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Retired Lawyer; Amateur Historic Preservationist, Veteran; Husband; Father; History Buff; Travel Buff; Political Junkie. Not in any particular order.

DOB: Truman Administration

Gender: Male

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Occupation: Retired

Groups: Astro Kos, Oklahoma Roundup, SciTech, Nuclear Free DK, DK Gambling Law Forum, The H.L. Menken Society, Kossacks on Mars, Christie Investigations, Low Hanging Fruit in the House - 2014, St. Louis Kossacks, 50 State Strategy Project

Hobbies: blogging, poker, travel, reading

Diaries published: 851 (71 days since last diary on Thu Mar 11, 2021 at 06:29 PM PST)

Comments posted: 6251 (14 days since last comment on Sat May 08, 2021 at 12:18 AM PDT)

Diary frequency: frequent

Comment frequency: frequent

Total Recommends: 20300

Total Comment Ratings: 7213

Most Recommended Diary: Trump's Legal Team Has Made a Big Mistake. Will Congress Take Advantage?, 340 comments, 823 recommends

People Following LeftOfYou: 185

LeftOfYou's Most Recent Diaries:

How Dare Joe Biden Presume to Tell Americans With Whom They May Gather on July 4th
Near the end of the President’s just concluded prime time address to Americans, focusing on the new Administration’s response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, I peeked on my laptop to check to see if the Faux News Channel was even airing the official live...
by LeftOfYou
Comment Count 33 comments on Thu Mar 11, 2021 at 06:29 PM PST with 53 Recommends
I'm Finally Coming to Terms with My Southern Ancestors' Role as Slave Overseers on N. C. Plantations
After considerable time, I’ve started coming to terms with some facts about my family that I’ve inferred from research into our genealogy.  I started digging into the subject a couple of years ago after my nephew complained to me that he knew...
by LeftOfYou
Comment Count 39 comments on Sun Feb 28, 2021 at 03:43 PM PST with 43 Recommends
I Hate This TV Commercial, to the Point of Seething Rage
The first time I heard the TV commercial for Volvo’s $50k+, XC90, a bloated road hog, the hair on my neck twitched.  The ad’s tone-deaf choice of background music, with each of many repetitions, has fed more fuel onto the fire of my rage and...
by LeftOfYou
Comment Count 499 comments on Thu Feb 18, 2021 at 05:23 PM PST with 519 Recommends
It's Snowin' Down in Texas; all the 'Lectric Lines are Down
‘Yall best brace yourselves.  I don’t think that the horror of the disaster unfolding in Texas, from the current onslaught of Winter weather, has really begun to sink in to the rest of the country.   My 30 something daughter grew up...
by LeftOfYou
Comment Count 37 comments on Tue Feb 16, 2021 at 10:08 PM PST with 55 Recommends
Nullification Rears its Ugly Head in Ruby Red Republican Missouri
America’s first Constitutional Crisis over Nullification dates back to 1828 — 1832, when Trump’s favorite President, Andrew Jackson, faced down efforts by South Carolina to overturn the Constitutional supremacy of Federal laws imposing tariffs...
by LeftOfYou
Comment Count 15 comments on Sat Feb 06, 2021 at 10:41 AM PST with 28 Recommends
The Election's Aftermath Has Melted my Brain.
I never thought that mental illness was a contagious disease, but I’ve come to fear that the patently insane Chief Executive of this here country has passed on a significant case of mental and emotional discombobulation to my own self, and, perhaps,...
by LeftOfYou
Comment Count 9 comments on Mon Jan 04, 2021 at 10:56 AM PST with 27 Recommends

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