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)
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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Donald Trump is like that guy at the office who can't be fired because of who he knows or his family connections. The rest of us have to meet our quotas or serve our customers efficiently, without complaint, while stepping around him. We punch a time clock, and he comes to the office at his leisure, spends much of the day eating and watching television, and leaves…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The United States is one of the world's most dangerous countries thanks in large measure to politicians who have been bought and paid for by the gun industry - and benign neglect and insane decisions handed down by courts and, in particular, the US Supreme Court. Everybody in the USA who wants a gun, has a gun - and often several. Criminals have guns, spouse abusers…
by Pa Rock Entertainment Junkie Two of my favorite entertainers have passed away this week, and it's only Thursday. Dolly Parton died in Nashville on Tuesday, and stage and screen actor Tim Curry, expired yesterday in Los Angeles. Both were 80-years-old. (I will be eighty in just over eighteen months, so their demise has captured my attention. True story: yesterday I took the dogs to the vet for…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist American music icon, film star, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dolly Parton passed away yesterday at a cancer center in Nashville following a brief illness. Songs she wrote and recorded comprise a significant part of the American songbook and include such major hits as "I Will Always Love You, "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors," and "Nine to Five." Parton, who was…
by Pa Rock Family Historian Having been involved in the meddlesome hobby of digging up dead relatives (genealogy / family tree research) for over half a century, I have acquired more than just reams of information on my ancestors. I have also learned how to research families through newspaper files, school records courthouse records, and even cemeteries. I have mastered the use of microfiche…
by Pa Rock US Veteran A week ago yesterday I used this space to talk about the deplorable living and work conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an American aircraft carrier that has been at sea over nine months and has not has a port call in over eight months. Moral aboard that mighty vessel, which was then stationed in the Middle East, was so low that sailors were writing home and alerting…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist When Donald Trump first ran for the White House in 2016, he boasted that he could eliminate the national debt. That was, of course, before many Americans knew that they could never believe a word the old man said. The national debt was a whopping $19 trillion at the time Trump made that unhinged promise, and last week it climbed past $40 trillion and is still headed…
by Pa Rock US Veteran The Trump administration's ever-expanding war on democracy and freedom of the press has finally taken aim at the "Stars and Stripes," the de facto hometown newspaper for the nearly quarter million American service men and women who are stationed overseas, many of whom are living abroad with their families. Their other major news source besides the venerable "Stars and…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Donald Trump's rampaging vanity and never-ending push to get his name on things has resurfaced and escalated - this time to an . . . dare I say it . . . almost insane level. This story has to do with a Naval aircraft carrier currently under construction, a ship that was mentioned in this space a few days ago in a blog posting entitled "Ballrooms, Bankruptcy, and…
by Pa Rock Night Stalker Monday in a blog posting that had to do with the hot damn weather that my part of the Ozarks was experiencing, I happened to mention that I observed an old, medium-sized pickup truck towing a small pickup that had a large riding. lawn mower in its truck bed. I made the cynical observation that it seemed like a lot of trouble to go through just to steal a lawn mower. That…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist There has been considerable speculation on the internet of late with regard to a rather close relationship that Donald Trump seems to have with Natalie Harp who carries the titles "Special Assistant to the President" and "Executive Assistant to the President" and which generate a salary of $150,000 per year. Whatever her exact position in the federal government, Ms.…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist When I began hearing the term "Flock cameras" a few weeks ago, I thought it might have something to do with tracking the migrations of wild geese - or monarch butterflies - but just a bit of quick research revealed that it was a technology focused on the tracking of humans - and specifically humans in their ubiquitous cars. It seems like in this most recent "ICE Age,"…
by Pa Rock Weatherman (Note: The following is being penned on Sunday afternoon for posting Monday while I am on the road to beautiful Mountain Home, Arkansas, for a medical appointment - in case anything sounds chronologically off-kilter. It made sense as I wrote it, for the most part.) I lived in and around the Valley of Hell (Phoenix, Arizona, and its environs) for the better part of a decade,…
by Pa Rock US Veteran Yesterday I mentioned how military expert Donald J. Trump has ordered the US Navy to install 75-year-old steam catapult technology in its next generation of aircraft carriers instead of state of the art digital catapults currently in use by most militaries around the globe. Somebody told Donald that the new catapults require experts to perform repairs and that the old ones…
by Pa Rock Veteran Donald Trump missed his opportunity to put on a uniform and go to war for his country sixty years ago because of those danged ol' bone spurs - so now, with his current gig as "Commander in Chief" of our nation's armed forces, Trump is making up for lost time by imparting his military genius directly on our nation's fighting forces. Someone about ten years ago (perhaps a golfing…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist In February of 2025, one month after returning to the presidency, Donald Trump took physical control of the nation's premier performing arts venue - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - a center initially named by Congress as a memorial to President Kennedy. Trump fired the center's director and CEO and replaced more than half of its board of directors…
by Pa Rock Taxpayer Kristi Noem may be back in South Dakota trying to repair her personal life, but the out-of-control spending and legacy of cruelty she fostered at the Department of Homeland Security continues unabated. Yesterday there were stories in the press about a new policing tool that the Department of Homeland Security is bringing into its arsenal of offensive weaponry. A company called…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Showing that he is even less brave now than he was sixty years ago when he was focused on dodging the Vietnam War draft, word leaked to the Washington Post yesterday that Donald Trump participated in a subterfuge as he left Ankara, Turkey, early last month after attending the NATO summit. Acting on a tip that his flight might be the target of an attack by Iranian…
by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist A group of Democratic Party malcontents describing itself as "centerist" has budgeted $15 million to try and defeat other Democrats whom they regard as too far left. Of course they have. They're Democrats, aren't they? A hallmark of the Democratic Party is it's never ending drive toward self-destruction. (News reports now indicate that at least some of that money is…