By examining the cover photo many readers might readily assume what appears to be the obvious; returning glamor to something classy that has surrendered to the elements and has long since lost its sparkling gloss. Indeed, the visual of a rusting inoperable old transportation machine would be enough of a teaser to pique the interest…
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Lunacy Commission USA redux
Elections have consequences. When future generation historians set about to describe life in America in February 2025 CE, it will not be inaccurate to say those of us who were alive and fully awake found ourselves in the midst of a surreal and frightening reality. It is very like emerging from a bizarre and dystopian…
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Marching forward into the past
The 2024 election was held, a winner has been declared, and we are preparing for big changes in government once again. In the interim since Election Day the losing ticket has undergone extensive self-postmortem examination resulting in many shrill volleys of accusations aimed at multiple individuals and causes. Blame for failure has been levied, accountability…
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Milestone 50 of an everyday practice
As some may well know, this blog is an outgrowth of the daily journal writings of the owner. When the final day’s entry of 2024 is electronically penned tonight, it will mark the year’s last first-person description of the life and times of Yours Truly in Volume 50 of my Personal Daily Journal. What keeping…
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A classic win-win showdown
College football bowl season is upon us and with it come the usual matchups between non-traditional opponents. Just about all of the lower tier bowl games will be played in the final two weeks of December. One of them has been a regular event since 2003, that being the Armed Forces Bowl played at Amon…
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Ten years of Reason Rest Stop
Sitting here and pondering its beginning, it seems like it was only a few weeks ago. It was a late autumn afternoon, specifically the 26th of November in the year 2014, that Yours Truly drove to the home of an IT friend who walked me through the process of establishing a permanent web presence with…
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America’s bizarre electoral dance
Six hundred thousand dead. That was the approximate American body count generated by a mismanaged pandemic response by Election Day 2020. That was a number high enough to matter and command the attention of enough voters to hold the executive in charge accountable at the ballot box. True to form, a majority of that same…
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What hangs in the balance
Here we are almost in the middle of October of another special year ending with an even number and we all know what that means. The date is fast approaching for all of us to get ourselves to our local voting precinct and mark a ballot in the latest “most important election of our lifetime.”…
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It is SEC football time in Oklahoma!
Along this 400+ mile stretch of Old Route 66 that winds its way through the Sooner Nation, every college football gameday from late August until early January is regarded as sacrosanct. It is not unusual in these parts for family planning of autumn and the December holidays to revolve around the Oklahoma Football schedule. Such…
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Falling in love and falling in line
What a difference thirty days makes in electoral politics. The energy, enthusiasm and elation looking ahead to Election Day are at much different levels for the two contending Presidential campaigns than they were in mid-July. At the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention the trajectory of the Blue Team as compared to their opposition could…
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