The United States Is a Pariah State and Should Be Treated as Such
According to WorldAtlas, there are four criteria that make a nation a pariah state. The…
The United States Is a Pariah State and Should Be Treated as Such
According to WorldAtlas, there are four criteria that make a nation a pariah state. The United States meets all four criteria. “The first category is nations that acquire, own, or utilize weapons of mass destruction with disregard for current international treaties. The second category is nations or governments that support acts of terrorism or terrorist…
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50!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
As of today, I am officially 50 years old. For the first time in my life, I’m feeling some kind of way about my birthday. Mind you, I don’t really know what that way is, but I’m feeling it. 50 is just such a crazy number. I’m not bothered by it exactly. As my dad…
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Caring for the Depressed
I have Major Depressive Disorder. I have also been the primary caregiver for someone with depression. So, when I ran into this article, How to support someone with depression | Psyche Guides by Emma Cotterill, I was doubly interested. If it was a good guide, I wanted to help get the word out. And it…
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Utilities
I saw a headline from Barron’s that read “The L.A. Fires Have Edison Stock Plunging”. I can’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall. But it got me thinking even though I couldn’t read the article. It’s really messed up that utilities have stock prices. Utilities are necessities in modern society. Traditionally, they are…
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Four Years Later – The Insurrection
It’s been four years since the infamous insurrection at the US Capitol Building. At the time, I wrote this: We Need More Tepid Takes – Nutmegger Daily. The gist of it is that everyone else was loudly proclaiming all kinds of theories as if they were absolute truth. Meanwhile, I had no idea what to…
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I Wrote a Book Last Year-Kinda
Last year was my first year working full-time as a writer. I worked freelance for CT News Junkie and for the New Haven Independent, so I did alot of writing. But how much is “alot”? Fortunately, I’ve had to maintain a spreadsheet of all the articles I wrote for News Junkie. According to that tally,…
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Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. He first floated the idea while he was president in 2018. He thought he could do it through an executive order. He didn’t proceed with his plan then. But in 2024, he made ending birthright citizenship one of his campaign promises. He has said that his first day…
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A Look Back at 2024
2024 sucked. To paraphrase Homer Simpson in a different context, it was the suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked. It both sucked and blew, which, as Bart Simpson pointed out, is hard to do. It started out with my mental health taking a nosedive to the point where I was having suicidal ideations. That…
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Since I Gave Up Soda
10ish years ago, I gave up soda. I had an absolutely disastrous annual physical that year. My bad cholesterol was high, my good cholesterol was low, my blood pressure was high, and my blood sugar was high. I was overweight. I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in years. Between having a full-time job, a…
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Forever in Blue Jeans
There was a kerfuffle in the chess world this weekend. Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quit a tournament on Friday because the tournament officials tried to get him to change out of his jeans. He’ll be back in on Monday. The tournament decided to loosen their dress code to allow “appropriate jeans”. I find the whole…
