Above: Grays Harbor – looking south towards Westport.
From 1976 Bicentennial To USA 250
TV Ads
Today, overweight people are hired to do TV Ads for pharmaceutical drugs used to achieve weight loss.
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Breaking Points
Back in 1976, people shown on TV seemed less likely to be overweight. Something like the ship’s crew seen on the The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, or Reality TV when I was a kid:
50 years from adolescent males backpacking on overnight Boy Scout outings to role models for profit on TV and reaching for injections and pills in order to deal with being fat.
USA 250
Same country that stages a big celebration of freedom and independence from a powerful central government each July 4th.
Today:
Leader is not pleased with entertainment choices:
Trump calls Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show a ‘slap in the face to our country’
By Nadine El-Bawab – ABC News
Feb 8, 2026
US History
Puerto Rican Medal of Honor recipients:
Remembering the fallen: Puerto Rican Medal of Honor recipients
By Sgt. 1st Class Deziree Lau 99th Readiness Division
Puerto Ricans Represented Throughout U.S. Military History
By Shannon Collins – DOD News
Oct. 14, 2016
What Others Are Saying
Tennessee Brando
TYT Sports
Journalism funded by advocacy groups:
Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Feb 7, 2026
Misinformation in the Seattle TImes About Drought, Snowpack, and Climate Change
Old Man Blog category:
Thoughts on changes in American culture relating to those born roughly in the late 50s & early 60s.
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