Life in the Slow Lane-Warm Mineral Springs, Florida

Conversations overheard while wading in the Warm Mineral Spring clockwise “loop”:

Conversation 1
75 year-old fat Ukrainian Jewish man with straw hat:
“I always get my movies from the library because it’s free.”

75 year-old fat Ukrainian Jewish man with baseball cap:
“Why don’t you watch them from your computer?

Straw hat: “My signal is very weak.”

Baseball cap: “Why don’t you call Comcast? They can fix it.”

Straw hat: “Nothing you can do in my situation.”

Baseball cap: “Really? Comcast can’t help you?”

Straw hat: “No, because Comcast requires a cable.”

Baseball cap: “You have Internet with no cable? Why don’t you get cable?”

“Because I have to PAY for cable!!!”

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Trump’s Inauguration Speech: A Triumph of American Populism

Never in my lifetime have I heard a Presidential Inauguration message so directly address the American people and challenge the political status quo as when Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Continue reading →

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Eulogy For My Father

Note: my friend Dean Arnold just posted an article about his Dad on Facebook, and it got me to thinking I should honor my own Dad online as well.  So here is the eulogy I said at his funeral some 16 years ago now.  I still miss him.

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