June 20th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
They told me it’s the longest day of the year, but to me they’ve all felt that way since January 20.
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June 18th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
When all the news is always about the constantly distracted Donald Trump, one has to wonder how his staff lets him out of the White House without a leash.
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June 14th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Thinking of the utter hypocrisy of the MAGA crowd as they deal with so-called “illegals.“
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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.
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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.
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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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