December 29th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Elise Stefanik learned the hard way that loyalty in a cult only flows in one direction, up to the leader.
Tags: Bob Gaydos, Congress, ethics, Harvard, House of Representatives, loyalty, New York, Republicans, Stefanik, trump, United Nations
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December 24th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
He opened the bedroom door and entered a world of light and laughter and clinking glasses and aunts and uncles and … trains! Trains! And tracks. And…!
Tags: Bayonne, Bob Gaydos, Christmas Eve, family, Lionel, Middletown, Santa Claus, Trains
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December 21st, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Trump slapping his name on the John F. Kennedy Center is illegal and obscene. Trump in essence.
Tags: Cuban Missile Crisis, D.C., Harvard, JFK, John Kennedy, Kennedy Center, moon, Peace Corps, president, PT-109, Pulitzer, Purple Heart, trump, Washington, World WarII
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December 19th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Susie Wiles, Donald Trump‘s chief of staff, says he has an alcoholic’s personality and spoke openly of his vindictiveness. But she’s no victim. She’s been easing the way for him every day as an enabler.
Tags: 12-step, AA, Al-Anon, alcoholic, Bob Gaydos, enablers, Giuliani, Haldeman, Inventory, Nixon, Summerall, Susie Wiles, trump, Vanity Fair, White House
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December 15th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Never mind why Trump is talking. That’s all he knows. The question is why Republicans are silent.
Tags: 12 steps, Al-Anon, America, apathy, Bob Gaydos, movies, murder, pain, Republicans, Rob Reiner, trump, TV, WAIT
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December 7th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Tissues could handle a sneeze, cars had individual design, every singer had a TV show and the U.S. was respected around the world … once upon a time.
Tags: Andy Williams, Bob Gaydos, Dean Martin, Democracy, drugs, journalist, Navy, Newspapers, Perry Como, Pine Bush, police, Rosemary Clooney, Sirius, sports betting, SUVs, tariffs, TikTok, Tissues, TV, Uniformity, warrants
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December 3rd, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
The creators of the Netflix series “Death by Lightning” reminded us of the “beauty of America.” Anyone can be president. Well, unless of course, she is a woman.
Tags: Bob Gaydos, Cabinet, Chester A. Arthur, Citizens United, Guiteau, James Garfield, Netflix, New York, president, Republican, Roscoe Conkling, Spoils system, trump, United
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November 27th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Better to stifle the bitter and savor the sweet for at least one day. Airing an attitude of gratitude for Thanksgiving.
Tags: anger, Bayonne, Bill Wilson, Bob Gaydos, consciousness, friends, Gratitude, max, Sinatra, sushi, Thanksgiving, typewriter, writing, Zack
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November 25th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
My annual column of tips on holiday partying for people in recovery and their hosts. “No, thank you” is an acceptable answer.
Tags: AA, addiction, alcohol, alcoholics anonymous, Bob Gaydos, Christmas, Credit cards, Debtors Anonymous, eating disorder, food, holidays, New Year’s, OA, overeaters, parties, recovery, Thanksgiving
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November 22nd, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Sixty-two years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, questions still linger about the man with whom I feel synchronistically connected.
Tags: assassinated, Bob Gaydos, CUba, Fort Dix, JFK, Kennedy, Khruschev, Middletown, misssiles, Peace Corps, Russia, Soviet, Times Herald-Record, Zack Gaydos
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