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December 31, 2020
By Matthew E. Milliken
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Dec. 31, 2020
The pandemic, Donald Trump’s disgusting attempt to overturn election results and other political events weren’t the only things going on in December 2020, even if it sometimes felt like it. Here are the best of the rest from the final month in a year that seemed to last an eternity. Let’s hope that 2021 brings far, far better things than we saw during this past trip around the sun!
• Terrorism in Nashville
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December 1, 2020
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Dec. 1, 2020
Did you enjoy my tweets from the first half of November? Well, that’s exactly why I’ve collected even more tweets from the back end of the 11th month!
• Covid-19 pandemic
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Tags: 2020 presidential election, coronavirus, Covid-19, debate, Donald Trump, elections, Joe Biden, memomoment, pandemic, Twitter
November 30, 2020
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Nov. 30, 2020
Looks like we’re only 31 days away from the end of this wild plague-ridden year. Here are some tweets to help you reflect on the recent past — namely, Nov. 1 through 15 — and prepare for what may come.
• Election lead-up
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October 31, 2020
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Oct. 31, 2020
You want more tweets? All right, you can have more tweets. Enjoy, friends!
• The second debate
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Tags: 2020 presidential election, coronavirus, Covid-19, debate, Donald Trump, elections, Joe Biden, memomoment, pandemic, Twitter
October 31, 2020
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Oct. 31, 2020
Today on Cheeps and Chirps, we revisit Sept. 29 through Oct. 15.
October 2020 was a hectic month even going by the standards of this extraordinary year, so you’ll have to wait for another post to sample my microblogging from the past two weeks. Although, of course, you could always seek out these pearls of wisdom right from the source.
• The first debate
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Tags: 2020 presidential election, Chris Wallace, coronavirus, Covid-19, debate, Donald Trump, elections, Jeff Sessions, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, memomoment, Mike Pence, pandemic, Susan Page, Twitter
March 27, 2017
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
March 27, 2017
March Madness, the trademarked nickname for the collegiate basketball tournament that largely coincides with the third month, is such a catchy and popular term. Don’t the other 11 months deserve to have an equally slogan? Sure they do!
Herewith, I present the first draft of the MAC, a.k.a. the Milliken Action Calendar (trademark pending):
January Japery
February Fervor
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Tags: humor, lists, March Madness
June 18, 2016
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
June 18, 2016
Yesterday, I surveyed the troubled state of the campaign of New York real-estate mogul and reality-TV star Donald Trump. Today, I wanted to offer a modest proposal aimed at revitalizing his run for the presidency.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Trump is a master at grabbing the attention of the news media, largely because he says a lot of outrageous things. It’s a truth nearly as widely accepted, however, that an alarmingly high proportion of the outrageous things he says earn him condemnation.
My solution is simple: Turn the candidate’s liability into an asset by casting Trump as an archetypal sitcom character that everyone recognizes and loves.
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Tags: ALF (Alien Life Form), Ben Carson, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Chris Christie, Dennis the Menace, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Lil Trumpie, Our Gang, Paul Ryan, reality television, reality TV, The Apprentice, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Little Rascals
April 23, 2014
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
April 23, 2014
Two.
That’s the number of times this month that Antonin Scalia, the longest-sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice, has publicly suggested rebellion against the U.S. government.
The first instance took place in early April, at a Brooklyn Law School event. In a roundup of legal news, Joe Patrice restated the the episode this way: “Justice Scalia was asked, ‘Why should society be bound by laws that were passed only by white male property owners?’ If you guessed he’d eschew a substantive response in favor of a condescending sarcastic quip, you’re right!”
What was the quip? Let’s go to an April 8 Wall Street Journal article about Scalia’s visit to the school, which closed with an anecdote about the question that Patrice had highlighted. The justice, in reporter David Shapiro’s telling,
hesitated for a few seconds, longer than he had all evening. “That’s a reasonable position,” he smiled. “You people wanna make a revolt? Do it!”
Something not dissimilar happened last week, when Scalia delivered a lecture at the University of Tennessee law school. In response to a question, Scalia stated that the income tax is constitutional, “but if it reaches a certain point, perhaps you should revolt.”
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Tags: Antonin Scalia, federal government, Ronald Reagan, taxes
April 21, 2014
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
April 21, 2014
Yes, it’s another list — this time of unappealingly renamed sitcoms.
• Unhappy Days
• I Loathe Lucy
• The Cosby Shoe
• Mork Murders Mindy
• Laverne and Shirley and John Wayne Gacy
• It’s Always Grungy in Philadelphia
• How I Ate Your Mother
• Two and a Half Carcasses
• Family Bondage
• Alf Autopsy
• Everybody Punches Raymond
• Gilligan’s Graveyard
• Neinfeld
• Charles de Gaulle in Charge
• Charles in Chains
• The Gallstone Girls
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April 18, 2014
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
April 18, 2014
And now, this blog humbly presents some alternative, and far less appealing, names for some well-known (and otherwise) science fiction franchises.
• Star Bores
• Star Dreck
• Battlefarts Galactica
• The PG-13 Files
• Starship Bloopers
• All-But-Dissertation Who
• Agents of I.R.S.
• Blade Cleaner
• Peninsula of the Apes
• RoboMeterMaid
• Sept. 11, 2001: George Bush’s Odyssey
• Men in Gray Flannel Suits
• Fahrenheit 51
• Invasion of the Body Sculptors
• The Lamest American Zero
• Infinitesimal Leap
• Logan’s 5K
• seaQuest DVR
• The Six Million Dollar Hip Replacement
• Buck Rogers in the 21st Century
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Tags: humor, science fiction
July 17, 2013
By Matthew E. Milliken
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July 17, 2013
Man’s best friend. Man’s west bend. Man’s bed send. Man’s hedge bent. Man’s nest tends. Man’s quest ends. Man’s dread rends. Dan’s fed men. Fan’s edge fens. Tan’s hedge trends.
Man’s jest lends. Man’s breast condescends. Man’s test fends. Man’s vest mends. Man’s stressed wren. Man’s guest vend. Man’s dressed wen. Man’s pressed ten. Man’s pest Zen. Man’s zest wends. Man’s Midwest Brent. Man’s oppressed yen. Man’s incensed Ken. Man’s recessed Ben. Man’s depressed den. Man’s suppressed hen. Man’s progressed then.
Man’s chest pen. Man’s request lens. Man’s professed hem. Man’s rest descends. Man’s protest intends. Man’s interests rescind. Man’s coalesced oven. Man’s dispossessed clench. Man’s arrest trench. Vans suggest human. Crams southwest glen.
Man’s digressed inch. Man’s finessed bench. Man’s thirst quenched. Man’s infested mensch. Han’s regressed French.
Man’s obsessed finch. Man’s ingest dent. Man’s messed tent. Man’s tressed scent. Man’s compressed blend.
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July 10, 2013
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
July 10, 2013
15 Grumpy-Looking Cats
Seven Lively Sins
Great Britain’s 10 Best-Loved Prepositions
13 Exemplary Uses of Onomatopoeia in 20th-Century American Children’s Literature
O-High-Ohhh!: The 11 Longest Punts in Ohio Pop Warner Football
17 Dog-Goned Good Dogs
Cappuccin-O: Nine Cutting-Edge Coffeehouses in Eugene, Oregon
14 for ’14: Knitting Blogs that Will Keep You in Stitches in 2014
Poe-Tay-Toe, Poe-Tah-Toe: Six Top Word Pronunciation Controversies
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