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This Is My Truth

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  Three years ago, I wrote a blog listing the many things that I was grateful for. It was an exercise in self-awareness that was good for my mind, heart, and blood-pressure. The other day I had a bit of an epiphany, and decided to do something similar, but using a different track.  There seem to be fewer truths in our world. This AI, fake news, social media driven universe we inhabit has created more questions than answers. So many “facts” that I filled my personal reality bubble with made me a happy, comfortable, and apparently naive person. Slowly this reality came crashing down like a shower of meteor strikes, breaking my secure force field and leaving an apocalyptic burning landscape across the horizon as far as the eye can see.          Hyperbolic? One-hundred percent, much like many present day headlines. But…I did firmly believe that Bill Cosby was a great man I should model myself after, Lance Armstrong was a legitimate, legendary champion, and...
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Meet My Friend, Wallace

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  Meet My Friend, Wallace      As far back as I can remember, I have loved comics of all kinds.    My parents introduced me to comic books (Justice League, Avengers) when I got my tonsils out at age 5, and thus making superheroes my first love, but, I eventually found myself checking the Worcester Telegram and Gazette after my dad finished so I could read Snoopy, Garfield, B.C, and Wizard of Id.  As I got older and my sense of humor matured, I couldn’t get enough of The Far Side or Doonesbury.  But, the gold standard will always and forevermore be (drum roll please) the Sam Watterson classic, Calvin and Hobbes.      Calvin and Hobbes is the apex.  It is what comic strips were meant to be, in my opinion, because it was so relatable for both children and parents.  His take on the over-the-top dark side of a loveable little boy and the stuffed animal/imaginary friend that acted as his conscience, was geniu...
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DOGE; Dog or God

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     It’s safe to say that Elon Musk and DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) have occupied more of our collective conscious thought in the last month than could have ever been predicted.  Check out national news, there they are.  Local news, there they are.  Twitter (X), same.  Facebook, Instagram, etc.  He’s at CPAC, the Oval Office, the Cabinet meeting, Joe Rogan.  He’s ubiquitous, and for good reason.  Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency has been tasked with cutting the fat in the federal budget.      And for some reason, whenever I read about Musk and DOGE, this is the image that pops in my head:        A more apt analogy might be Freddy Krueger performing dental work. There are issues in your mouth that need to be taken care of, but the lack of subtlety and precision by Dr. Krueger’s scissor hands ultimately do more damage to the healthy parts of the mouth in or...
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