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Goodbye, South Dakota

At 12:55 pm CDT on Friday, May 27, my status as a lifelong South Dakotan ended. I crossed the state line en route to the city in which my wife and I now live. Two of our three daughters and our granddaughter live in the university town larger than Sioux Falls.

Family was the […]

Tim May 31st, 2022 | Tags: , , | Category: Personal/Family, Politics, State and local matters | Comments are closed | |

I be officially old

Today brings proof I’m old — I’m eligible for Medicare. At least initially, though, it seems like a good thing.

My wife (who was eligible earlier this year) and I aren’t on Medicare itself, opting to purchase a Medicare Advantage insurance policy. Even then, we will be paying more than $2,000 a month less than […]

Tim September 1st, 2021 | Tags: , | Category: Personal/Family, Politics | Comments are closed | |

Speaking truth to power

Finally!

Tim January 28th, 2021 | Tags: , , , | Category: Politics, State and local matters | Comments are closed | |

Stupid is as stupid says

Once again, Trumpists, right-wingers and the like display an overabundance of cognitive dissonance in one of their latest hissy fits. This tizzy stems from President Donald Trump being banned by Twitter, Facebook and other mainstream social media sites and that some 70,000 accounts being suspended after the Capitol riot for espousing the QAnon lunacy and […]

Tim January 18th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Law, Politics | Comments are closed | |

Impeach the asshat — again

First post in three years. One effect of Trump’s American Dystopia. I’ve abandoned social media, don’t watch television news and really only scan headlines to avoid becoming furious, despondent or both.

As he nears the exit, there’s plenty of people out there who seem shocked his supporters totally fucking crazy lunatics storming the Capitol. Where […]

Tim January 12th, 2021 | Tags: , , | Category: Politics, Resist Trump | Comments are closed | |
 
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