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The Coronavirus Blog SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 All good things must come to an end. After 18 months of religiously tracking the virus around the world, I am stopping. Not because we’ve whipped this virus, but because I need to stop. On September 18, 2021 I wound up in the hospital with a WBC count in excess Read More …
Day to day suggestions for NOT getting a virus while traveling Since the Coronavirus (Covid-19) is well on its way to becoming Public Enemy Number One / full-blown pandemic, here are some tips for not ending up quarantined in a foreign country and becoming the next statistic. This has been my approach for over a Read More …
Celebrity Cruises is Not Making Points With Us And a lot of others The coronavirus (Covid-19) has made life difficult for a lot of people. Inconvenient for us. Catastrophic for so many more. We most certainly do not want to make light of the deadly / catastrophic impact of this virus in China and elsewhere Read More …
Much has been made of the 2020 State of the Union debacle. Trump (unsurprisingly) turned it into a campaign rally and filled it so full of lies that if we eliminated them all, it could be condensed to about 15 minutes instead of the 78 minutes he blustered through. Wonderfully, Nancy Pelosi (I am not Read More …
Over the last 4 years or so, Trump’s detractors (I am proud to be in that club) have been finding clever ways to portray the buffoon in the Oval Office. Graphic illustrations, cartoons and the like have been employed to amusing effect. But finding the perfect animal. Mother Nature’s contribution to this valiant effort… Until Read More …
It is incredibly rare (almost non-existent) that I plagiarize anyone else’s work. Except for this instance, where I immediately “stole” it from a Facebook post yesterday. I very simply could not possibly have worded this better. It is perfect. I would change nothing. Therefore I stole it immediately. According to the post this Read More …
GFY Twitter Trump Spews and I Get Suspended You Could Be Next Yesterday I got a notification that the creative Twitter account (for my art business) was suspended for some completely nebulous violation of their policies. Today I discover they have suspended all my twitter accounts. The email I received said this: Hello (my Read More …
August 6, 2019: Yet another bloody weekend in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. Multiple mass shootings taking place with a completely unacceptable body count. Let’s start at the top: El Paso, Texas A lone gunman travels over 600 miles in 9 hours with an AK 47 style rifle to shoot Read More …
Texas Proud is Great. We are Texas Proud. We love the Lone Star State. We are Texas transplants. It would be great if we had been born in the Lone Star State, but we were not. We CHOSE to make Texas our home. We could have lived anywhere but we chose Texas. We did this Read More …
I have a bumper sticker that reads: Stupidity Should Be Painful Well for certain people it has been… Recent news has inspired me to pick up where I left off from a previous post that referred to Toxic Greed. As I said before, greed in and of itself is not necessarily bad. If greed did Read More …