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Life Explorations of a Suburban Nerd and Her Nerd Husband

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Rock the Vote

Okay Party People, we have a vote coming up in California and you need to get a jump on it. A few people have asked me lately for whom and what I’m voting in the upcoming California election.  At first,... Continue Reading →

The Politics of Football

Use your pulpit wisely if you have one.

I’m Not Sleeping

  I didn't think I would be writing again so soon, but my sister-in-law and brother-in-law literally just dodged bullets. Yes, they were at the country music festival in Las Vegas where a gunman opened fire.  I happened to turn... Continue Reading →

Lost Voice

This entire week, I've had laryngitis off and on. It usually strikes when I go to work, because lately work has been a bit rapey. I honestly didn't correlate the loss of my voice with the recent experiences I've had... Continue Reading →

The Irritation of the Anti-Intellectualism Movement

There is what I consider to be a strange surge in this country, led largely by people who haven’t been classically trained and/or have been taught various forms of bigotry standing against anyone brown or black, but also against intellectuals. ... Continue Reading →

False Equivalence

We've heard quite a bit recently from various outlets about "False Equivalence."  If you are unsure what that means, it is a logical fallacy wherein there appears to be an equivalence between two opposing arguments, when in fact one side... Continue Reading →

GRUBS!

Well, I found a few of these little boogers today. After getting over the initial gross out, I chatted with friends and concluded these are grubs. Now, while my chickens love them, my soon-to-be vegetable garden won't be nearly as... Continue Reading →

Trade-offs

When I was young, I began programming computers.  I think it was the summer of my 11th year that I ended up in a caste from an ice skating accident, and since I didn’t have skating practice, my mom enrolled... Continue Reading →

When Are We Going to Say It?

The leader of the United States is a virulent mix of narcissism, sociopathy, psychopathy, and scumbaggery.  He just is.  Calling him Lord Voldemort is giving him too much credit. In point of fact, many psychologists (and by many I mean... Continue Reading →

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