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Eric Swalwell
Way back on July 8, 2022, in that innocent time before Kevin McCarthy truly understood the phrase “eating their young,” Life in the Boomer Lane missed an important headline from the Washington Examiner, “Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is Unfit for Congress and Owes Lauren Boebert An Apology.” Had she been astute enough to see this headline, […]
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It’s Only A Number Take 2
February 21, 2024
October 2023 was an innocent time in America. A surprised Kevin McCarthy was booted from his job as Speaker of the House, and Jim Jordan, believing he would do much better, was elated to get the nomination. That same month, People Magazine reported that, while Taylor Swift and Kelce sure seemed like an item, an […]
It’s Only A Number
February 14, 2024
The latest episode of Battle of the Age Gladiators pits Donald Trump against Joe Biden. Trump’s people have been age-bashing Biden for a long time now, asserting that Biden, by virture of the fact that he is in the 79-106 age demographic, is unfit to hold office. Trump, on the other hand, a member of the […]
Give That Company An Oscar
February 5, 2024
It’s easy to buy products we like, without knowing anything about the companies that produce them. Products that taste good, work well, look attractive, make us feel secure, and are easy to get, usually inspire us to whip out our credit cards. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, some of these companies are better than others at […]
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RIP: Rest in Peace, Medical Debt
January 29, 2024
It would be a waste of time to detail all of the issues with the US healthcare system, chief of which is the cost of medical coverage and, in spite of coverage, the way ordinary people can quickly rack up medical debt that takes away a lifetime of saving. Countless people have wondered why we can’t […]
Posted in: health care, medical insurance
The Robin Hoods of Tik Tok
January 22, 2024
In a world in which we learn to ignore others in order to protect ourselves, a handful of intrepid young people are making names for themselves by doing the exact opposite. They come from different backgrounds, different life experiences and different ways of doing things. They share two characteristics: They see people and choose not […]
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Jasmine Crockett
January 18, 2024
Life in the Boomer Lane has been entirely fed up with the There-are-no-longer-any-words-to-express-this behavior of Trump, his followers, the entire GOP in general, conservative media, people who know what is happening and choose to ignore it, and a whole bunch of other stuff that signals the end of democracy or of the world, whichever occurs […]
Posted in: politics
Mike Johnson vs The Freedom Caucus
January 11, 2024
As reported by Heather Cox Richardson on Sunday, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced they had reached a $1.66 trillion agreement to fund the government in 2024…Members of the Freedom Caucus immediately panned the agreement, well before it was actually printed. Random members of the Freedom Caucus were […]
The Etiquette of Threesomes
December 7, 2023
Life in the Boomer Lane has been vainly searching for anything to write about that has nothing to do with the Nazification of Trump, the downfall of American Democracy, the End of the World in General, or the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance. She hit paydirt with today’s post from her most favorite political commentator, Heather […]
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A Welcome
November 13, 2023
Several evenings ago, I attended a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” gathering for new residents. This was a bit different than what one might expect. The particular couple being welcomed were educated, financially successful professionals with three children, forced to flee from one African country to another, only to find out that the second country was […]
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