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)

Sunday, April 9, 2023

Ode to Spring

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  by Pa Rock Curmudgeon There won't be any damned rabbits hiding their damned eggs in my damned yard today - that's for damned sure!...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Mellencamp in Kansas City

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  by Pa Rock Road Warrior A major focus of my trip to Kansas City this past week was to see John Mellencamp  in concert at that historic Mid...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Tennessee Legislature Just Made Itself Whiter

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The Republican super-majority in the Tennessee House of Representatives had already turned itself into a nat...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

The Tennessee Three Face Expulsion Today

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist According to information obtained through Google , only two Tennessee state representatives have been expell...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Queen of Harassment Doesn't Like Being Harassed

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Nuisance noise generator Marge Greene tried to hold a protest rally across from the courthouse in New York C...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Arraignment Today, Golf Tomorrow

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist America's premier grifter boarded his private passenger plane, a rehabbed Boeing 757 with his name paint...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Road Notes and ChatGPT

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by Pa Rock Road Warrior Rosie and I are back on the road and again visiting at the home of my son, Tim, and his family in the Kansas suburbs...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Mellencamp: One More Excuse to Delay Mowing

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  by Pa Rock Creature of Habit The yard is starting to look truly ragged and I have almost run out of reasons to keep putting off the dreade...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Indictment Memes, a Country Sampler

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  by Pa Rock Culture Warrior They are probably all over Facebook, but I am not - so I was very appreciative yesterday when a a pair of my f...
Friday, March 31, 2023

And Throw Away the Key!

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  by Pa Rock Law-Abiding Citizen (Note:  I learned yesterday that the internet customers in my area who are stuck with the same service prov...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Big Wind's A-Coming!

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I managed to get my internet turned back on this past Monday after several nice visits with three individual...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

One Indicator of the GOP Preferiti

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The Epoch Times  is a right-wing trashcan liner posing as a newspaper that shows up free in my mailbox two o...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Low Art of Winning News Cycles: A Nasty Business

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist A friend forwarded an article from Newsweek this morning focusing on what appeared to be some contradictory...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Another Update from the McDonald's Parking Lot

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  by Pa Rock Struggling Blogger I often use this space to comment on stories in the news that pique my interest.  I use the internet and new...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Governor Parson's Property Values Get an Uplift

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist When I am out on the road on long drives, as I was two days this week, I like to keep track of oddities that...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Breakfast with Satan

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  by Pa Rock Road Warrior This morning as Rosie and I were preparing to leave Roeland Park, Kansas, for the 277-mile drive back to our home ...
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Friday, March 24, 2023

Hamilton Does Kansas City!

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  by Pa Rock Proud Grandpa The Music Hall Theatre at the Kansas City Convention Center seats just north of 2,300 people, and as far as I cou...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Seventy-Five and on the Fly!

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  by Pa Rock Aging Citizen Journalist Seventy-five years ago this morning my mother, a petite woman, was in the delivery room of Sale Memori...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The Perils of Overage Driving

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by Pa Rock Senior Citizen (Acknowledgement:  I am close enough to being seventy-five that I could, at this point, probably stay awake until ...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Arrest Day: Another Trump Lie

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I went out and fed the cat before daylight this morning, and then freed the guinea from his coop and fed him...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Hawley Ain't No Woody Guthrie!

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Woody Guthrie was not only a legendary folksinger and songwriter, he was also an environmentalist and social...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Don Gets his Con Going

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist In a crass political move that was obviously designed to rile up his supporters, Donald Trump announced yest...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Arrest Warrant Issued for Putin

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist If Russian President Vlad Putin has any plans for a spring get-away this year, they probably don't inclu...
Friday, March 17, 2023

The Perils of Horse Paste

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  by Pa Rock Believer in Science Over the past couple of years there have been so many cases of celebrities and other well known individuals...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Texas Amps Up Its War on Women

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist For those Americans who are female, fertile, and of child-bearing age, Texas is probably a good state to avoid...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

DeSantis Tells Tucker What He Wants to Hear about Ukraine

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist In addition to being a general apologist for Russian President Vlad Putin, Fox News personality Tucker Carlso...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Rock Concerts for Old Folks

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  by Pa Rock Aging Citizen Journalist Jamie Lee Curtis, a prolific Hollywood actress and former "scream queen" (so noted due to he...
Monday, March 13, 2023

If It looks Like a Bailout, and It Smells Like a Bailout, Chances are It's a Bailout!

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Bank failures can be like cancer and show a quick tendency to spread.  That is why most sane people don'...
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Pa Rock
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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