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Queegian Rant

By jxmartin on Mon, 06 Apr 2026

Queegian Rant After watching a two-hour verbal rant by the President of the United States, threatening to destroy Iran’s bridges, power plants and...

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Tossing tea bags into the harbor

By jxmartin on Sun, 29 Mar 2026

Tossing tea bags into the harbor. Several million Americans gathered together yesterday for “No kings” rallies. There was not a single violent...

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I am an African American

By jxmartin on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

“I am an African American” In a now famous speech, at the Berlin Wall, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy issued the iconic phrase “Ich bin ein...

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Kindness from those around us

By jxmartin on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

Kindness from those around us We were attending a production of Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap,” at the Gulfshore Theater in Naples, with friends Mike...

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Thanks, Insert. I have always

Posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2026

Thanks, Insert. I have always enjoyed the British use of understatement to emphasize a ooint:)

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Any good magician will have

Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2026

Any good magician will have the audience focus on shiny baubels. like a golden white house addition, or other baubels, while the other hand picks your pocket. We have also found out that if a large number of people watch a certain propaganda...

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Short answer. "It is."

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Short answer. "It is." Thanks for reading and commenting. We are who we are now. We maybe whom we thought we were in our past. We hope that we will be what we aspire to be in the future. And in the greater scheme of things, no one will...

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That is a

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025

That is a good observation,Insert. And norrmally, I would employ a summery like this as a denouement at an ending. What I wanted to do, was to clear and set aside a whole matrix of succeeding families, who are actually real...

Posted in Vancouver- City of Adventurers. Ch. # XXI

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Airy,

Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Airy,

I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.

Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...

Posted in Agism or chicanery?

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We do Insert, but sometimes

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(

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Interesting sketch, Paul. I

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...

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Thoughtful piece, Penny. I

Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023

Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?

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Great portrait of the lads

Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023

Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.

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Interesting observation, Ewan

Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...