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Category: Politics

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Pick Your Poison

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

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Table Manners

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”

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Christmas Passed

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

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Looking for Trouble

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,

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The Gullibility Virus

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

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Dumb and Dumber

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I use software that helps me publish my articles.  Every time I publish something, it warns me that the language I use may be too difficult to understand, and that I should rewrite it to make it easier for

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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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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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