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Fast Food Follies

Fact: fast food MAY not be good for you. Fact: some fast food ingredients MAY be bad for your health. Fact: the American food chain MAY have policies/procedures that increase the questionability of ingesting fast food. Fact: employees at fast food franchises do not have livable wages. Opinion: Advertising Sucks! One or more of those statements MAY get me in trouble. But the Salope du jour…

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Vote for my wife! (Please?)

originals.inkedmag.com/2025/karen-kowalski Trying to get her into the finals. Thanks in advance.

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Two Plus Months

Away from this blog, and I’m wondering if ranting about anything is worth it. (spoiler: there isn’t). But I came into this medium with no expectations. Consider the source – me. Looking at the past months, and my interactions on social media, I’ve been self-censoring. Not out of fear of offending, but more of “I’m tired of trying to teach the pig to speak.” Fact: there are plenty of pigs (and…

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Well, we got her into the top twenty! Now it’s time to vote (again 🤬) for the ‘fabulous fifteen’. (Might start calling this May Madness). So, apologies for asking once again for your FREE vote! And thank you in advance.

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Closing The Coffin Lid On This Year

Well, almost. Ten days to go. Most (?) folk seem to be in a positive mood; could be the holidays, could be post-election coping. Always been a ‘Hey! Come back with my glass!’ kind of guy. So, while I can take pleasure from seeing others happy (pseudo-happy), I also stay aware that history repeats itself far too often. Never attribute to malice what can be blamed on stupidity. Or something like…

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An experiment with ChatGPT #2 (fully human response)

Dear (deity of choice), I completely suck at writing! I’m even embarrassed to be making this response. But truth will out, and I must prostrate myself in humility. (and crib unashamedly from the AI) Title: Ed Kowalski is a useful idiot. Starting this blog in 2013, due to getting laid off, I probably made some valid points. I may have made some long-ish posts. I have resisted spouting monkey…

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An experiment with ChatGPT

(Written completely by ChatGPT. And better than anything I could have come up with. 😡 Which makes me a senior editor now! 💩😎) Title: The National Media: A Broken System in Need of Accountability It’s 2024, and we’re still trapped in the same cycle of misinformation, sensationalism, and biased narratives spun by the national media. From so-called “breaking news” stories that are anything but…

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Lovers v. Likers ❤️ v. 👍

Enjoying my morning ritual of coffee (Tim Hortons, currently) and a classical music channel on the satellite TV. I could listen to the local PBS (Politburo BullShit) FM station, if I need a dose of an incurable, wasting disease. I like classical music, among other styles. But I got to pondering the phraseology that describes people who follow certain styles. ‘Lovers of classical music’ becomes…

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What Would (could) We Do Without The Media?

Settin’ here on a comfortable Sunday morning, abusing my brain cell (singular, meant) with the talking head shows. Of them all, I believe ABC is the worst, with their dramatic attempt of a ‘countdown’ to the US election. Here’s a more important countdown – the Super Bowl is one hundred and forty days away. These schmucks keep touting the date, but anyone paying attention, no one knows who the…

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Olympic Circus

If there were an event for blogging, I’d come in thirty-fifth, from a field of twenty-four competitors. Every two years, we (the planet) display the current crop of trained seals. I mean, athletes. Breathless commentary about the dedication, wash-waah, from equally self-important broadcasters. For the most part, the usual suspects remain the leaders. Why? Because that’s where the money is. Was.…

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Low Emotional Intelligence 😜

Instead of DEI, this terminology came up on my LinkedIn account (yes, that’s suspicious enough). But, fool that I am, I clicked on it. Now, I could give an itemized review of their bullet points, or I could point out their main fallacy with regard to their intended audience: IT technical professionals. This is that the ‘touchy-feelie’ cadre believe that the IT gits (myself included) care about…

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Witticisms From The Witless

Too much reading, not nearly enough comprehension. I really, really, should spend less time with text(s). Admittedly, for my personal edification (the definition, which implies intellectual or moral improvement) – neither may apply here; how does one measure this ‘potential’ improvement, especially when the measurement involves the subject matter? To the best of my knowledge, it’s an…

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A Speck, A Smidge, A Smudge, Or A Statement

Navel gathering this morning, coffee on the side, sans everything bagel. Searching for existentialism within a finite construct; aka, life. To wit: What, if anything, does a being’s sum of life constitute or contribute? I use the word ‘being’ so to not limiting this discussion to plain old humanity. (“Consider the birds.” IYKYK). Also, ignoring the trite ‘why are we here’ question. Just beyond…

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A Day Late And Seven Dollars Short

Pardon moi, for not posting last month. But the sum of it is – is what I would’ve said last month is just as valid today (March 4, 2024 BR {before Revelations}). Too many ‘interpretive’ coincidences with my personal favorite part of the Bible. The whole fixation with the number 7; “7 Churches of Asia Minor” in Türkiye Ephesus Church. The church, whose ruins in Ephesus in Izmir, occupy an…

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Central Casting Clowns

Once upon a time (always wanted to start a post with that 😁), hollyweird had this thing called central casting. Each major studio kept a running list of people to act quietly in the background. Nowadays, they get folk from there and put them into ‘leading’ roles on game shows and ‘reality’ tv. [I’ll include crime reenactment shows too.] My insignificant rant addresses the insufferable…

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Now Then, Now Then, Wot’s All This Then?

What’s holding a record, when I just turn around and set another? Life truly gets in the way of life. Or existence. Or existential existence. Sheeple busy, nom-nom, shit, sleep, repeat. And for what? What is (if any) the goal? Gather the most gold? Power for the sake of power? Create the world’s largest ball of bellybutton lint? If you take stock of your life today (whatever it is), and imagine…