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What’s the Mission? Or: Bearded Men Tell Me What to Do.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

My first mentor was plastic. At age eight, I received a Talking Adventure Team Commander GI Joe, complete with life-like hair and kung-fu grip. Note his thousand-yard stare. He has seen things. If you pulled his dog tag, the Commander said one of eight phrases. One is imprinted on my brain: “I’ve got a tough assignment […]

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Confederacy of Dumbsh*ts

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Every time Trump returns to his 2016 policy of picking idiots, sycophants, brutes, and all of the above to run things, I gain a tiny bit of hope that, once again, they will eat through each other like rats in a barrel. Oh, there will be horrors and pain, but they are terrible at governance […]

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Joan R. Kelly (née Quinn)—Eulogy

Friday, May 17, 2024

I asked my wife Michael to share her earliest memory of meeting my Mom. She remembered the first Kelly family gathering she ever attended. Likely, there were 25 or more of us, celebrating a birthday or holiday or both in the house on Maple Drive. Mike comes from a smaller family, and was amazed at […]

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Bernard J. Kelly—Eulogy

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

The first time I ever spoke up here I was 12 years old and a student at St. Damian. I recited a reading for that week’s mass. As a quiet kid it was a big deal, and an attempt to break out of the shell everyone told me I was in. I did it without […]

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I Stopped Blogging…

Thursday, January 19, 2023

And nobody noticed. I stopped writing, and nobody noticed but me. Definitely at the “why bother?” stage of my career.

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