There are times I like Joe Rogan and there are times I don’t. His interview with Dr. Phil is a perfect example of when I don’t like him.
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Merry Christmas to you and your people
Today is Christmas, the one day a year we celebrate the birth of Baby Jesus by buying material things for the people we love and present these material things to them while eating food none of us should be eating. Merry Christmas! This Christmas is special to me because I don’t remember last Christmas. I was […]
Continue ReadingA lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving
Today is Thanksgiving. It’s the one day a year we Americans are required by federal law to overeat, watch football, and think about what we’re thankful for. I have a lot to be thankful for. I’m married to the greatest woman in the world. The life we have together is pretty awesome and continues to get […]
Continue ReadingI’m extremely thankful to have health insurance
I’m so, so thankful I have health insurance. I received a statement in the mail from the University of Maryland Medical Center for the surgery to remove part of my large bowel last month. Because I have health insurance, my out of pocket cost for the whole thing was zero. I’m lucky to have health insurance. […]
Continue ReadingI was mentioned in an article on Rollingstone.com
A long, long time ago, I was at my local Walmart after work and noticed a t-shirt in the men’s department that looked a lot like a Nazi Death’s Head, a Totenkopf. I took a picture of it with my Motorola Razr flip-phone. When I got home, I compared the photo I took at Walmart to an […]
Continue ReadingHappy Fourth of July
Today is the Fourth of July, the anniversary of when our ancestors declared their independence from Great Britain. According to my calculations, we’ve been our own country for 88,388 days or more plainly put, 242 years. My ancestral origins My mother’s side of the family has been here since the beginning. Knowing them like I think I do, they were […]
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