On August 13th I put up a #ThrowbackThursday post on Facebook. It threw all the way back to March 22, 1946. That's the day Grandpa DiPoala was Honorably Discharged from the army. James DiPoala had been, in the parlance of his time, "shell shocked." That's a term that originated during World War I to describe PTSD, and my grandfather came back from WW2 suffering from anxiety, depression, tremors and the inability to speak. He di…
“So
many of my friends post about how they feel about the present economy. I
wonder how they would feel if, in the future, they were one of the
fortunate ones who was earning a lot more money. Would you still be
angry with them for having more than you? Would you still think they
should pay more than they are now? Would you still think your money
should support those who don’t have, because they aren’t ambitious as
you?” (August 24th, 201…
Don't forget this. Charlottesville. This happened in 2017. It was horrifying. Look at these faces. They literally want to kill my friends. I wrote about it in an essay called "Say No To Every Nazi."
It begins:
"Right now in Trump's America, there are Nazi-like mobs marching for their right to rid America of "defectives" and "take back their country." They wear no hoods or cloaks. They fly Confederat…
“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it was acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates I still think about Amy, the woman I Unfriended over his first bout with Democracy ten years ago. She was a friend from Diaryland , back when the blogosphere was a relatively small community. In response to …
I only learned
yesterday during the wildly successful No Kings protest that one of the latest Trumper talking points is that Liberals
are…ugly? lol. That they would even try this stance is both hilarious
and pathetic. As if the millions of normal caring “ordinary” citizens protesting this
ridiculous administration aren’t proof enough that this claim is patently
false, all it takes is looking at the lion’s share of Hollywood—movie
and TV s…
I just Unfriended my mother-in-law. I have mostly been off Facebook since October, only popping back in now and then because I miss seeing what my friends have been up to, and photos of the kids and pets and culinary creations. But. As we are all shaken, horrified, devastated by the murder of another good citizen. I checked her Facebook. Maybe there'd be pictures of the pups, I don't know. And. There was an image. It showed an array of whi…
"But you used to write about politics..." Yeah. At one time I did, yeah. Here in Blogger, back to 2012. You can find all those passionate, researched entries by searching on "politics" in the search field. In my Diaryland blog ,
I have essays from the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections--that is to say,
from the Hanging Chad to the Provisional Ballot to (sweet relief) YES WE
CAN! I don't have any entries from 2020 to July 2025 …
To be perfectly honest with you guys, I didn't really even know who Charlie Kirk was--then he died in the dumbest possible way. Apparently Charlie Kirk was on stage arguing his point on gun violence (he was all for it) when he was blown away by gun violence. Now everyone wants the flag at half-mast. That's an honor. For a guy who was, arguably, not an honorable man. Some civic leaders are refusing to do such a thing. “I condemn Kirk’s kill…
First there's the round-up of "Shittiest Twitter Takes," where I post tweets displaying the dumbest shit I have ever heard in my life. Like when Donald Trump Jr. threw himself into the Pocahontas attack on Elizabeth Warren by feigning wonder (unconvincingly) as to why people aren't protesting Disney, too. He was trying to push the idea that Disney is just as offensive as president Trump because Disney made an animated story of …
Xi'an Famous Foods to Open in Boston's Downtown Crossing
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An award-winning group of Chinese restaurants based in New York City that
is known in part for their hand-pulled noodles is expanding to the heart of
Bos...
19 hours ago
