Lifestyles

Back in The Game

If I seem to be MIA, now you know why...

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Zoom adventure

Spooky green-screen effects

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My Tarot Website

Years in the making!

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"It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it."

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The Latest on Maureen, if You Were Wondering. Or not.

I thought I'd lighten things up around here with a progress report on my dear sister, Maureen.

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Pandemic Blues

It's like we should all be going around ringing bells and shouting “Unclean, unclean.”

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Christmas Crazies

Anyone who believes he or she had an Ozzie and Harriet, Currier and Ives, Norman Rockwell, or Irving Berlin kind of "White Christmas", needs to seek and secure professional help immediately...

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T-Rex, Krampus & I – visit daughter Laura

Lord God I look, okay am, old and drunk, no really not drunk

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So Back to Me…

...because I'm sure you're wondering.

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Naked Man in my Back Yard

Summer & winter, uncomplaining

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Other People’s Garbage

A hostess gift of horse manure - thank you thank you

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The Marvelous Pleasures of Ethiopian Food

I'm a closet foodie, something I admit with a somewhat guilty conscience given all of the hunger and food insecurity in the world. Nevertheless, as a closet foodie, my secret passion is Ethiopian cuisine. The fact that a country that has long been associated with recollections of famines has such has one of the most unique and flavorful cuisines is one of life's strange ironies.

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What’s Going On in My Life

I'm hearing there's been some pressure on members of this forum to post more than they do. Or to post at all.

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Hidden House

There's a front door there somewhere

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They don’t make ’em like that any more

Be it ever so humble...

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Okay, so nothing exciting is happening (that's GOOD!)

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What’s for breakfast?

BREAKFAST! COLOR-CODED FOOD!

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Alan Milner on Bindlesnitch

"If a fact-based, snark-free environment deters people from showing up and signing on, then so be it..."

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Covid Cancellations: A Short List

Here's a short list of the cancellations that must be contemplated consistent the with the recommendation to avoid intimate indoor and outdoor gatherings...

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Good Help is Hard to Find

Got a call from Frank, my old handyman back east. He phones periodically, but always towards the end of the year to remind me about Dr. Who – I send him a CD of the previous year's episodes every Xmas. He doesn't have TV and used to come to my place to watch. Not welcome in everyone's house

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Supermarket Automation at Wal-Mart

We hate shopping at Wal-Mart but since the prices at the Wal-Mart Supermarkets are up to 20% less for the same items at Publix, and we are on a very limited income, we would be fools not to shop there. Today, however, we were quite shocked by one of the changes they have made to the store. There are no more cashiers. None.

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“I Look White”…..(But), Cheryl Green Rosario, HuffPost

I’ve also been a fly on the wall when white people didn’t know anyone of color was looking or listening.

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On Becoming a “Black Friend.”

Everything about this man is interesting.  It is difficult to know where to begin to describe him.  His story is just so interesting.  I guess the best way is to just relate how I came to know him.  V arrived at my door to do demolition to my old bathroom with his 16 year old son.

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Buyer Beware: Amazon vs. Home Depot

The lowly but indispensable 5-in-1 Painter's Tool is experiencing a surge in popularity with some versions now that the painter's tool can now perform up to 15 functions. So, yes, you need one....but be careful where you buy yours.

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At 74, Something to Contemplate

For the soul is dead that slumbers,    And things are not what they seem.

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A Very Fetching Retriever in the Before Time

Everything started to change then, but we were not quite seeing it.  It was right around then that I heard that this virus...

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Five Minutes On Clair De Lune

You'd think I would feel that there's nothing I could learn from someone who purports to teach me how to listen to a piece I've been playing for decades....

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What White Folks Don’t Know

How does one go about proving that he/she has the right to exist and live as a human being?

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“no way would I carry that much cash”

A shift to a cashless economy would effectively exclude or shut, already marginalized black and brown people, out of the economic mainstream altogether.

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What Meritoracy? Tim Wise Is Spot On As Usual

It will be because white people make the case to reluctant and recalcitrant white folks...

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This Is Brotherhood by Chief Dan George

This essay was written by Chief Dan George (1899-1981) a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band. He was known as political and social activist, poet, author, musician and actor who was best known for his Oscar-nominatated role as Old Lodge Skins in the film Little Big Man

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VA Lost Lee, NASCAR Nixed the South’s Flag & R. Williams Is Gone

It’s the little things that have the greatest impact on the nature and quality of an individual’s life....

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I Have a Call for Bitey, Will You Accept…

As we discussed the life of a clergy, Reverend Miller said, I want you to consider studying theology, and to pursue a career as a pastor.  I said, “what about the calling?

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Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

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When, Oh When, Will You White People Put an End to This Shit?!

One can easily imagine what the posture would be if this video hadn't been shot and published...

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First Impressions

The cello is up in her genius workshop, along with some antiques, and some rolled up Oriental rugs that we are not using. The last couple of years, I have listened to her cello playing from a distance. It seems to improve in sudden steps. It was her first stringed instrument, so if you were not watching, you could not tell if she was playing a drum, a kazoo, or livestock.

