HEALTH AND SAFETY 1. YOU SHOULD GROW YOUR OWN COFFEE If you are concerned about manufactured chemicals in coffee DO NOT buy coffees labeled as Organic. Sorry to say a recent study by The Clean Label Project found “Roundup” in every “organic coffee” sample they tested. You are thinking, “They didn’t test MY coffee.” Well, maybe. They only tested …
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Category:Common Sense
GUEST POST from Don – Comments on News
COMMENTS ON NEWS Fox reports: “MSNBC’s Jen Psaki turns church school shooting into attack on prayer, Trump’s DC crime crackdown” Psaki intoned the long-used rhetoric that “prayer is not enough.” She thinks (wrongly) that more legislation is needed. In my experience (50 years of watching politics), it is clear that legislation is not enough either. There have been at …
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Wednesday Wisdom – September 17, 2025 Edition
GUEST POST from Don – Time
TIME Whilst most of the US is currently concerned with Daylight Saving Time, I am thinking of something else. I recommend you take your time reading this post. It is a bit heady. I DO know why time is divided into such crazy measurements of hours, minutes, and seconds. There are excellent reasons to maintain that usage … …
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GUEST POST from Don – Temptation…Avoiding It
TEMPTATION … AVOIDING IT How to AVOID temptation the easy way … Psychology Today has an article written by Andrea Polard, PsyD. Her article has seven (7) steps listed below (parentheses mine): 1. Simplify with a Plan2. Prioritize3. Implement a Routine4. Outsource5. Satisfice (be content with good enough)6. Replenish the Source (you)7. Go Sideways (do the wrong …
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Tuesday Truths – September 9, 2025 Edition
TRUTHS ABOUT TRUTH STANDARD WARNING: PULL UP YOUR BIG GIRL/BIG BOY KNICKERS BEFORE ENTERING, SO THEY DON’T GET IN A TWIST. IF YOU ARE OPPOSED TO COMMON SENSE AND TRUTH, GO NO FARTHER. LAST WARNING!
GUEST POST from Don – Family Leave Policy
FAMILY LEAVE POLICY Many propose you are in charge of your own body, until you want to keep your baby. Then it is everyone else’s problem. However, if you choose to become pregnant, that is not everyone else’s problem to solve. Congratulations! As in centuries past it is part of human generations, and in my era there were supposed …
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GUEST POST from Don – Without PBS
WITHOUT PBS We’ve survived without it before. We surely can again. Growing up a bit ago in the foothills of mid-Pennsylvania, we never could get a clear NET Television signal on UHF. In fact, only rarely could we even get a show like “Sheri Lewis and Lambchop,” or Bob Keeshan’s “Captain Kangaroo”…. For some reason “Romper Room” came …
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GUEST POST from Don – Strange Headlines
STRANGE HEADLINES I have a mantra (why not!): “Lying is bad, truth is good.” The following are not about either, per se, but about ??wacky headlines?? purporting to be “news.” AP had this one: “Man with mental health issues found naked in Minnesota Capitol, raising new security concerns.” What about this “raised new security concerns?” Was it that …
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GUEST POST from Don – I Didn’t Know That!
Hey, I didn’t know that!! 1. Rule #1: Do NOT take Social Security benefits at age 62. 65% of males and 76% of females aged 62 will live to age 78. Why is that significant? That is the age when taking Social Security at age 62 will start losing you money. The loss becomes larger every year thereafter so that …
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