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Help Make Grocery Shopping Worse!

Your application to join the elite team of customers who make going to the supermarket a most special kind of Hell has been received (for…

Defeat Low Self-Esteem!

Self-esteem is the opinion you have of yourself. If that opinion is low, you will have problems getting motivated and being successful. Fortunately, a poor…

How to Make Congress Work Again

There’s gridlock in Congress. Why? In short, the answer is that neither party, especially one of them, seems inclined to reach over the aisle to…

Repeal and Replace

When the 18th Amendment to the American Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, became law, what happened? A colossal epidemic of violence, corruption and…

Have a Trumpless Day

First, check the back of your closet or a bureau drawer for something bought or given to you before 2015; the graduation wristwatch that merely…

Improving Trump’s Lies

If the President of the United States continues lying, Alec Baldwin made that Access Hollywood tape twelve years before he played Trump on SNL.  Baldwin…

Taking the Guilt Out of Christmas

By Elaine Kendall 25 December 2017 The first slight waves of holiday guilt begin before Halloween, usually causing only a passing frisson or two of…




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