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The Director Of Retribution
July 12, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Back in 2017, Ivan Raiklin, a former Green Beret and then currently serving active duty in the National Guard, ran 1776 miles across Virginia to bring awareness to the issue of veteran suicide. He also ran to see if he could get enough money to make a run for the US Senate. He did this […]
Posted in: politicians, politics
The Presidential Debate 2024
June 26, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
While, technically, the history of presidential debates began in 1960, debates in general started well before that. The first debates were, indeed, public, since everything humans did, including pooping and copulation, was public. And yes, there was usually a topic at hand (fighting over food or women or accusing someone of pushing them into a […]
Posted in: politicians, politics
I’m Christian and You’re Wrong
June 17, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The Children’s Crusade and lobster pee both fall into the general category of inexplicable things. Life in the Boomer Lane can’t speak much about lobster pee (except to note that lobsters pee out of their faces), but she can speak a bit about the Children’s Crusade, as a metaphor for our current political climate. The […]
Aging Safety Denied
May 24, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has been entirely too preoccupied with the daily Amazon truck arrival to notice much else going on around her. Then just a couple days ago, she saw something that catapulted her into action. It was a photo of the Trump master bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, showing an entire shitload of stacked […]
Eric Swalwell
March 4, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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, […]
Posted in: politicians, politics
It’s Only A Number Take 2
February 21, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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
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Wisdom Gained in K Thru 2
July 18, 2024
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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Life in the Boomer Lane has been thinking a lot, lately, about Cowboys and Indians. She has visual evidence of how important Cowboys were in her early life when she looks at her second grade school photo. Virtually every boy was wearing a plaid shirt or a solid color shirt with fringe or embroidery, that […]