Today is Melanie Bajakian’s birthday. I absolutely love this woman. She and her husband John are the owners of the Buckhorn Steakhouse and the Putah Creek Café. That isn’t what I want to talk about right now, but I will bring this up later. This...
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Our idiot president swallowed his dog whistle during a full-throated, third-time's-the-charm statement on the violence in Charlottesville. He ditched the teleprompter and spoke from his bloated gut to endorse some 'very fine people' who hang with the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
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Brush down and clean your outdoor grill. There is still plenty of time for grilling outdoors! This recipe features fresh corn, fresh bell peppers, and Lightlife Italian Sausage. You can use whatever sausage you favor. It is easy to make, looks great when taken off...
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Absorbine Jr. as a metaphor of modern life? Sure. When I was a boy, AJ was used for a lot of things — cuts, scrapes, bug bites, sore muscles. In my houses, it still is. The label says differently. Lawsuits, I am sure, and perhaps...
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They want me dead. They want to throw me into a heap with all people of color, Muslims, gay people and anybody else who doesn’t fit into their tiny, Judeo-Christian white, patriarchal world. Then they want to douse us with gasoline and watch our dead bodies burn.
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I’m just old enough to remember monthly air raid siren drills, although at the time, I didn’t really understand what they meant, I only understood that they terrified me. I’d run and hide whenever they sounded. Everybody in the room who’s also old enough to...
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A little war would go a long way to cement China’s claims to the South China Sea If Donald Trump was in the finals of my celebrity apprentice television show, “The Apprentice White House,” the ongoing “Fire and Fury” debacle would be hard to trump...
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Today I read that a little boy named Gabriel Taye of Cincinnati, Ohio hanged himself with his necktie. It angers me and saddens me at the same time to think that an eight year old child has to see suicide as his only way out. Is this what the world has become? If this is the direction we're moving in, what will the future be like?
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On the August 3, 2016 episode of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough reported that a foreign policy expert told him that in a one hour discussion with then-candidate Donald Trump, Trump asked him three times why we couldn’t use nuclear weapons. That chilling...
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