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, March 7, 2025

Jason Smith Don't Need No Stinking Town Halls!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist My congressman, Rep. Jason Smith, a Republican from Missouri's 8th congressional district, hasn't be...

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The Death Knell for Public Education

by Pa Rock Former Teacher Donald Trump must have some interest in education because he has a history of disparaging others for what he bel...

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The Wind, She Blows - and So Does DOGE!

by Pa Rock Weather-Watcher March came in peacefully this year in the Ozarks, but by yesterday morning there were signs of the Lion's i...

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

One Key to Success: Learning a Second Language

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Yesterday in this space I mentioned a small, rural Missouri school where several years ago the principal bri...

Monday, March 3, 2025

The Problems with an "Official" Language

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The United States used to take pride in our multi-cultural, melting-pot heritage, but with Trump now back in...

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Saturday Night Take Out

by Pa Rock Man About Town Most days I am at home taking care of a couple of entitled dogs and typing at the computer during their nap time...

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Ambush at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist President Zelenskyy of Ukraine was summoned to the White House yesterday to formalize an extortion of Ukrain...

Friday, February 28, 2025

GOP Budget Poses Harm to Children

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Most conservatives, and almost all Republican conservatives, get righteously indignant when the subject of a...

Thursday, February 27, 2025

President Wonka's Golden Ticket

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Of course US immigration policy is about class and race. Donald Trump has no problems with wealthy white ...

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

America Aligns with the Bad Guys

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist This past Monday, the day before yesterday, during a session of the United Nation's General Assembly , t...

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Philistines Take Over Kennedy Center

by Pa Rock Culture Vulture The idea which later evolved into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was first conceived in 195...

Monday, February 24, 2025

Giving Elon the One-Finger Salute

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Yesterday in this space I wrote about the memo that Elon Musk sent out through the Office of Management and ...

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Elon, GO HOME!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The disruption of government services intensified yesterday when the faux government agency, the Departmen...

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Gutsy Ladies Speak Truth to Power

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Neither Elon Musk nor his babbling sidekick, Donald Trump, like being talked back to by mere mortals, especi...

Friday, February 21, 2025

US Betrayal of Ukraine Is Shameful

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist There has been a lot of incoherent garbage flowing through the political tap of late, and most of it seems to ...

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Cold AF

by Pa Rock Popsicle Man The Polar Vortex began arriving in the Ozarks on Tuesday with plunging temperatures and light snow. The snow was ...

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Peltier Is Home; It's About Damned Time!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist More than forty-nine years of captivity came to an end yesterday for Chippewa Native American activist Leona...

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

More Government Waste

by Pa Rock Concerned Taxpayer A week ago today I wrote an unkind piece in this blog about the taxpayer-funded trip that Donald Trump, memb...

Monday, February 17, 2025

Polar Vortex Number 10

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I was a school teacher and administrator when I lived in Howell County, Missouri, from the fall of 1977 unti...

Sunday, February 16, 2025

An Angry Toddler with a Loaded Gun

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist There are several common ways to get a beverage, or any liquid, out of a container. It might, for example ...

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Whale of a Tale

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist (Note: Today's posting is dedicated to Cristian Lund Duchylard, my favorite Chilean.) This story has be...

Friday, February 14, 2025

Soldiers Making Valentines

by Pa Rock Retired LCSW Two decades ago while I was working as a civilian social worker with a large Army base in the midwest, one which s...

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Elon Needs to Go

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Elon Musk and his merry band of teenage mutant ninja nerds have been working overtime and literally sleeping...

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

X's Daddy

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Yesterday the man who has near total control of the US government took his young son, X, to the White House ...

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Hail Caesar, and the Horse He Rode In On

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Donald Trump and his entourage of shiftless family members and political bootlickers, as well as a legion of...

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About Me

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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