To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 2, 2024

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Back To Work?

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“What should I do?” It is a rare moment that my adult son asks. It is an even rarer moment that I don’t have a laundry list of mostly useless advice. But I’m stumped. Should he cancel his planned trip to the Consumer Electronics Show – the mega-convention for his industry, where he has dozens […]

Special Gifts For Special People

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Ho-ho-ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each of our Congress critters, I sent my fondest wish that from now on they receive the exact same income, health care and pensions that we average citizens get. If they receive only the American average, […]

Fat Kids

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I still remember those forced marches. Run, the PE teacher would yell, as I tried desperately to put one foot in front of the other. And I wasn’t fat [even though I thought otherwise]; I marched in parades and did splits in the mud while tossing a baton in the air. Even so, those runs […]

Why Are Republicans Killing Their Own?

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As the omicron variant threatens to inflict yet more suffering and death, it is maddening to realize how easily this next wave of the coronavirus could have been avoided or certainly mitigated if only more Americans had been fully vaccinated. And confronting that terribly obvious truth raises the most enduring enigma of the pandemic: the […]

Dying At Work In Kentucky

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BY MARC MUNROE DION In Kentucky, where the preachers are going to be busy for a while, a number of good employees died at work when a tornado hit a candle factory. Nothing closes the circle of the working life like dying at your job. Some employees are saying management wouldn’t let them leave, although […]