Trump needs a nickname, and America needs a sure-fire, sing-along song to energize the crowds in the campaign to defeat him. A new parody, “Donnie Dough,”or “Hey Donnie Donnie,” does both. It is based on a tune written by Woody Guthrie as “Hey Lolly Lolly” and was recorded by Pete Seeger, the Limeliters and
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I tried to put a couple of bumper stickers up for sale on the do-it-yourself sites Zazzle.com and CafePress.com, but they wouldn’t touch them due to threats of lawsuits from the NRA. If you don’t see many anti-NRA bumper stickers, you now know why. Any decent lawyer will tell you it would be totally legal
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Recently there was another mass murder, this time at a Florida high school where a white-supremacist killed seventeen people. Once again, the NRA and the GOP are blaming “mental health” as the reason. I wrote about the origins of this song twice before on these pages, but this time I’ve changed the title from “Blow
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Scotty & The Skeptics–Mp3 November 17, 2017 Seems as though I posted this songwriter demo just yesterday after the shooting in Orlando, but that was in June of 2016 when I was just starting to blog, so it’s been over a year since that “worst mass shooting” in U.S. history. Then last month the
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(This annual update {edited here for general readership} accompanied my note to my personal Christmas card list {see previous blog post}.) My wife and I are both doing well, just the usual growing pains. She spins at the gym or does Pilates five days a week and tap dances. She teaches one course per semester,
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I was in such a bah–humbug mode during last year’s holiday season that I didn’t send any cards to my list of “friends,” which got me to really think about the tradition of sending greeting cards every year at Christmas. I’ve always been a big fan of Santa, but I’m not into formal religion and
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From the Veterans Writing Group workshop, December 3, 2016— “What are you feeling today?” was the question at the check-in. I hate questions about “feelings,” partly because my wife is a psychologist and the subject of “feelings” comes up a lot. There were about thirty of us, and I couldn’t think of what I
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11/4/16 Update: With five days to go, it’s too late in the game to put the new Comey is a Trumpie bumpersticker up for sale. (DELETED BY THREAT OF LAWYERS-2018). Besides, have you noticed there are practically NO bumperstickers this election? Or yard signs, at least around here. As I mentioned a few weeks ago,
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Time for a short post and a new bumper sticker. It’s the second day of the GOP conclave in Cleveland and now Trump is officially the candidate and is nipping at Clinton’s heels in the polls. I have been struck reading about the many super-Bernie fans who say they’ll sit out the election rather than
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FREE NoTrumpZone™ signs. Make yours today! It’s easy if you have an ink-jet printer. All you have to do is click on the NoTrumpZone image at the end of this blog and print directly to your printer, stick on a couple pieces of tape, and—PRESTO!—you’ve got a NoTrumpZone window sign! Even your low-tech grandmother could
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