At a Reddit site on the Internet, a person who self-identified as a right winger asked why there were so many homeless people, poor people, struggling workers in "blue" states and cities.  My reply was that there are homeless people, … [Read more...]

An associate of mine recently went to see a dentist.  He was careful to read his insurance policy and go to its website to make certain that his dental work would be covered.  Yes, the dentist he selected and the dental practice he visited … [Read more...]

Yesterday at work, in the employee break room a friendly co-worker tells me "Trump will go down as the greatest president in our lifetime".  I assumed he was joking and made a sarcastic remark. He was not joking.  He doubled down. So … [Read more...]

I've been a homeowner for forty years. In those forty years I've had two catastrophic failures with a refrigerator/freezer; one last week and the other a year and a half ago.  The first failure occurred when the freezer door fell off as I … [Read more...]

...and that's the whole point, isn't it? Wealthy employers (and our governor) can't be bothered with mass transit and all the rest that are everyday problems for  hoi polloi.  Mass transit is for those people who were not successful … [Read more...]

Bill H.163 in the Massachusetts is a loan repayment program for certain human service workers.  It caught my attention as there was a time that I looked into employment in that field only to discover that the wages were dismal, not enough … [Read more...]