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The Eye Has It

I had planned on doing a piece on Buddy Carter’s pharma self-dealing, and a host of other writing, but personal health issues got in the way. I have a macular hole, which is a hole in the center of your eye; the part that provides fine focus. Before they could operate on the macular hole, […]

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Well now, 2024 didn’t go quite as we planned

I was, and I was not, surprised by Trump’s re-election. I knew there were too many men who would normally vote Democrat who balk at electing a women to be Commander-in-Chief; particularly a Black/Asian woman. I knew that thanks to the rebound from COVID that prices are high—aided and abetted by corporations using COVID as […]

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Silent Sunday and future writing

I am writing a longish piece on Project 2025 and immigration. Until it’s finished, here’s a few friends from the George’s Pond area.

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Debby didn’t do Savannah

Well, we lucked out. Debby was slow moving, which wasn’t good. But it degraded over land. Better yet, it grabbed and incorporated a dry air mass that kept most of the heavier overnight rain away. We lost power, so I don’t have an accurate rain measurement from my system. However, according to the University of […]

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Weblog Penance

How many times have I written about this change or that to my site? Not enough, it seems. I’m in the process of using that wonderful, magnificent site The Wayback Machine to recover posts from all my various incarnations of weblogs and whatnot sites. Yes, I do have backups from recent sites, but not the […]