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Not-so-Occasional Comments on Life, Death and Many Things in Between by Laurie Mann

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

When You Refuse to Hire Experts...

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Here is what happens when you need an expert to do something and refuse to hire an expert and instead hire someone you go golfing with who...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

My Reaction to the #TrumpTulsaRally (6/20/2019)

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The #TrumpTulsaRally teen TikTok ticket hack was the BEST combination of punking and a peaceful protest of the #TrumpRegime EVER! Way to go...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

100 Days of Quarantine

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So we have now followed our state's "Stay Home" order for 100 days. Jim had worked from home for 14 years and had been plann...
Friday, June 05, 2020

Militarization and the Police in Response to Protests After the Extrajudicial Killing of George Floyd

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I found the obvious murder of George Floyd to be enraging. But...as a fat person with high blood pressure and being over 60, I'm doi...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Remember When 45 Said...

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I did not write this, but I completely agree with it. We must keep track. Remember when 45 said... ...he was going to donate his sala...

Not a Happy Time in Real Life

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I have no reason to complain. Jim and I are comfortably retired, while we can't travel, we are in a rural area with relatively little...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Happy Tales from Set: Oscar Isaac & Me

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In 2011, I was an extra for Won't Back Down , a movie about a school in the inner city starring Viola Davis as a teacher and Maggie Gy...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Happy Tales from Set: The "Quiet" Jack Reacher Bus Scene

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Steveo Parys, AD extraordinaire, said on Facebook  " Asking all friends from the world of entertainment to join the challenge of ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Yet More Reasons for the Senate to Convict and Expel Trump

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In the fall of 2019, George Kent testified before the House Intelligence Committee, "You can’t promote principled anti-corruption act...
Friday, February 08, 2019

Open Letter to the Port Authority About Its Metrowest "Service"

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Is it possible to start a conversation about how mass transit is becoming impossible to use in some areas?  I live in Metrowest.  It used t...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

From AARP Bulletin 1/2019: 99 Ways to Add Healthy Years

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https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2019/guide-healthier-longer-life.html (My honest answers) , 1/2019 at age of 61 BE PREPAR...
Monday, January 14, 2019

It's True - Honest Atheists Cannot Hold State Office In Pennsylvania

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You see a lot of graphic memes online.  Often, they are not true.  But...sometimes they are. A graphic showed up on Facebook today, showi...
Sunday, December 02, 2018

My Tale of Two Messiahs

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I performed The Messiah with the Calvary United Methodist Church Festival Choir on Saturday afternoon (https://www.facebook.com/events/...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Contact Congress NOW

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On July 16, 2018, Donald Trump committed treason by denying Russian influence over the 2016 election and refusing to believe the findings ...
Sunday, January 07, 2018

All Gone to Look for America (Part

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Simon and Garfunkel's "America" came out in April, 1968. I always heard the chorus as "All gone to look for America....
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Our Trip to Italy: Lessons Learned and Great Restaurants

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[[Originally published on 11/12/2017 in Alien Cheese]] We had a wonderful 2 1/2 weeks in Italy this fall. It's a trip we'd been ...
Monday, October 02, 2017

Why Massacres Are ALWAYS Terrorist Act

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[[Originally published on 10/2/2017 in Alien Cheese]] Many people have a very narrow definition of terrorism -- it's always related to...
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