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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/15/22 – INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EIGHT BILLION!

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Eight billion, that’s an 8 with 9 zeroes behind it; 8,000,000,000. On November 15, 2022, world popuon reached that number, so the United Nations decreed that we celebrate INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SEVEN BILLION! The 8 billionth customer didn’t win any valuable prizes, but that’s the UN for you, all fact-finding committees and non-binding resolutions, but …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/14/22, INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB DAY!

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Before October 14, 1878, the popular illustration for a good idea was a candle burning above one’s head, nowhere near as clear a visual as the one we celebrate on  NATIONAL INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB DAY! Like many things associated with Thomas Edison, he got all the credit for the little glass globes that did nothing …

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OLD SLIP STATION, HIPPY COPS, A BLACKSMITH, AND THE ROOSEVELT DESK

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It was 1972, when 205 Mulberry Street was Building Maintenance headquarters for The New York City Police Department, and Police Headquarters was a few bocks away at 240 Center Street, a building whose purpose had outgrown it, and was in the process of being replaced by the nearly-completed 1 Police Plaza. I was 19 and …

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WEEK #195 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 10/2/20 TO THURSDAY, 10/8/20

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Quote of The Week: “We need to take away children.” On the glass half full front, if you survive the Trump Era, you will be a firsthand witness to the most bizarre and disruptive episode in American history, in what seemed almost a national suicide attempt, electing Donald Trump as President. That’s of no help …

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WEEK #175 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 5/15/20 TO THURSDAY, 5/21/20

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Quote of The Week: “I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group, morbidly obese, they say.” – Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi reacting to Trump’s announcement that he has been taking hydroxochloroquine to …

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WEEK #170 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 4/10/20 TO THURSDAY, 4/16/20

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For most of the country, Week #170 of the Trump Era was a blur. No, not the usual blur of cyclonic imbecility that Trump normally throws our way every single day, but the numbing sameness of every day as the nation settled into its 3rd week (or is it the 4th?) of enforced home-isolation. Is …

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WEEK #123 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY 5/17/19 TO THURSDAY, 5/23/19

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Unfortunately, Trump Era weeks aren’t something that truly end, where you can breathe a sigh of relief and say “Phew, is it over?” Nope, because the very next day brings another series of train wrecks, courtesy of the craziest president outside of a Stanley Kubrick movie. Donald Trump began Week #123 in office on Friday …

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WEEK #114 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 3/15/19 TO THURSDAY, 3/21/19

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So the question, as always with President Now What?, is which outrage to address first, and Week #114 of the Trump Era was no different. Might as well start with a capitalized and exclamation-pointed “VETO!”  for Trump’s first time use of his presidential veto power, which he exercised to veto Congress’s own veto of his …

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WEEK #106 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 1/18/19 TO THURSDAY, 1/24/19

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Good News/Bad News: The Good News? It was President Trump’s Second Anniversary in office this week. The Bad News? It was President Trump’s Second Anniversary in office this week.  With glasses half empty (or half full), who can blame us if we ration our optimism like 30 year-old Scotch when contemplating what 2 more years of …

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WEEK #103 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 12/28//18 TO THURSDAY, 1/3/19

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The year changed in Week #103 of the Trump Era, so Happy New Year. Your government is still shut down but it’s shut down with a different number on the year, 2019.  On just his second New Year’s Eve as our President, Donald Trump set a record, numbers like nobody has ever seen before. Nobody, …

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