The Talking Dog

I would be remiss if I allowed another month to go by without mentioning one of life's milestones here in Stately Dog Manor, specifically, the college graduation (with high honors,...

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Earler today, in a tense courtroom in Minneapolis, MN, former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges against him (murder in the second and third degree...

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With all the good stuff happening, such as over 100 million vaccines (at least the first dose) administered to Americans (with one in eight American adults fully vaccinated), we take...

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There is an interesting question about whether the plague year can be more than twelve months, as clearly, COVID-45 was on our shores by this time a year ago (although...

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Meet the new year, same as the old year. Sure, COVID-45 numbers continue to explode, now over 22 million confirmed cases with record new numbers of cases and deaths. But...

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And so it looks like with Joe Biden's electoral college victory in hand, Donald Trump's "operation warped vision" looks like it is all but over, notwithstanding Senator Josh Hawley's commitment.....

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Sarah Mirk is a Portland, Oregon based multimedia journalist whose work focuses on telling nuanced, human-focused stories. She is an editor at The Nib, the former editor of feminist...

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It is now ten days after the November 3rd election, and six days after the major television networks and the Associated Press called the Presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden,...

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Well, it's that time of year again-- in this case, 58 trips around the sun since the Cuban missile crisis and when TD Mom gave birth to me. And an...

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Mrs. TD and I were married just 29 years ago today. Draw your own conclusions....

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And we're off: nineteen years ago today was the first entry on this here blog, then as now, a week after 9-11, then as now, just in time for the...

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Happy happy fun fun. It's 9-11, boys and girls. Plague year edition. As long-time readers know (glad you're both still with me!), I often do something... commemorative about September 11th...

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Hard to believe that the Loquacious Pup, who wasn't even two years old when this here blog got started a week after 9-11, is now starting her senior year of...

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And so we come to the weekend between the scheduled Democratic and Republican National conventions, which, this year, because of the COVID-45/Donald Trump plague, are largely "virtual" affairs ma...

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As we roll through a summer like no other in an election year like no other when the uniquely awful attributes of the uniquely awful American system make the least-experienced,...

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