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Election 2020 – Adventures in Voting

Posted on July 28, 2020December 25, 2022 by Frank C. Siraguso

Voting in absentia by Frank C. Siraguso July 28, 2020 The Missouri primary election is Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Today we, Molly Margaret and I, went to the Kansas City Board of…

1959

Posted on December 31, 2018December 30, 2022 by Frank C. Siraguso

Frank C. SiragusoPhoto by Bud Simpson It was a week past Christmas. Mom and I had walked the half block up the street to my grandparents, my mom’s parents, for New Year’s…

A Northeast Christmas Scene

Posted on December 15, 2017December 25, 2022 by Frank C. Siraguso

We had just set the Christmas tree in the flimsy, three-legged, red-and-green metal stand, and tightened the three bolts to hold it. This was Christmas of ’69 or ’70. I was still…

California Rake

Posted on October 10, 2017March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

It was during that summer of 1984, while I was living in Long Beach, California, that I first saw them. The two guys cutting the grass in the tiny front yard of…

Vote, Don’t Drop

Posted on November 3, 2016March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

Dave and the Fish Church Election 2016 is proving to be weirder than any in living memory. I am not impartial, fair or balanced about the outcome. I’m for Hillary, not Trump….

Nixon resigns – 40 years ago today

Posted on August 8, 2014March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

I remember exactly where I was Thursday, August 8, 1974, the night Richard Nixon announced his impending resignation I and a friend were glued to the radio in his car, parked outside…

Piss on ’em

Posted on January 12, 2012November 25, 2012 by Frank C. Siraguso

Part of me thinks there’s too much hand-wringing about the four U.S. Marines pissing on dead Afghani fighters. It’s not like they dragged them behind their humvees, like the Somalis dragged and…

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