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By Chu The Cud | October 2026 When I was younger, going to the movies was one of the things you looked forward to doing on the weekend. Whether it was with a group of friends or a girlfriend at the time, it was a night out. A nice dinner that didn’t cost a fortune,Continue reading “The Return of the Movie Theater”

You know what doesn’t lower the price of gasoline, groceries, electricity, rent, or education? Looting stores. Burning down businesses. Destroying your own neighborhoods and cities. You cannot make life more affordable by destroying the very communities in which people are trying to make a living. Destruction is not an economic policy. And outrage is notContinue reading “You know what doesn’t lower the cost of living?”

By Chu The Cud At one time, we washed our clothes by hand. We spent hours preparing meals, cleaning our homes, and performing tasks that technology eventually made easier. We invented machines to give ourselves more time. But what did we do with that time? We filled it with more distractions, more demands, more consumption,Continue reading “The Screen of Existence”

By Chu The CudOctober 9, 2026 We raise our children to live in a world without us, confident in their ability to stand alone. And are left with the ignorance of what to do when they finally accomplish it. But it wasn’t just what I taught them. It was who they became. And, the houseContinue reading “Being Alone Makes All the Difference”

The Cud | October 2, 2026 The Boston Red Sox got swept by the Yankees in the Wild Card Series. It hurt. But I’m not going to let two games erase what happened over the previous five months. When Chad Tracy was called up from Triple-A Worcester to replace Alex Cora, he inherited a teamContinue reading “The Sweep Doesn’t Erase the Ride”

Life is a series of patterns. Some we inherit, some we create, and others we blindly follow without ever questioning why. Relationships, religion, politics, family, and society all operate through patterns. Some teach us integrity, discipline, and responsibility. Others demand obedience, reward conformity, and discourage independent thought. Yet when things go wrong, our first reactionContinue reading “Why is this happening to me?”

The time given was spent with lies. Time never returned once spent. Manipulated without cause, lies fall like rain. To care or not to care, that is the refrain. The web was made with children, the strongest bond. So was the knife that made me fall the first time. Healing leaves scars only seen fromContinue reading “Uncomfortable blindness”

For decades, the traditional arrangement was simple: the man went to work and financially supported the family, while the woman often stayed home and supported the family in a different way, raising the children, managing the household, taking them to school, activities, doctors, practices, and everything in between. That work had real value, even thoughContinue reading “You don’t get to rewrite the rules because the roles changed.”

Many people say they do not want data centers in their communities but they are often the same people who depend on them every day. Data centers power the phones in our pockets, the navigation and safety features in our cars, streaming services, social media, cloud storage, online banking, medical records, scientific research, weather forecasting,Continue reading “Too late to walk away”

Three children are dead. Their mother strangled them. Yet somehow, the story has shifted away from the three little children who lost their lives and toward the women who sat on the jury. Why is the jury room becoming the real courtroom, where the battle over innocence and guilt was actually fought? Three white womenContinue reading “The Propaganda Turnstile”