Category: Curmudgeonly Monday

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: D Is For Death, Burial, and Resurrection

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: D Is For Death, Burial, and Resurrection

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22340 – 806: Here’s the haps: (Sundays are a day off from the Challenge) Yesterday was celebrated as Easter Sunday. The circles I run in call it Resurrection Sunday but the term Easter is in the Bible. The almighty, invisible, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God created everything in…

  • Feelin’ A Lot Better But Not Quite Feelin’ Groovy – Throw It Back Thursday On A Mudgeonly Monday

    Feelin’ A Lot Better But Not Quite Feelin’ Groovy – Throw It Back Thursday On A Mudgeonly Monday

    (This post was scheduled for this Herbdate for 3/8/21 at 10:00 pm but when I went on the dashboard it just said, “Schedule Missed” and nothing else. Sorry.) Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22312 – 795: Here’s the haps: So, I am on the mend and feeling pretty not-too-awful. I was able to…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday On Saturday – Putting The “X” Back In Xmas & My Holiday Theme Song

    Curmudgeonly Monday On Saturday – Putting The “X” Back In Xmas & My Holiday Theme Song

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22191 – 755: Here’s the haps: Last year on Christmas Day I posted “Merry Xmas!” and was able to reason with the torch-bearing mob by explaining that putting an “X” in Christmas has been going on for a long time and in and of itself is not…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday – Columbus Day, and Indigenous Peoples Day, and Cultural Appropriation

    Curmudgeonly Monday – Columbus Day, and Indigenous Peoples Day, and Cultural Appropriation

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22165 – 735: Terminology comes and goes but in all generations there are derogatory terms that are insulting and should not ever be used. Growing up in the Sixties and being one of the few white kids attending a predominantly black school there were terms and phrases…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday On Throw It Back Thursday – Akismet Anti-Spam

    Curmudgeonly Monday On Throw It Back Thursday – Akismet Anti-Spam

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22126-697: I wish that the WordPress spam filter, Akismet, made some similitude of sense sometimes. I mean, I am glad to have it because if you have ever looked in your spam filter you will be quite shocked at some of the things. Since this last update…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday – The Constitution As Insurance – Repost

    Curmudgeonly Monday – The Constitution As Insurance – Repost

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22109-680: Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 16951 aka 07/04/2006: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday – WordPress Reader Comments

    Curmudgeonly Monday – WordPress Reader Comments

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22095-665: Quite some time ago it was brought to my attention that people said they liked my blog but were having difficulty commenting using the WordPress Reader. I loosened up a bunch of settings and thought I had fixed to problem. Nobody said any more about it.…

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