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This is a political post. Please across down if interested.                                     Amy Coney Barrett is Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. This is curious for two reasons: In 2016, Barrett gave an interview where she stated that it…

This is a political post. Please scroll down if interested.                                                   From Wiki: ActBlue is a nonprofit technology organization established in June 2004 that enables left-leaning nonprofits, Democrats, and progressive groups…

This is a political post. Please scroll down if interested.                               And decent people around the globe are utterly devastated. Which brings me to Mitch McConnell. During Obama’s last year in office, Mitch refused to have hearings on Obama’s Supreme Court…

While this post is about the Cross House, it is also political. Please scroll down if interested.                                                

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                   I talk with Trump supporters. And, when I do, I always get the same answers to my question: “Why do you support Trump?” Consistently though, the answers are…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                                   Scientific American magazine was founded 175-years ago. They have never endorsed a candidate running for president. They have now. It…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                        

This past week has been mostly touching up the inside corner I have been working on for a while at the Cross House. Very, very soon, I will be finished with the corner and, thus, the entire second floor after 695 years of work. Concurrent to this, is work at my current residence, about 20…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                       Someone I know posted this online:     I shook my head. For, nobody is asking that he apologize for the America flag. Nor is anybody…

This is a political post. Scroll down if interested.                                             When Obama was president, Republicans lost their minds when Obama wore a tan suit. “He’s disrespecting the presidency!” When Obama was president, Republicans lost…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                           Donald Trump is a pathological liar. Essentially, if he is talking or tweeting, he is lying. When I talk with Trump supporters they do…

During the summer of 1976, I had utterly failed on living on my own, and had moved back in with mom and dad. I was nineteen. I needed a job, STAT. The newspaper had small ad for a job at the famous Tiki Gardens, on Indian Rocks Beach, across the peninsula from where I lived….

This is the fourth installment of my Time Travel series.   I had been dashed upon the rocks. It was the summer of 1976 and, after boldly moving out of the family home the year previous, living in my first apartment, having my dream apartment stolen out from under me, moving into my second apartment…

This is a political post. Please scroll down if interested.                                             The Democratic party is the party of diversity. Sadly, this has almost never been reflected in the top ticket. So, today makes me…

In my previous Time Travel post, I deliberately restricted the story about my second apartment because I wanted the focus to remain mostly on the generosity of the couple which created the apartment. In this post, I add some stories! Because I was not in the apartment for long, I have few memories of my…

In my previous Time Travel post, I detailed how the dastardly Rob had stolen the apartment of my dreams right out from under me. About that fateful day, I wrote: One afternoon, after I had brought out the cheese/cracker tray, Rob and I talked a bit. He asked: “Are you OK? You seem really upset.”…