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Unlimited budget for twenty-four hours? Well, let's see, I'm too old for fast women and cars. I have all the tools I'll ever need. Of course! I'll stir up the already turbid waters of politics! With the midterms coming, it's an opportune time to do what the billionaires do and buy, buy, buy! Politicians for …
The TV habit was hard to maintain on the road before cell phones, tablets, and laptops. The final episode of Lost In Outer Space was watched in front of an old tube TV in Baltimore. I was babysitting for my friends while they were out. The Robinsons were still stuck in outer space, and even …
What was euphemistically called the AI war should have been over in less than a blink. But humans being humans kept trying to patch it up, fix it, and restore it. The banks, credit cards, Cryptos, and bookies were among the most persistent. It didn't really take too long for local and regional networks to …
We all fall down, and then we get back up. From toddlerhood to old age, there are moments when we fail, stumble, and fall. Lots of times, we even require help to get back up. Only the legendary heroes of myth and lore are perfect. And I'd maintain that taking them as role models must …
Despite my tenure in hip communities in both Greenwich Village and the back side of Boston's Beacon Hill, my drug culture participation was pretty limited. Even in that brief period of time when I purported to be a "stone head," I was largely "clean", it was a pose. In fact, it turned out that I …
Origins and origin stories are important. They act as baselines for where you came from, where you went, and have ongoing implications on your directions going forward ( I almost wrote direction home). I've dissected my origins on the blog regularly. But there are inflection points in most stories that seem more important than others. …
Yes, I do frequently hijack a prompt to twist and spindle it towards my goal of the moment. But this morning I was browsing some posts by other bloggers and found that one, Piper's Adventures ( Debbie Pierce), had written a particularly lovely piece dedicated to a friend who had just passed. I really wanted …
Yes, we all use cliches, sayings, and little tired parables whose coating of meaning has worn off with constant use. But just try to go a day without using one. I mean, thinking of one you use regularly is as easy as pie, and some even offer cheap thrills! Okay, it's the last one that …
It's just bait! Someone at WordPress Prompt Central had a laugh about this one -" The old Pius Itinerant can't resist this one! He'll maunder on about some terrible trip in 1968!" It's true I could relate the one where I wandered into...NO! I'm not going to mention that. I am quite capable of resisting …
****Last spring, when the current administration decided to do a more than thorough Spring Cleaning of government workers, I was more than a bit sad. It's a lousy job market; it was a surprise massacre, vital work was disrupted, and careers were smashed. Within six months, many were emptying their retirement accounts to cover health …
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