musings politics 
Main Character Syndrome: Trump’s Fourth of July Spectacle
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Gen X musings politics 
Cheering for Rebels, Voting for Empires
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Gen X politics punk 
Punk Was Never Meant to Make You Comfortable
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dystopian politics 
America’s Breaking Point: How Much More Before It Snaps?
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Gen X life politics relationships 
I Didn’t Expect This From Us
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Gen X politics 
If You’re Still MAGA, This Is Why
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Gen X politics 
Trump, Imperialism, and the Collapse of American Accountability
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Gen X politics 
Why Younger Voices Matter: A Gen X Reflection
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dystopian politics 
It’s Not Left vs. Right — It’s Democracy vs. Dictatorship
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politics rants 
$300 Million for a Ballroom? We Can’t Even Afford Food.
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dystopian Gen X politics punk 
We Didn’t Grow Up on Punk Rock to Bow to Fascists
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musings politics 
Stop Pretending Both Sides Are the Same
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dystopian politics 
Checkmate: On Kirk, MAGA, and the Wrong Side of History
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musings politics 
Charlie Kirk, Political Violence, and Building a Better Future
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musings politics 
The Great Awakening of America: 2025
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musings politics 
What Will It Take for MAGA Supporters to Wake Up?
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politics 
Let It Burn: The Tower Card Moment America Needed
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politics rants 
Joni Ernst, SNAP Cuts, and the Republican War on Compassion
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politics rants 
ICE Tactics, Trumpism, and the Cowardice of a Complicit Congress
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politics rants 
Why I’m Done Playing Nice with American Fascism
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musings on the fly 

May the 4th Be With You!

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  It’s one of the greatest debates of our time, and has wounded and sometimes destroyed relationships.   I always get anxious when I meet someone new, because I know sooner or later, this question will surface. I always try to ask the inevitable question early on, because then and only then will I know if the relationship can progress.   “What is your favorite Star Wars movie?”   If my potential beau replies with any of Episodes I thru III, the chances of the relationship progressing are slim – especially…

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Alone & Rockin’ it!

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I’m sitting in my living room in one of my beloved Hello Kitty t-shirts and a pair of colorful knee socks, eating peanut butter out of an almost empty jar with a spoon; I am finding that this is one of the many joys of living alone. Let me interject here that I don’t care that I’m almost 42 and still wearing Hello Kitty – I’ll rock the shit out of it at any age thank-you-very-much.   I’m not going to make excuses for wearing things that are, as Mom-ster…

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life relationships 

Fifty Ridges of Klingon – My not so secret lust for Star Trek

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    Thank you, Gene Roddenberry, for creating the Star Trek universe and the Klingon race.   Before I met my ex-husband, I was never really into Star Trek; I had watched the movies along with The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine shows on TV, but I was far from considering myself a Trekkie. To me, Trekkies were the stereotypical ugly basement dwelling geeks. Shortly after I had met my ex, he revealed to me just how much of a geek he was – he informed me that he…

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