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600 words: No more, no less

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Anxiety likes numbers.

An obsession with ‘Woke’ semantics

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What’s with this word “woke?” Ask 10 different people what the word means and you may get 10 different answers. Why? Linguistics. Because the word has transfigured from its original meaning.

OTC hearing aids and more AI

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Hearing aids can be prohibitively expensive, to the point that some people will forgo them because they just cost too much and, as a result, miss out on a lot. We talked about Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) and Personal Sound Amplification Products (PSAPs) back in my June 30, 2022 column, but I have some news. As of October 2022, you can buy Over-The-Counter (OTC) hearing aids.

Sovereign citizen beliefs cost lives

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On Sunday, March 12, funeral services were held for Chase Allen who was shot and killed by police in Farmington, Utah during a traffic stop over a fake license plate. Mr. Allen identified as a so-called “sovereign citizen” and believed that he was not subject to the laws of Utah based on a flawed understanding of the U.S. Constitution and state laws.

Learning from Mexican tourists

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My husband, Peter, and I are staying in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, which is, according to a lot of folks, a tourist town.

Locked in the library

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I have a Facebook acquaintance who recently posted an insane diatribe condemning President Joe Biden, his administration and all Democrats in general for “pushing for drag queens being allowed to perform for the children in the school libraries. They support and encourage sexually explicit books talking about little boys…”

This is no time for indifference

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My maternal grandfather was from Estonia. As a child, he and his family fled the Imperial Russian pogroms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pogroms were essentially another large-scale Russian false-flag special operation alleging that Jewish citizens were responsible for the brutal assassination of Tzar Nicholas II and his Romanov family. Lenin and his Bolshevik strongmen were afraid of royalist Russian resistance. Promises made to peasants for land ownership were never fully realized and low pay and poll taxes diluted the Bolshevik promises.

Designated conference sheepdog

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I spent last week trying to be useful.

Social media: ‘Believe it or not’

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Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” is an American franchise that most of us probably are familiar with. It was started back in 1918 by Robert Ripley, as a cartoonish venture portraying bizarre events, events so strange that they tested readers’ beliefs; yet, they were weird and wacky enough to be harmlessly entertaining. Real or fake? A deer with four legs and eight feet?

Sandwich shop Spanish lessons

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My husband, Peter, is learning Spanish his own way.