Monthly Archives: June 2023

The Student Loan Mafia – A Re-Post from 2018

Posted on June 30, 2023 by toritto

Today the Supreme Court ruled that President Biden’s plan to partially forgive student loan debt was unconstitutional.  It’s a good day for a re-post from five years ago. “Student debt collectors have powers that would make a mobster envious”. Thus … Continue reading →

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A Boy’s Blush – From the Short Story Archive

Posted on June 28, 2023 by toritto

My street – 13th Avenue at 66th street Brooklyn in the late 1940s  I lived in the buildings on the extreme left with the triangular roof lines above the awnings. The heat baked the  concrete streets of Brooklyn that Summer … Continue reading →

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My Own Conspiracy Theory

Posted on June 27, 2023 by toritto

We’ve all read conspiracy theories, disinformation, and outright lies.  You know.  Like Trump won by millions of votes and the election was stolen, with computers based in taly changing the votes on the Dominion voting machines. The more intelligent among … Continue reading →

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Sunday Afternoon Conspiracies

Posted on June 25, 2023 by toritto

Well it’s a quiet, hot and humid Sunday here on the Florida gulf coast.  Good day to check out the latest right-wing lies, disinformation and outright BS covered by the MSM. Our top conspiracy theory of the day came from … Continue reading →

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Little Ethical to be Seen Here!

Posted on June 23, 2023 by toritto

Toritto pushing 81 Does America have moral and ethical leaders anymore?   I’m beginning to wonder as each week seems to bring a new “scandal” involving those that govern or judge us regular folks. Last week it was Associate Justice of … Continue reading →

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Titanic

Posted on June 22, 2023 by toritto

When I watched the first episode of Downton Abbey I recall that the date was supposedly April 15, 1913  I knw that date right away. It was the date the Titanic sank with the loss f approximately 1,500 lives.  The … Continue reading →

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he Stuff the Tour Guide Leaves Out

Posted on June 19, 2023 by toritto

Been to Versailles? Walked among the magnificent rooms, halls, gardens imagining the Sun King. his women and nobles in exquisite dress, strolling about on a lovely French afternoon?  Dinner for perhaps 700 followed by gaiety, fireworks and bedding a Countess? … Continue reading →

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“God Save the Queen Man!”

Posted on June 17, 2023 by toritto

Ok.  We’ve heard a lot about Joe Biden being too old to run again.  He and I are the same age.  And I can’t imagine running for President next year and then serving until I was 85. But that’s me.  … Continue reading →

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Augustus, Ovid, Morality amd Censorship – From the History Archive

Posted on June 15, 2023 by toritto
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On Cleopatra and Marrying Your Brother

Posted on June 14, 2023 by toritto

Well yesterday the former President of the United States of America pleaded not guilty to  37 felony indictments concerning his handling of classified documents. It  was about time.  Wonder why it took so long. He took classified docs, kept them … Continue reading →

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