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How Bigotry Has Befallen Baby Boomers

Whenever I see a headline with the word "seniors" in it, I know that whatever follows that headline is going to be another scam aimed at older people, a quack cure for yet another made-up disease, a warning about how the government is going to take away your Social Security

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I’m Beginning to Suspect That…

If this place is to work, it will work because people who write, care about the writing and the right to do so, not about the display or the splash...

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November Remembrance

That's me in the basket...

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Shopping From My Closet

BY RITA BANNINGER

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People who would buy the ‘Jesus Shoe’

The concept of "the Jesus shoe" is at best an insult to Christians and abject blasphemy at worst....

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Open Call: BindleSnitch Housekeeping Suggestions and Requests

If you have any other housekeeping suggestions or requests make them here or in a separate post...

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The Dept of Don’t Get Me Started: In What Sense Is God Perfect?

In What Sense Is God Perfect?

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I’d Never Have Considered a “Life Style Lift” ‘Til Now

Bargain

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The Jonathon Wolfman Book Cover Challenge – Day 4

I just finished reading this book last night.  I read for a few extra hours because I wanted to know more about one of the most "notorious" whistle blowers in the history of the US. 

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Jon Wolfman’s book challenge #3

I usually stay away from terms like Paradigm Shift but this was one.

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The Jonathon Wolfman Book Cover Challenge – Day 3

I think this book is important to me because it is about a young girl's trials while coming out and dealing with the bigotry & anti-LGBTQ sentiments in the Midwest.  

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A Bonus Book Cover for Jon’s Challenge

In many respects, the protagonist could easily have been me.

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The Jonathon Wolfman Book Cover Challenge – Day 2

This is one of my "go to again" books.  I guess that is because my first girlfriend was a Black chick who greatly resembled "Shug" in her actions and attitude.

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The Jonathan Wolfman Book Cover Challenge, Day 4

In an effort to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Frank M. Snowden examines a broad span of Greco- Roman history...

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The Jonathan Wolfman Book Cover Challenge, Day 3

In the interest of literacy and literature.

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The Jonathan Wolfman Book Cover Challenge, Day 2

In the interest of literature and literacy....

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The Jonathan Wolfman Book Cover Challenge

In the interest of promoting literacy.

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Jello Day

"Dad..."

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Indifference: Trump is Counting on It

There are people whose lives are unaffected by the decisions and choices the can have an impact on the lives of those who are susceptible and vulnerable.

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Open-Call: The Most Idiotic Lie We Told Our Parents

Humans and Dino the Dinosaur

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From the Department of WTF

It’s a neighborhood battle that’s bad to the bone...

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‘The’ Question About Race In America: Reposted for Comment

"If the racial shit hits the fan at your house, or in your life..."

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The Question About Race in America

"If the racial shit hits the fan at your house, or in your life..."

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Rainbow Wars

I have long been an anti-advocate for those White House champagne swilling, DNC sycophants who run the Human Rights Campaign.  For them it is all about hobnobbing with the rich and famous rather than actually fighting for LGBTQ rights.

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Why You Don’t Want To Piss Off A Lesbian…

Lynnette Bradford is my heroine of the day. 

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Today Is My Birthday

I'm 73 years old today....

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Louisiana Woman Claims Meth Found in Her Groin Area Not Hers

A satirical look at current events and politics!

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Seen At Target: Now Stand Still While I Shoot You

This is a brief screed on the subject of the total stupidity of open carry laws.

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Two Men Fined for Eating Raw Squirrels to Protest Veganism

A satirical look at current events!

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University of Chicago Eliminates SAT/ACT Requirement

The University of Chicago will no longer require ACT or SAT scores from U.S. students, sending a jolt through elite institutions of higher education as it becomes the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement.

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The Non-Alcoholic Beer That Is Worth Drinking

I love beer, always have. When I was young, I associated beer with my father. He was not a big drinker, but on sunny summer days, he’d ride his motorcycle home from his office in the suburbs of Boston to our home just to have lunch with me.

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No time for Ash Wednesday? Get ‘drive-thru ashes.’

Episcopal priest Rev. Daniel Gunn spent much of his time between services administering ashes to parishioners popping into his office because they couldn't make the services that he decide to innovate a new approach: drive-thru ashes on Ash Wednesday at St. Andrews Parish

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Catherine Deneuve: It’s Okay for Men to Hit on Women

France's most revered actress Catherine Deneuve declared that men should be "free to hit on" women, condemning a new "puritanism" she claimed has been sparked by sexual harassment scandals.

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Mormon Church Leader Thomas Monson Dies

Thomas S. Monson, president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Tuesday evening at 10:01 p.m. EST at his residence in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Mayonnaise Is Disgusting and Science Agrees

A study published in Popular Science confirms that mayonnaise may not be the great condiment that you once thought, according to a group looking to ban the condiment from restaurants.

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Anarchist Teaches Patients how to Make Their own Meds

Michael Laufer has become a fixture in the growing biohacker movement ever since he published plans last year for a do-it-yourself EpiPencil...

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Female Orgasms Aren’t All That Mysterious

A new study suggests it's pretty easy to figure out what women want, and that the mystery is really all about why there is any mystery about female orgasms. Many men appear to confuse mystery with ignorance. Everything's a mystery if you are ignorant.

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Marijuana Use Reaches 30-year High

According to a new survey, the percentage of college students who say smoke marijuana on a daily basis has reached its highest peak in more than three decades. … more

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