I went to the drugstore to buy a box of Claritin-D 24. I can’t say I’m miserable during allergy season, but my runny nose is annoying. The pharmacist asked me if I would like the generic version of Claritin which was less than half the price. She said it was the same drug with the same effects. “Why the difference in cost?” I asked, knowing the answer. “They don’t advertise,” she said. Years ago, I took Lipitor for high cholesterol (it runs in the family) and then I switched

Taylor Swift pressed sexual assault charges against DJ David Mueller who groped her at a photo shoot. That in itself is not remarkable unless you know that most women are groped and they don’t fight back. They take the blame for it because, well, they’re women. In the trial, Swift was aggressive and straightforward in her testimony. She said after the trial, "I want to thank Judge William J. Martinez and the jury for their careful consideration, my attorneys Doug Baldridge,

Watching trump parley (The term written as "parlay" on the Pirata Codex was known as a right in the Code of the Pirate Brethren, set down by Morgan and Bartholomew, that allowed any person to invoke temporary protection and brought before the captain to "negotiate" without being attacked until the parley is complete) with the Democrats through the White House window, I felt like an intruder. I should’ve been invited in. After all, trump works for me. He’s not my president, bu

The water temperature off the coast of Florida is 88 degrees. Is that normal? It never gets much above 70 degrees in Long Island Sound, so 88 seems like bath water to me. It must be even warmer near the equator and that’s the kind of thing that adds force to hurricanes. I’m not a climatologist but I don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing, as the song goes. It seems to me that a little common sense is in order here. We all agree. Nobody has the

This is, of course, another one of trump’s brilliant ploys to keep his hypocritical hater posse, his base, happy. How do you keep a bunch of racist, frightened, ignorant so-called “good Christians” happy? Give them something while giving them nothing. The fake president sets up the termination of DACA so he can blame congress for killing it or keeping it, whatever they decide. Take the wall. It’s not trump’s fault the United States Congress won’t approve it. He wants it. He