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No-holds-barred commentary on the political arena.

Family Dynamic
So, Sgt/Cpl Blondie (as of this Monday to be College Freshman Blondie, hopefully over the next seven years to metamorphose into Dr. Blondie, DV...

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The Empty Lands
Being that I am writing away on the book every moment that I can, this means a lot of computer time, building intricate castles of conversations an...

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The Cubicle Farm
So, last week I was back at the Enormous Corporate Behemoth, for about the fourth time in a year. I was guessing that the temp service staff wa...

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Shi Tzu Happens
We’re still working on that whole housebreaking concept with Spike, the Weevil I Know Nothing Of, or as Sgt/Cpl. Blondie calls her, “The Po...

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In the Season of Butterflies
Funny old world, that… what with everything else going on in the world, this part of south Texas is being overrun with… butterflies, mo...

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Soooo, What About That Book?
It’s going rather well, which is the reason I have not posted much over the last week…umm, since being let go from the last installment of...

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Just Call Me Martha
This is what I have been doing on weekends for the past couple of months, in the name of a more beautiful and dog-proof backyard, with really ra...

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A Taste of the Good Stuff
This is tasty sample of the latest book, tenatively titled “To Truckee’s Trail”, the one for which I have a complete proposal al...

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Adventures in Unemployment
Well, this is one of these good-news, bad news things— I was let go this afternoon from my latest job. I am wondering it it isn’t a ...

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Cats & Dogs
(The following is one of those e-mail things that go around: it just seemed to be an interesting coincidence that a friend sent it to me, ju...

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Miko Has Been Found
So Max and I are taking our evening constitutional and we’re walking in the empty lots behind Chief’s row and there’s this ca...

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