Bayou Renaissance Man

The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Monday, February 22, 2021

Why there's no voting our way out of this

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  Last week I published an article titled simply " TINVOWOOT ", an acronym meaning "There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This...
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Memes that made me laugh 46

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  Last week's harvest. More next week. Peter
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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Sunday morning music

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  While chatting with a younger reader over the past week, I discovered to my horror that she'd never heard of Tom Lehrer .  This is, of...
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Saturday, February 20, 2021

Saturday non-snippet: Reflections on a nasty bout with COVID-19

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  Rather than put up another excerpt from a book, I thought readers might like to know a bit more about my battle with COVID-19 over the pas...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

The gun-banners' latest tactic: If you make it impossible to use a gun, then owners will have no reason not to surrender it

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  I note that Canada is broadening its gun control legislation.  The Public Safety Minister there has talked about the assumptions behind th...
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A quick word about reader comments

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  Folks, I hate playing the censor.  I really dislike having to intervene in user comments here.  However, sometimes it's necessary. Com...
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Food inflation: a growing threat to us all

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  As part of my ongoing series of articles about inflation, I'd like to consider food this morning.  It's getting harder to find for...
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

"Follow the money": what the Robinhood affair has revealed

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  Readers will recall the fuss and bother a few weeks ago, when a Reddit investing sub-forum used Robinhood and other low- or no-cost broker...
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"Unspeakable truths" about race in America

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  An interesting article examines the state of race relations in America from the perspective of a self-described "elite" African...
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Learning from medical misadventures

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  Miss D. 's and my medical misadventures continue as we try to get tested for COVID-19, and figure out how to treat ourselves at home. ...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

An expensive follow-up to a previous "Doofus Of The Day"

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  In " Doofus Of The Day 1,072 ", back in December, we read how Citibank had mistakenly paid out $885.2 million too much to credi...
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So much for "the consent of the governed"!

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  Earlier this month, a Massachusetts bureaucrat defined the way government looks at its citizens subjects . A Massachusetts climate offici...
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Medical misadventures and frustrations

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  I'm about at the point where tar, feathers and a pole begin to look like essential equipment for dealing with medical establishments a...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

More role-playing game laughs

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  A few years ago I mentioned a Dungeons and Dragons episode where a quick-thinking player outfoxed the Dungeon Master and all the other p...
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It's not the crud, it's COVID-19

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  I reported last week that I was coming down with some bug or other.  I had a couple of bad days, but thereafter things have been improvin...
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TINVOWOOT

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  For those who don't already know it, the headline to this post is an acronym meaning "There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This...
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Monday, February 15, 2021

Online dating: are you really talking, not to a person, but to a search committee?

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  I suppose it was only a matter of time, but it seems even online dating services are now becoming just another business . One day when I w...
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