Pa Rock's Ramble

Welcome to my cocktail of old writing scraps, special memories, and current personal opinion. Please feel free to comment, criticize, or remark in any way that makes you feel better. This effort is lovingly dedicated to my grandchildren - Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Willow, Olive, and Sullivan - golden portals to the future. May they all have a place at the table in a fair and just society. -- Pa Rock (Rocky Macy)

Friday, December 12, 2025

Indiana Stands Strong!

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist After suffering an array of threats against themselves and their families, their property, and the well-bein...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Fishing, Lies, and Penance

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by Bob Randall (Editor's Note:  I hadn't heard from Ranger Bob for awhile and was starting to grow concerned, when I received an ema...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Missouri to Enact Gerrymander in Spite of Citizens' Initiative

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by Pa Rock Missouri Voter (of the pissed-off variety!) The GOP dominated Missouri Legislature pushed through a gerrymander of the state'...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

The Game Changer

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  by Pa Rock Decrepit Typist Being old, I have many aches and pains and medical conditions to occupy my time and conversation.  Of late, the...
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Monday, December 8, 2025

New Mattress Arrives

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  by Pa Rock Plodding Typist This morning as I was still pondering what to write about in today's blog posting, two  middle-aged fellows...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Minnesota Has It Going On!

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Trump was on a tear last week in his cabinet meeting on Tuesday against Somalia, Somalian immigrants in the ...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Being a Blithering Racist is Cool Again

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The US has always had more than its share of racists, but over the past few decades they had quietly begun t...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Somalis ARE NOT Garbage, Diversity IS a Strength

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist This past Tuesday at one of his rare cabinet meetings, Donald Trump, who was in the midst of castigating Afg...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Acclaimed Novelist Daniel Woodrell Dies

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  by Pa Rock West Plains Typist Nationally acclaimed author Daniel Woodrell passed away at his home in West Plains, Missouri, last Friday, N...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Hegseth Underbusses an Admiral

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Every year new words emerge through popular usage and gain entry into our daily vocabulary.  The big on-line...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Judah, a Sensible Sixteen

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  by Pa Rock Proud Grandpa Today is the sixteenth birthday of my Oregon grandson, Judah.   He was born in Oregon and has lived in the same h...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Willow is Fourteen (and a day)!

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  by Pa Rock Proud Grandpa My youngest granddaughter, Willow, turned fourteen yesterday, and I feel awful because I let her big day slide ri...

Let's Try "Trickle Up" for a Change

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The United States of America can't afford to help impoverished working Americans, some of whom are holding...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Some Cartel Kingpins are Better Connected than Others

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Things are currently a mess in the Southern Caribbean with no signs of getting better.   The United States h...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Old Garbage Mouth

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The last few days have witnessed a serious uptick in hate speech and vitriol coming from the White House, a ...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

A Living Room that Sleeps Four

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  by Pa Rock Happy Homebody I have wanted a recliner since that day in the spring of 2020 when I fell outside while trying to exit a raised ...
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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving Scatterings

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  by Pa Rock Homebody It's a cold and crisp Thanksgiving Day in the Ozarks, currently 30 degrees F and clear skies.   Rosie and I were o...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Forty Years Later

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by Pa Rock Proud Papa  Our company arrived early Monday afternoon and left early Tuesday.  They came in two waves.  The first was my eightee...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

US Military Preps for War with the Scouts

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist In its mad rush to reverse every equality gain in our nation's entire history, the Trump administration ...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Company's Coming!

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  by Pa Rock Holiday Host If the day goes as planned, this afternoon I will have all three of my children and four of six grandchildren unde...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

MTG Grabs Her Pension on the Way Out the Door

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist One of my favorite Democratic Socialists, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a politician ...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Mamdani In, Greene Out

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The American political landscape was rolling yesterday, somewhere in the neighborhood of "8" on th...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Da Pope is in da Fridge!

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  by Pa Rock Fan of da Pope Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was in Vatican City on Wednesday checking up on Chicago native son, Pope Leo XIV...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Smokeout! The Maldives Forge a Path Forward

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  by Pa Rock Ex-Smoker Today is the "GreatAmerican Smokeout," an annual health-oriented, smoking cessation event that was started ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Quiet, Piggy

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I received an email from my favorite cousin a couple of days ago recommending a particular podcast which she...
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West Plains, Missouri, United States
I'm just me - a solitary wanderer who trekked across much of the world and recently retired to a small farm in the Ozarks. My checkered past includes time spent as an Army officer, high school teacher and principal, real estate broker, child protection worker and administrator, and social worker with the U.S. military. Over the years I have resided in a variety of places including Missouri, Virginia, Okinawa, Kansas, Kentucky, and Arizona. I have also traveled to Germany, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, Belize, Guatemala, Taiwan, Guam, South Korea, Vietnam, and numerous islands in the Caribbean - including Cuba. I have ridden in a Russian ambulance, hitch-hiked across Moscow late at night, fought an ostrich, celebrated New Year's at a street party in Hanoi, and bicycled across the Caribbean. My travels have taken me to Ground Zero in Hiroshima, the Bolshoi Ballet, China Beach, and the White House kitchen. The nine things in life that I am most proud of are my children: Nick, Molly, and Tim, and my grandchildren: Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Olive, Willow, and Sullivan. Life has been very good to me indeed!
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