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Lifelong Chicagoan, retired from careers including comedy writing & performing, television production & bookstore management.
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I should be a “Survivor” executive producer. I have an idea for season 50. If a tribe is shorthanded at a challenge, instead of having the other tribes make players sit out, they should be allowed to draw extra help from a bench including people like Boston Rob and even Jeff Probst. I have spoken!

TikTok pulled this video within seconds of posting & gave it a Community Standards Violation. I assume an automated mechanism was triggered by something, but what? Is it really that provocative?

Americans! Are you really longing for one out of four of you to work in factories again?

If all you knew was from TV commercials, you would think just about everyone in America is upper middle class and lives in an immaculate home and drives a nice car and has gorgeous hair and teeth and plenty of money to spend on the products and services being pitched.

My TikTok friend Shazza in Birmingham, England is such a good sport!

I am considering a few feature called Protest Sign of the Day.

My mother routinely stocked Crisco. I wonder if that behavior was driven by ad campaigns such as this. If she’d ever served us pineapple chunks on sticks, I would suspect she might have even seen this specific ad in 1950.

It’s all part of Trump’s “Golden Age of American Innovation” as we gear up to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday which could happen as soon as next week!

Like all people descending into dementia, he keeps repeating himself. Repeating himself. Saying the same thing over and over again. Maybe in different ways. But the same thing. It’s just the same thing over and over again. Repeats himself. Can you believe it? Just keeps repeating himself.