Inelegant, imperfect, but perfectly clear: HANDS OFF OUR STUFF, BILLIONAIRES! Be there — wherever there is closest to you — on April 5th 2025! It’s time they heard from us, loud and clear: RELINQUISH OUR HARD WON GAINS??? NOT ON OUR WATCH!!
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Just scheduled the ultrasound for my “abdominal mass” — what I’m calling my hernia but which could be any number of other things, most benign although they may require surgery, a few of them malignant. It’s sorta weird that I don’t much care which way it turns out. The mass is either fixable, in
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“God is the name of the blanket we put over the mystery to give it a shape.” – Barry Taylor, road manager for AC/DC Mic drop! Eggs-ack-ly!
On a Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Elon Musk proclaimed that America is in imminent danger of losing its culture. Really?!! Define American Culture, South African Apartheid Spawn! If by American culture Musk means government by, of and for rich, cisgender, Protestant, white male supremacists — which is pretty close to how I
I’m going to the doctor today. (Alas, not that one!) I’ve been developing a hernia (or something!) for the past several months, so I finally made an appointment to have it looked at. The problem is, sometimes it’s almost undetectable while at other times it’s a two or three finger length
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Doctor McCoy has beamed in from China, compliments of Tanjin Tam. Tanjim promised me a couple years ago that I’d be receiving one as soon as they were available as a thank you gift for helping him flesh out Dr. McCoy’s between-Starfleet-services background (De regaled Trek convention audiences with the idea that McCoy was a
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My super insightful Costa Rican immigration coach, Margaret Aliff, recently pointed me to a lovely private group on Facebook whose administrator offers lodging and other welcoming services to newly ariving LGBTQIA+ people who are moving to Costa Rica under various immigration designations — refugee, pensionado, rentista, digital; nomads, etc. They’re in an area which
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I’m back with my walking routine, which helps keep me on a more or less even keel. It’s crucial to remember that there’s more to life than whatever T and the GOP wrecks. Walking I used to wear a headset when walking. I’d listen to music. But now I’m going without a headset,
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It took some dedicated research, but I found a moble vet who can prepare Charli’s travel docs and give her the required exams, shots, and parasite treatment for $461, and even less if I want to drive Charli north about 30 miles. Hurray! But I think I’ll have her come here to Tacoma so
I don’t feel much like writing today, but believe I need to in order to maintain my equilibrium. So, here goes with stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Last evening, I experienced several lightning strike-like, momentary nerve-pain “pinches” in my left groin. Shortly following one of them, my right shoulder blade felt weird, too. (Yeah, I know,
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