our way back to the office and had been asked to