A Day I My Life – TV Commercials that Drive Me Crazy Edition – January 12, 2023

In my never-ending quest to stay away from politicizing my blog today (which isn’t easy), I’m going to complain about something that’s driving me crazy: TV commercials that: –feature thirty-somethings complaining about “crow’s feet” around their eyes, and, therefore, they need Botox injections –push pharmaceuticals that have so many side effects that, when the fine…

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A Day in the Life – January 2, 2023

Lethargy has set in today. I have a thousand things to do and don’t feel like doing any of them. In some ways, I’m still recovering from our trip to Michigan, which ended last Wednesday night–very late last Wednesday, I might add. We had to drive back the long way in order to avoid going…

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And Still…

I did everything right. I was one of the first people to sign up for the Pfizer vaccination and got both of them. And still I got COVID19. I have both Pfizer boosters. And still I got COVID19. I have worn a KN95 mask to all public places–grocery stores, drug stores, etc. I have confronted…

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Memories of the Hungarian Revolution

In October 1956, I was just about to turn eight years old. We had just purchased the first television ever in our household, which, at the time, had an antenna, a bunch of tubes, and frequently went out of service so that we had to call a repairman to fix it. The set was humungous….

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War–What is it Good For? Absolutely NOTHING!

Turn on the news. Pick up a newspaper. What’s the top story? Will Vladimir Putin actually invade Ukraine? Will the 100,000-plus troops he’s sent to surround Ukraine begin moving in on the country he considers to be part of Russia? Is his goal to re-create the old Soviet Union? I mean, he’s already taken Crimea….

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