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    Stroke Of Luck: Friday May 16 2025 (from my written journal)

    July 2, 2025 - By 

    The following is from my written journal… as part of my occupational therapy, I’m supposed to try keyboarding. There may be typos, even using a full size keyboard. On Sunday night May 11, 2025, I had a stroke.  Full stop. I was lying on the couch, watching videos on my iPhone, holding it in my left hand. Around 9pm, my hand kept flopping over and I had to hold it up with both hands. It irritated me so I decided to go upstairs to go to bed.  Standing up, I was a little unsteady, and really had to dig deep to…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    El Rey Trompo Has $1B In Pro Malo Legal Work In The Bag

    April 12, 2025 - By 

    Post: These are just the latest legal firms to bend the knee to Trump, the king of spin and deceit. Now the Deputy Attorney General of the United States can call on his former law firm for free legal work…for evil, not the public good. And also bar Justice Department lawyers from American Bar Association events.     Four of the firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett– agreed to pledge $125m each in pro bono work to causes backed by the Trump administration. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft said it would…

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    Grade D for DOGE:  Email Terminates NEH Grant For Archeology Southwest

    April 12, 2025 - By 

    Post: How one NEH-funded group found out their grant was terminated – in an a poorly written, bellicose email that looked like spam.   Dear Friends, Well, last Thursday, April 3, after I wrote to you, we received a uniquely sourced, strangely formatted, poorly written e-mail. Ostensibly (see below) from the federal government, it was a notice of termination for our recently awarded $350,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant that funds meaningfully important expansions of the cyberSW […] Link: New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation – Archaeology Southwest

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    Stephen Miller’s Resting Big Lie Face

    April 9, 2025 - By 

    Post: When journalistic integrity is worth less than keeping your mouth shut and your paycheck coming. Fact-checking is impossible when Stephen Miller gets his Resting Big Lie Face going. His eyes show he’s only listening to the hamster wheel in his head that spits out talking points. Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to working in a sweatshop making Trump merch.   The look on Fox host Martha MacCallum’s face is priceless. Link: Stephen Miller Is Delighted Your Retirement Fund Is Tanking

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    ProtoArc XK03 Ergonomic Foldable Keyboard User Manual

    April 7, 2025 - By 

    Post: About a year ago, I picked up this useful little folding ergonomic Bluetooth keyboard, the Seenda KTU-403. But it’s apparently been discontinued, and some of the multifunction keys are starting to spit out weird characters. Fortunately, I’ve stumbled on to some weird key combos so that I can keep using them – they aeem to have different emulator settings or something. Meanwhile, can’t find the manual, scuffled into a drawer or online. Fortunately, after searching for the model number, the manual for a very similar product popped up, probably made by the same manufacture under another marque. So hokay,…

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    BREAKING: NEH Grants Terminated – Archaeology Southwest

    April 3, 2025 - By 

    Post: Dammit, #HANDSOFF the National Endowment for the Humanities! One of my non-political interests is archaeology – but now that’s political, too. “Preservation Archaeology Today for 4/3/25: NEH grants terminated; IMLS disbanded; Smithsonian, Interior told to whitewash history; the importance of Indigenous curators; Chaco roads; SunZia case update; podcast, jobs, internships, events, & more.” Link: BREAKING: NEH Grants Terminated – Archaeology Southwest

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    Musk not only billionaire pumping cash into the most expensive court race in U.S. history

    March 31, 2025 - By 

      Post: Do political ads really influence elections? Don’t most voters tune them out? Or do yard signs and radio/tv ads actually have impact? In Wisconsin, political parties can steer unlimited amounts to candidates. State Sen. Jeff Smith, a Democrat and a minority leader, called the spending frenzy “obscene.” “There’s no reason why campaigns should cost as much as they do,” he said.   Link: Musk not only billionaire pumping cash into the most expensive court race in U.S. history