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Why Are We So Politically Gullible?
A Sticky Trump Addiction. Won’t You Please Help? I’m as politically gullible as the next guy. But I’m also part of a medically underserved population struggling to cure itself of a Trump addiction. It takes over our lives and
Another Stab at Normal Politics
Does anyone remember what they are? America is taking another stab at returning to whatever political normalcy is and making us one nation indivisible again. But after overwhelming tragedy, and four years of making America great and domestic terrorism…
A Short Complaint About Normalcy
A Short Complaint About Normalcy “Normalcy” has become an accepted word again. I used to do spit takes whenever I heard it, which did no good and led to serious dehydration issues. Everybody uses it anyway and seems to have…
The Disloyal Misfits Camped Next To The 10th Mountain Division
And a new generation of literally cold warriors It’s less bizarre this time, but the Army is buying “skis, snowshoes, large tents and other equipment to train troops on cold-weather survival” again. This time it doesn’t have to share a…
Chaplain Arrested by Military Police
The Army Times called it “in a perfect encapsulation of 21st century life on Kuwait’s Camp Buehring, a Pennsylvania Army National Guard chaplain was handcuffed and hauled off by military police.”