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The Rule of 25 Things

Posted in Alcoholism, Baseball, Boozing, Human Nature, Humor, Love, Romance, Sex, tagged , , , on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A slew of those 25 things clones is making the rounds. The latest is a series of 25 questions we’re supposed to answer Yes or No to without additional comment. The questions are kind of personal, and I have a hunch a sedate housewife or a CEO might be reluctant to answer some of them. [...]

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The Beginning of Time

Posted in Alcoholism, Bureaucracy, Child Abuse, Crime, Current Events, Demographics, Domestic Violence, History and Recollections, Human Nature, Pet Peeves, Politics, Suicide, Surviving, War on January 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today is the first day of another year in our system of calculating the passage of time from the death of Jesus Christ until, well, now. By that reckoning, humans have been actively engaged in counting days, weeks, months, and years for 2008 years. And at the stroke of midnight last night, they began counting [...]

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May is Mental Health Month

Posted in Alcoholism, Current Events, Suicide, Surviving on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

…and it’s time for a Jiffy Brain Lube…
I’m okay on the physical side. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d probably come in with an 8. I’m 167 fully clothed, don’t drink or smoke, and I watch my calories.
On the downside, every calorie in my mouth is a fat calorie times 2 because I [...]

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Help Prevent Child Abuse

Posted in Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Crime, Current Events, Television, tagged , on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
About 3,000,000 cases of child abuse are reported annually in America. Between 97 and 100 thousand of those cases involve children under the age of two.
The types of child abuse are many.
• Physical abuse of all kinds
• Sexual abuse
• Abandonment
• [...]

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Fried Day

Posted in Alcoholism, Boozing, Bureaucracy, Current Events, History and Recollections, Humor, tagged , , on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When I was a paid apparatchik instead of a volunteer alien spacecraft spotter, we used to sit around and dream up funny names for this, that, or the other things. We once created names for the days of the week we believed described those days better than the traditional names.
My favorite name was Fried Day. [...]

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Felice Navidad

Posted in Alcoholism, Boozing, Current Events, Shopping, Surviving, tagged , , , on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

That means “Merry Christmas” doesn’t it? Whatever. It’s one of my favorite songs. Some others—Jingle Bell Rock, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and the one about Santa being up on the rooftops or something like that.
But my all time favorite is the First Noel because I was forced against [...]

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The President’s alcohol addiction

Posted in Alcoholism, Boozing, Child Abuse, Current Events, Human Nature, News Media, Politics, Power, War, tagged , , , on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Check this link for an ABC story headlined Bush: ‘I Doubt I’d be Standing Here if I Hadn’t Quit Drinking Whiskey.’
He goes on to say …”beer and wine and all that.” And he reveals that he quit drinking over 20 years ago cold turkey.
After I read Martha Radatz’s article, I thought about his remarks. The [...]

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