Poker and Politics

      Like others, I learned the game sitting around the kitchen table with family and friends when I was in my teens a very long time ago. There was no internet then and no video games existed. We played various games and had social interaction that didn't involve a keyboard or microphone. I learned how to play Hearts, Cribbage, Chess and, of course, Poker.       Poker claimed my interest over the other games and it became a great past-time for those long winter nights growing up in Minnesota. I started playing regular weekend games at my neighbor Ron's house and we would keep them going til sunup most times. When I graduated, Ron got me a job at Whirlpool on the assembly line. Hard work but good money for those days.       Paydays would come and we used to cash our checks at the bar down the street from the factory. I was barely eighteen but the bar overlooked age if you had a paycheck to cash and spend. Ron introduced me to a gam...

 Welcome!  Let's set the record straight. I'm not a blogger.  I'm just an old man with too much time on his hands sitting in his garage babysitting his outside dog during the unbearable desert heat, I set up a portable cooler in here and bring Luna in every afternoon til it cools down in the evenings. It can get rather boring after awhile so I thought I'd give this a try.  When deciding what to write about, I thought about my stint in the Marines or one of the three full careers I've had in my 65 years. Then I remembered that I'm not writing a memoir so I decided to write about the two things that really get my attention these days, Poker and Politics! I know they may seem to be two completely unrelated subjects, but in another sense, they are closely related as I think the Left and the Right play poker with each other all the time.  So if either one of these topics peaks your curiosity, feel free to subscribe or just pop-in now and then to check things out. I...