Author Archives: J.M. Wetherington Sr.

PolitiFact names 2025 the Year of the Lies

PolitiFact, an organization of fact-checking journalists who have, since 2007, published independent, transparent, and fair reporting with the aim to “give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy” has declared 2025 the Year of the Lies. … Continue reading

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Happy 60th Anniversary to “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

Sixty years ago tonight, on December 9, 1965, the soon-to-become-a-classic Christmas animated special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” aired on the CBS network for the first time. Happy 60th Anniversary to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” As a 10-year old, I was … Continue reading

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Happy National Princess Day

Today is National Princess Day and I wanted to send out Happy National Princess Day wishes to MY Princess. Here’s a recent photo we took together after Cindy and I gave Ann a Cabbage Patch Doll (Princess version) following our … Continue reading

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Superman #233 Original Cover Art Auction

Reading through my comic book RSS feed yesterday I saw where the Superman #233 original cover art by late artist Neal Adams was up for auction, 55 years after the comic book hit comic racks. This has always been one … Continue reading

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Our Actress Granddaughter

Our youngest granddaughter, Jade, has been performing in community theater projects for several years. We’ve been fortunate to be able to see some of those productions in person while visiting her in her home state, and many more via personally-made … Continue reading

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Happy 29th Anniversary Of Meeting Cindy

Tonight is the 29th anniversary of meeting Cindy, who turned out to be the love of my life. Here’s the story of that fateful night which I originally wrote about 12 years ago tonight.

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Holy Halloween, Batman!

Back on Halloween in 1966 I was 11 years old. The Batman TV Series had premiered on January 12th of that year and by the time Halloween rolled around 10 months later the comic book character had become a bonafide … Continue reading

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No Kings Protest in Statesboro, Georgia

Cindy and I happened to be staying nearby on October 18th, so we decided to take part in the No Kings Protest that was being held in Statesboro, Georgia. This was the first No Kings Protest we had attended, since … Continue reading

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National Kiss A Wrestler Day

October 5th of each year is observed as National Kiss A Wrestler Day and, since I’ve done a bit of wrestling but never gotten kissed for it, I thought we’d talk about that today. I may have mentioned before that … Continue reading

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Wolf Passed Away 15 Years Ago Today

Before Bella, there was Wolf. And Wolf passed away 15 years ago today, September 29, 2010. I wrote about that horrible night on this blog before. Even reading through it again today brought tears to my eyes and heaviness to … Continue reading

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