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Latest from the NY Times on the mindset of the person who opened fire on the Republican members of Congress who were training for the annual baseball game at a field in Alexandria VA: The Virginia shooting suspect was an opponent of President Trump and “wasn’t happy with the way things were going,” his brother said. There are quite a few people (myself included) who think that the current administration and the Republican majorities on…

Now the party line is "unexpected reaction to medication". This rather begs the question…what in the hell was so unexpected about having a reaction to medications that likely had explicit warnings against driving whilst you're taking them? Or how about another question? How in the world does a billionaire golfer get banged into chokey for drink driving in the first place? One who could certainly afford a chauffeur who can remain sober and capable of…

Some of the best "Yosemite Sam" imitations Dad would do would come on Memorial Day when he'd be going all "dag blabbit…Memorial Day ain't for those still living!" when people would offer their thanks for his service. It was all I could do to not laugh out loud! He had completely forgotten his distant relative Gen John Logan who was credited with the first official order for Memorial Day… :) I completely biffed this last…

Mr Trump's administration seems to have a real problem with people not remembering the old adage "loose lips sink ships". Perhaps these guys can help find 'em and plug 'em! ;) (As an aside…we realise Mr Trump hasn't been sailing all that long but we would remind him that the ship of state is the only ship that tends to leak from the top!)

Today would have been my grandmother Williams' 104th birthday and our usual celebration of that milestone would be an elaborately designed cake baked by my father in which the candles would reflect the combined ages of her, me, and Uncle Roger who all had birthdays in the first half of May. If we added my oldest son Nicholas whose birthday was yesterday…we could kick that number up to 251! The cluster of early May birthdays…