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Showing posts with label bad business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad business. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

ICE and violence seem to go hand in glove

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I guess they've been around for a while now, but until ICE announced that they were putting in a big ol' order for electric shock gl...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Release the kratom? What's it worth to you?

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Although I've been known to pop a mini-can of Diet Coke to jolt me out of my longing for an afternoon snooze, I've never imbibed an ...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Palantiranny

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One of the most disturbing things to emerge from the current era is the ascendancy of the tech broligarchs. Or whatever they're called t...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Office Park from Hell

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In 2024, Shunda Park "materialized and metastasized" almost overnight in the middle of nowhere on the Myanmar border. Unlike offic...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Heartbreaking. Enraging.

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I suppose I should have followed up yesterday's grim post with something a bit lighter, but, hey, in for a dime, in for a dollar. So tod...
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Monday, March 17, 2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day (to those who observe it)

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In my  Twitter bluesky profile, I say that I'd rather be in Ireland. And these days, I sometimes actually mean it, or at least kinda-s...
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Well, this sure seems worth 40 years in prison. Not!

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I am ALWAYS amazed when people are caught embezzling. What are people thinking when they keep putting their hand in the till? Oh, I suppose ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered...

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Trying to keep up with every singl god-awful thing Trump is doing is like trying to play whack-a-mole while blindfolded. It can't possib...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Anyone surprised by this?

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Twenty-some years ago, when I began driving up to Syracuse on business a few times a year, the thruway in Upstate New York was packed with W...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Yeah, but how's its bedside manner

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My husband and I used to love watching House , a show in which an eccentric, obnoxious, brilliant doctor - Gregory House (played by the terr...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

"The Temu version of a panda"

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Who doesn't love a panda? They're darling. They're fluffy. They're playful. They're cuddly. We can't get enough of t...
Monday, July 08, 2024

Wanna bet?

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I'm not much of a gambler. Oh, I buy non-winning lottery tickets, but other than that... The few times I've been to a casino, my lim...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Fake obituary pirates? These guys ought to be walking the plank

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I am a long-time reader of obituaries.  It's genetic. I believe I inherited the obituary-reading gene from my father, an avid reader of ...