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Look on the Brightside - With Music (Reprised)

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I always have things I want to write about, that’s not the problem. But sometimes the things I want to write about seem  too philosophical,  too serious - or gloomy? - and I don't wish to inflict it on other folks at this time of the year. When this happens, I will occasionally go back in my "vast catalog" to find things that I have written about before that shook me out of a dreary place. I am in such a place and I have gone back and found something from 5 years ago this month that might do. In fact, given what is going on in the country today it's perfect! (Although admittedly the music is 5 yrs older.) Back then we were finally coming out of the pandemic but life still seemed to be beating  up on  us a little and apparently this idea popped into my feverish brain. I re-share now with the hope that you find it at least a little bit of an upper as it did – and does now – for us.    March 2021 Mrs Dear Leader and I each have a friend who is in hospice, frie...
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Solving Immigration

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  Dear Leader Takes on Immigration . . . (For Better or Worse)    ICE Detainees - CECOT Prison  El Salvador (of Kristi Noem picture fame) Hold on to your hats, this could be a doozy! Prelude I won’t go into how we have arrived at this crappy point in time because it’s a story we all know. It’s about a dysfunctional government that goes back many presidential administrations as it regards immigration (and a lot of other things.) Let’s just say, it is what it is. On the Horizon It is important that we to consider something else as we try to fix our current immigration woes: a  looming international humanitarian nightmare.  I  have written about this before -  and perhaps you have already thought about it too - so it shouldn't be a surprise. Like our current mess this is a  complex  and unpleasant topic b ut understanding it has great bearing on what we do in the coming years.  Modern Migrants Experts tell us that humans started migrat...
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Hurray for Upscale

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If you have been paying any attention at all to economic news the past few years you might be familiar with the term "K shaped" economy. The top part of the K  represents  roughly  the top 20% of  families  (really 10%) with the income that account for about 60% of all spending. As you might guess, the bottom of the K represents the other 80% - lucky us who get to divvy up the other 40%.  I'm sure I wasn't the first to notice this but I bet I was earlier than most - and I can  prove it. Here is a post from 2022 - and it had been bugging long me before that! (Things apparently haven't changed much for us  proletariat  in the intervening years.) America's Economy - of the 20%, by the 20%, for the 20% . . . Dateline: April 2022 Upscale home you want for $500,000 . . . Have you thought much about the adjective "upscale?" as it's used today? Probably not - why would you?! - but a couple recent articles in the Minneapolis Star Tribune got me thinki...
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Things That I Think I Think

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Huh, odd place to build a mental institution . . . Despite what you may think, I don't write just to bore you. Well, not intentionally. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before - I’m old and tend to repeat myself – but I write a lot: letters to the editor, this blog, long tedious emails. There was a time I even fancied myself a poet.  But mostly I  just  write to figure out what I’m really thinking.  I will often be curious about something, do some Googling (or an occasional AI search) and begin to write about it. Then as I go along, writing and thinking, thinking and writing, I will often arrive at a completely different place. Thus, you always end up getting my well developed and eloquently expressed thoughts.   Okay, maybe not always.  Anyway here’s a special post this month. The depth of winter tends to send we hearty Minnesotans into a sort of cold-induced meditative torpor (when not interrupted by whistles!) I mean what else do we have to do but hunker dow...
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