June 10th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded 90 years ago on the simple principle of one drunk telling another how he stayed sober.
Tags: 12-step, AA, Akron, alcoholics anonymous, Big Book, Bill Wilson, Cornwall, Dr. Bob, drunk, founders, higher power, Oxford Group, sober, spirituality
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June 7th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
I don’t really have a favorite in the cat fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I don’t really find it entertaining. I just want them both to lose.
Tags: AI, Burr, Chinese, Congress, DOGE, duel, Epstein, Feud, Google, Hamilton, Musk, Republicans, trump, Weehawken
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June 2nd, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Catching up with the news after a couple days off can be exhausting these days.
Tags: AI, Biden, Bob Gaydos, bombers, briefings, DOGE, drugs, Ernst, Fox News, Gabbard, golf, health, Kennedy, Ketamine, Medicaid, Musk, robot, Russia, trump, Ukraine, White House
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May 29th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Continuing my pledge to honor the memory of John F. Kennedy on his birthdate, which I share with him, rather than on the day he was assassinated.
Tags: assassinated, Bob Dylan, Bob Gaydos, bullshit, Camelot, Cuban Missile Crisis, editorial, Fort Dix, Harry Frankfurt, Harvard, JFK, Kennedy, Times Herald-Record
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May 29th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
A birthday gift some 60 years in the making.
Tags: AI, Bayonne, Binghamton, Bob Gaydos, Dancers, disco, Go-Go, journalism, Myrae, Newspapers, photography, The Sun-Bulletin, TikTok, Tom Nalesnik, typewriters
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May 26th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Trump had a perfect setting to deliver a personal message of inspiration to the graduating cadets at West Point. He failed miserably.
Tags: Bob Gaydos, cadets, Capone, Cornwall, Gotti, graduation, Hudson River, N.Y., New York, New York Military Academy, trump, West Point
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May 22nd, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
A poem about rain.
Tags: Bob Gaydos, May, planting, rain, soggy, sonnets, spring
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May 21st, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
We’re big in this country on designating special months and days for special causes, but I don’t think mental health awareness should go away on June 1 for another year.
Tags: addiction, asylums, Baltimore, Bob Gaydos, Clifford Beers, Congress, federal, hotline, Medicaid, Mental health, Mental Health Association, MHA, New York, non-profit, Orange County, Shackles, suicide, veterans
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May 18th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Praying for a Reverse Rapture is kind of a holy way to say, “Go to Hades.” Isn’t it?
Tags: Bob Gaydos, fentanyl, Fox News, Hades, Heaven, Left Behind, Loomer, MAGA, Musk, Noem, Orpheus, Putin, Rapture, Republican, Saudis, terrorists, Thomas, trump, Underworld
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May 14th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
“I don’t know,” has become Donald Trump’s go to answer for any question concerning the Constitution . Other times he just doesn’t say it. RFK Junior, on the other hand, knows everything. Just ask him.
Tags: autism, Bob Gaydos, By Bob Gaydos, Constitution, fluoride, Gifts, health, Hudson River, Iraq, Kingston, measles, Newburgh, Plane, president, RFK Junior, Saudi Arabia, syria, trump, Utah, vaccines
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