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Close Encounters

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I know a woman who gets headaches.  She didn’t used to get headaches, it’s something that started recently.  After suffering off and on for a few weeks, she was able to finally pinpoint the cause of her ailment.  It

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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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More Serious Than a Heart Attack?

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 or open borders. Nor did I decide to become a Brandon

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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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A Very Scary Story

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! In honor of Halloween, I’m going to tell you a scary story.  It’s a story not of what for sure will happen, but of what may happen.  And no one can tell you for sure that it won’t.  To

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The Traveler’s Guide to COVID

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The Biden Administration just announced a change to the COVID policy for international travelers coming to the United States.  Starting November 8th, unvacksinated U.S. citizens and long-term residents will have to present a negative COVID test taken a day

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