Butchblog

An occasional missive

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  • A Sick Person

    I wanted to take a break from writing about the orange monster, but he just won’t get out of my head. The man ruins everything—even the Olympics—with his small mind…


  • A Sad Clown

    And a dangerous one I didn’t watch the ‘state of the union’ address. Bev and I never even considered it. We knew it would be awful and ugly, which by…


  • Two TV Shows

    I watch too much TV. And I’m not ashamed of it. Some medical professionals claim that watching too many hours of television is bad for your brain, that the gray-matter…


  • Know Your Enemy

    It’s time to stop pretending we can all get along. The divide has become too deep, and too mean. I’ve never been one to “turn the other cheek.” All that…


  • Writing on the Inside

    I knew I was being played. It was the journals they were after. The aim was to score a free notebook, not to be in a writing group. What I…


  • It Can’t Happen Here

    Or Can It? I watched a “60 Minutes” episode last night about three 80-year-olds who were born in the death camps of the Nazis in 1945. It was a story…


  • A Small Good Thing

    With apologies to Ernest Hemingway I was not into it at first. Seemed overly friendly, even intrusive. I mean, you don’t do that with strangers, do you? My wife, Bev,…


  • Bad Bunny vs the Evil Empire

    That trump fellow, you know, the one whose brain is made of Diet Coke and McDonald’s french fries. Yeah, that one, the clown conspirator, the one with all the make-up…


  • An Old Man Surfing

    Let’s start here: each morning that I wake up and I’m still breathing and mobile, I count as a win. After that, I go check out the surf from our…


  • I Cast You Out

    I realize that lately I’ve allowed myself to be caught in the spider web of horrible news from horrible people. And I’m not going to allow them to do that…


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