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Another Ultimate Warrior
The July 4th holiday already felt a little squirrely this year, what with the SCOTUS on the rampage, stripping away more rights than King George ever…
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The only place I've ever seen a ghost...
July 4th is nearly here.....our nation's Independence Day. It's easy for forget that our "Founding Fathers", the famous dudes with the funny wigs that…
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Jul 1
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"Maybe if a woman was in charge at the DOJ?..."
There was a whole lot of crazy to digest yesterday. From thrown dishes to some seriously batshit backseat driving, to the almost casually tossed off…
Tom Flannery
Jun 30
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We not so respectfully dissent.....
Free column today. Please subscribe if you like this sort of thing, because I can’t do this without my subscribers. Three columns a week, on just about…
Tom Flannery
Jun 27
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"A cavalcade of Republicans..."
These January 6 hearings are surreal. A cavalcade of Republicans are pulling up a chair and detailing a myriad of felonies committed by the former…
Tom Flannery
Jun 24
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"It's not big, it's large..."
The problem with being a writer is that when you are not writing you feel like a lazy sod. Mostly you are not writing because you can't think of…
Tom Flannery
Jun 22
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"Make the peace..."
Father's Day gets complicated when your Dad is gone. It doesn't matter how long it's been. Things come rushing back as the day progresses. All the…
Tom Flannery
Jun 20
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Snoop and Diet Coke and Oral Roberts and virtual birthday cards
I can't sleep. It's way-too-early-o'clock and I'm up and listening to old Lyle Lovett records and feeding the dogs and waiting for the promised sun to…
Tom Flannery
Jun 17
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Office Space and Spinal Tap
Every day dueling articles appear in my newsfeed. One declares that remote work is deader than crypto. We simply HAVE to return to the office…
Tom Flannery
Jun 15
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Two years ago this happened...
Two years ago this happened. It seems a lifetime ago. People are still marching for what they should already have 700+ days later. Not much has changed…
Tom Flannery
Jun 14
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"Steve Kornacki and his magic ouija board..."
It was just a few hours after news of yet another mass shooting, this time in Western Maryland, came out. Three more people dead, this time at a…
Tom Flannery
Jun 10
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Pooh Corner
There was a spot on the hill in Dunmore.....a creek set up like an amphitheater......surrounded on all sides by rocks you could jump from. The water was…
Tom Flannery
Jun 8
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