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Why Not Mamdami?

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on November 5, 2025November 6, 2025
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I don’t live in New York City so I don’t really know what the city needs but the election of its next mayor has been fascinating. A young, Muslim Democratic Socialist is set to be […]

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We’re Not Making America Great.

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 25, 2025August 25, 2025
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I was listening to Blink-182 this morning on my bike ride (I ride to school with my son and his neighbor friend) home from school and was singing along, enjoying a band I used to […]

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Are We Going to Have to Live Like This Forever?

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on October 5, 2024
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Hurricane Helene hit the East Coast last week and like most hurricanes, wildfires and tornados, there’s a lot of people of people hurting that need help at the moment. The stories out of North Carolina […]

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Elon is Doing More to Elect Trump than Twitter and Jack Dorsey Ever Did to Help the Democrats

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 5, 2024
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In late 2020, the story broke that Hunter Biden’s laptop was found at a computer store and contained salacious information that was sure to implicate his father who was running for and would eventually win […]

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They Just Don’t Get Why We’re Not Voting For Trump

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 2, 2024
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When Kamala Harris ran for President in 2020, I thought she was possibly the worst candidate. Prior to running, Harris was a Senator and before that, the Attorney General of California. I lived in San […]

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The Super Bowl as I Experienced it and the Super Bowl on Social Media were two Different Things

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on February 13, 2024February 13, 2024
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I attended a really fun Super Bowl Party at my next-door neighbor’s house on Sunday. I would say about 30 adults attended and maybe fifteen kids. As usual, I had some drinks, watched about half […]

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The Intersection of Reason and Transgender Issues

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on October 29, 2021
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I watched Dave Chapelle’s “The Closer” with my wife two weeks ago and came away with a few thoughts. First of all, I knew immediately that the LGBTQ community would go nuts. Secondly, I thought […]

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Leave Afghanistan and Never Look Back

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 15, 2021August 16, 2021
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I woke up this morning to the news that the Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai fled the country after being promised safe passage by the Taliban. What. A. Fucking. Coward. More on that in […]

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What About Us?

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 5, 2021
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I listen or read almost everything JD Vance writes or says because Vance is a smart Republican running for Senate in Ohio. Vance, like me, grew up poor in a small midwestern town and like […]

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Hope. It’s a Choice.

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on January 20, 2021
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Today, Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the 46th President of the United States in an environment that we have never seen in our lifetime. God willing, we’ll never see nor will we endure anything like […]

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