Category: mad as hell
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It’s a Swiftie world
I’m going to sound like an old man yelling at the clouds, or then guy telling the neighbor kids to “get off my lawn” but I have to vent…
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If I could not turn back time.
I hate Fall Back. I hate Spring forward. I hate adjusting the clocks every six months. I hate gaining than losing an hour of sunlight. I hate losing, then gaining an hour of sleep time. I hate the entire concept of “daylight time“. I hate the entire concept of “standard…
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That moment when you realize that your life is worth less than a lobbyist’s dollar
We had a lockdown situation at my school yesterday, and it wasn’t a drill.
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Rob weighs in on Uvalde
Until our society decides to take mental health seriously; until we kick the gun lobbyists out of Washington DC, FOREVER; and until we as a people learn to love our children even more than we love our guns…THIS WILL NOT STOP.
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813.5 days later
It was a good run, but for the first time since Covid-19 hit the United States, I have tested positive. Thankfully, I’m vaccinated, and these later variants seem to be more contagious, but less severe. I’ve been coughing, congested and generally run down; but that’s about it I haven’t been…
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Covid fatigue
We’re all scared of Covid. And I think we all know that working class Americans aren’t paid enough money for what we do. But I can’t continue to sustain this level of paranoia and fear we’ve had for 22 months and counting. It’s just too much on the human psyche.
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faster, higher, stronger?
I used to love watching the Olympic Games. I still love the athletic competition, don’t get me wrong. i think over the last few years, I’ve gotten really frustrated over NBC‘s coverage of the games. I swear, they don’t show anything unless its an event in which the US is…
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when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
I took a page out of her book: after warning her several times to stop the name-calling, I told her that I would continue this conversation when she was ready to talk like an adult.
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…and into the fire?
This is the second part of a two-part entry. When I originally wrote part one, I had a decidedly different article in mind for part two. Given today’s events, it seemed entirely appropriate to re-visit this entry. Click HERE to read part one. The Auteur and I were up late…
Rebuilding Rob 