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Don Harrold
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Makes you wanna drink, doesn't it?
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Father, grandfather, socialist by necessity
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Don Harrold
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Makes you wanna drink, doesn't it?
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Don Harrold
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Actor son is in a production of The Sound of Music and they are speeding through it with every performance. I can't decide if it's a function of having kids in the cast or an audience demographic that needs an early bedtime.
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Don Harrold
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Late stage capitalism in a single photo.
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Don Harrold
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We now have a new calendar: the Corporate calendar. In a little less than a month will be the arrival of Starbucks Autumn. Celebrate!
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Don Harrold
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As a judge of Elections whose polling place is in a church, I can confirm. People are genteel, but yes, there are certainly a few barbed looks. Me? The kids are alright.
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Don Harrold
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Welp, yeah.
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That was Hubert Humphrey.
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Don Harrold
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Thank God you're not a neurosurgeon. BTW, can I sit in your lap and tell you my Christmas wishes?
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Don Harrold
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It was legit laugh aloud funny. Hold onto your copy since it's liable to be banned again. Dammit.
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Don Harrold
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Just read your bio...of course you did.
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Don Harrold
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And I learned something new. BTW, did you ever read "1601"? Other end of the spectrum...
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It's a profound and brutal piece. Twain actually instructed that it not be published until after his death.
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Don Harrold
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Twain's "The War Prayer" will forever and always be my favorite piece of literature.
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She is an absolutely despicable person. And I'm not even from the UK.
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To be fair, the first 150 pages is just a bunch of deservedly ignored hacks congratulating themselves for publicly participating in a circle-jerk. The last 750 pages are legit scary Nazi wet dream.
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Don Harrold
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Yep.
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Don Harrold
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Never hash your tag.
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Don Harrold
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Honestly, it really comes down to setting aside all previously accepted notions of "nice" and releasing your inner asshole. Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" is actually quaint in its context of an agrarian society with a limited government.
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Don Harrold
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John Robert's telling Roger Taney, "hold my beer".
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Don Harrold
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Encourage this. Seriously. BTW, if they actually want to make films, they don't necessarily have to go to film school.
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Don Harrold
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Unfortunately, the frogs were silent but the crickets have been lovely. So, at least I regret missing the frogs.
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Don Harrold
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So, your thoughts?
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I see a connection now between slow-walking immunity and the "no tax on tips" promise.
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Honestly, good for you then. I am presently on my back porch awaiting the opening movement of the Frog Symphony.
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Don Harrold
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Christ, you sound like my daughter when she was 14. FWIW, I sometimes actually flared my nostrils around her friends just to embarrass her.
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Don Harrold
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Riiight...
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Laptop, Hunter, reckless, eliminate Personally, I won't watch. Nothing of any merit and folks on both sides are gonna say their guy did great. Gonna sit on the porch, sip whiskey and listen to frogs. But the Jalapeño moonshine sounds like a banger.
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Don Harrold
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My wife and younger son are en route home and as is custom, I follow the flight progress via flightaware. That said, the site must have crackerjack IT folks because the last thing that I need to see is no airplane icon when I check in.
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Don Harrold
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It's a function of our time that I can think of seven candidates for your comment.
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Actor son is playing the Austrian Nazi, Herr Zeller, in a production of Sound of Music". He and Rolf, the teen Nazi, refer to themselves as the Gestabros. Now when I see pix of Patriot Front rallies, that's gonna rattle around in my head.
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Don Harrold
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Oh my God, that was you?!
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Had the young granddaughters overnight and through the day. Got them out of the mid-afternoon funk with a rousing rendition of "Lollipoop, Lollipoop, oh lolly Lollipoop, Lollipoop! Bah dum dum *fart*" Poop makes everything better.
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Hallmark moment. And that one didn't give me a run for my money. (FWIW, all three survived and are now kinda well adjusted, although one describes himself as "morally flexible")
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Don Harrold
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Remember this day when you get a phone call from the state trooper, informing you that your kid was clocked speeding > 100mph.
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Don Harrold
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Hey, it ain't Nickelback. Take the win.
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Don Harrold
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Ah yep.
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Beautiful. Whenever I wonder about the mercies of a loving God, I look at some obnoxious son-of-a-bitch and think that I would probably never have let his teenage self survive. As the father of two young men, watching them and their friends was better than Netflix.
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Don Harrold
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In the alternative, just start flaring your nostrils when talking to her peers.
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There's a whole of things that you can do to return the favor to 16 year old teens. When you use the credit or debit card to buy something when she's with you, very loudly and publicly celebrate when the card reader responds with "Approved". Pump your arms, jump, milk it and then watch.
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Don Harrold
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Thinking that maybe it's time to start teaching basic probability to first grade granddaughter as I hear her tell her preschool sibling about this coin toss thing called "heads and butts".
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Don Harrold
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The newest Twilight Zone episode should be a FinBro raw dogging the flight when suddenly, the plane icon on the map suddenly disappears...
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And the flag hanging outside my garage has been down ever since. In an HOA cul-de-sac full of wall mounted American flags, the only person to comment on it was my 6 year old granddaughter. Everyone else is a fucking moron.
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Wife and son are traveling in Spain. I check my bank site to update Quicken and find something unrecognized. So, I googled it and apparently, they grabbed a bite at Spain's only Five Guys.
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The actor son is staying here while portraying the Austrian Nazi, Herr Zeller, in a production of the Sound of Music. Gotta check myself because my parting comment when he leaves the house for rehearsal is "be a good Nazi".
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Don Harrold
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Me, a rural resident, just returned home after a 4 hour drive from JFK. Motorcyclists on the Belt Expressway near there are literally insane. Never again.
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Youngest son is 6'5" with terminal case of RBF (Resting Bitch Face). Twice, evangelicals have door-knocked his neighborhood to share the gospel. But they have seen him sitting on his front porch, looked at him and kept on walking. To be fair, he looks very intimidating.
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Many years ago, I read FDR's 1938 address to Congress regarding monopolies. It began with the simplest, clearest fascism definition that I have read.
Describes this.
Evangelical Christianity and the billionaire class.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
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Don Harrold
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A joy of parenting is the embarrassment of your kids. I once jumped up and down, pumping my fist when the grocery store card reader approved my purchase, to the horror of my kids. And now, the granddaughter is on the cusp of that age... It's the little joys in life.
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Don Harrold
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I was pulled by TSA and had my bag searched. They found my wife's Distinguished Service Award from her national medical academy. I hope that they were as congratulatory to you as they were to me, on behalf of the wife. Kudos to you!
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There's chronological age, and then there's body age. They rarely coincide. My condolences. FWIW, I would probably cosplay as an Ent.
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