Seven ways to avoid hypocrisy. — Jeffrey Denny It’s pointless to argue with people who ideologically refuse to mask or vaccinate against Covid-19 and variants. The harder we try, the more objective verified facts we provide, the more we try to reason, the more we beseech out of love and concern for them, the public and…

Never debate children — Jeffrey Denny Many Americans who care about our country, Constitution and democracy are struggling with how to manage relationships with MAGAs in their midst. Especially when our MAGAs refuse to mask or vaccinate, repeat Trump’s election steal Big Lie among countless other lies, or deny, deflect or dismiss the deadly…

Serve my needs or I quit — Jeffrey Denny “Everyone is loud and proud to say they let go of what wasn’t serving them.” –Millennial quoted by The New York Times, “Public Displays of Resignation.” Who says today’s much wiser youth can’t teach doddering Boomers like me new tricks? Like how to command the world to fulfill…

Asking questions even “she” can’t answer — Jeffrey Denny Bored to extreme existential ennui on an ice-rainy pre-post Covid quarantining January Sunday afternoon, I thought of a few provocative questions to ask Alexa. I didn’t get good answers. Maybe you’ll have better luck: Alexa, are invisible fences the biggest scam ever? And how would anyone know? Alexa, are you embarrassed to be working for Amazon?

Crucified for the sins of his MAGA voters — Jeffrey Denny Did you take naughty delight in coaling U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s Christmas stocking after he killed the Biden Build Back Better bill? Me too. How dare the West Virginia Democrat refuse to help sick and struggling families, especially during another pandemic holiday season? But attacking Manchin lets the…

From a top influencer influencing the influencers — Jeffrey Denny The Trump Pandemic and drag on real life is not over yet. But even with Omicron, we’re starting to see green shoots of normalcy. Should normalcy become actual normal again, or even become The New Normal, or even the New New Normal — Normal Squared® — it’s time…

Avoid giving triggering “presents” — Jeffrey Denny If you care at all about sensitive sensitivities, then cross these gift ideas off your last-minute gift list: Anything from “Twelve Days of Christmas” Starting with maids a-milking, which is too misogynist to unpack here. Also troubling: The partridge, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, geese, and swans. …

Gifting you my gift list — Jeffrey Denny Please, please, please/Let me, let me, let me/Let me get what I want/This time — Morrissey Struggling to find the perfect holiday gift for me? I understand, and as an amazing empath, I empathize. What possibly could you get for a guy who has Amazon Prime and hence…

The Trump Troll Treason Caucus didn’t elect itself — Jeffrey Denny Troubled by “The exhausting, soul-sapping meanness of Lauren Boebert,” as a Washington Post columnist described the shameless Republican congresswoman from Colorado? Don’t completely blame Boebert for her mean, nasty, ugly, smugly snarky, bigoted, bullying, lame-brained, gun-toting, violence-inciting brand. Boebert wouldn’t be sneering “Jihad Squad” at a Muslim colleague…