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Michael Rosenbaum

@dadwrites.bsky.social
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Fearlessly creating a safe space for common sense and humor on the internet. Start-up mentor, award-winning author, blogging at www.dadwrites.com, definitely a work in progress. I follow and reply to interesting people, while avoiding parrots and sheep.

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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We think we have enough time...and then you get the phone call. medium.com/@michael_669...
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The conversation I’ll never have
You always think you’ll have more time…and then you don’t.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Why is it always Taco Bell?
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Without any doubt, hoarders are saving us from Armageddon. We are not worthy. www.dadwrites.com/blog/hoarder...
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Hoarders are our true heroes
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Cannot wait for the smoked meat and bourbon... medium.com/@michael_669...
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Happy Mother’s Day Lite
Yippeee!!! Father’s Day is on the horizon and, once again, we’re here to give you the most absolutely perfect advice about how to celebrate…
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Critical thinking versus rote learning? Yes, please, and more musings for this week. medium.com/@michael_669...
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Kids should be more critical
We should be encouraging kids to be more critical, and the miracle of breath mints, among the many brain storms bumping around these days…
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The only way to know the difference is to ask Uncle Kenny to climb a tree. www.dadwrites.com/blog/sloth-o...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We're at peak pique right now, but I still wonder if we've really given this enough of our attention. medium.com/@michael_669...
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Have we really thought this through?
Like most of my elderly peers, I can’t remember where I parked the car or why I’m sporting a fake mustache and wearing a tutu on the bus…
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
What's the Latin word for fear of vegetables? medium.com/@michael_669...
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The vegetables are dead, right?
Sharing a word to the whys this week as my befuddlement expands…
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So, I've decided to give Medium a try, so check out this post about what a liar I am. medium.com/@michael_669...
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Dishonesty is the best policy
I like to think of myself as a fairly honest bloke, but it occurs to me that I end up saying things that aren’t exactly, 100% true from…
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
www.dadwrites.com/blog
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Blog | Dadsmarts, humor and stories from a dad, mentor and Book Coach
Humor, insights and stories from life by a start-up mentor, book coach and award-winning author.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
They say you get what you measure in business, but that means you can be handing out huge bonuses on the way to bankruptcy court... www.dadwrites.com/blog/hire-mo...
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Hire more people to save big bucks
The plane is already at the gate when I arrive, the skies are clear, and there’s no reason to expect any delays on my morning flight. Foolish mortal, what was I thinking? Of course, there’s a...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Papparazzi in New Mexico
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Welcome to retailing 2025. www.dadwrites.com/blog/please-...
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Please take our survey, please please please
Message and data rates might apply. 10:03: (Ping) Welcome to our store. Please take this brief survey about the sidewalk outside our entrance. 10:03:02 (Ping) On a scale of 1-47, how easy was it to...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So sorry your job is about to get whacked, but... www.dadwrites.com/blog/is-your...
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Is your job next? Well, yes, and here's why...
After we explained everything our readers need to know about the economy last month, we’ve been inundated with new questions about where we’re headed, especially when it comes to jobs. No...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Yes, absolutely guaranteed financial returns. What could possibly go wrong? www.dadwrites.com/blog/yes-wer...
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Yes, we're offering guaranteed financial returns
As the stock market struggles to get even more overvalued and the government decides it’s a great idea to buy in at the top, it’s time, once again, for the financial geniuses at Dad Writes to...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Right wingers must not have liked Charlie Kirk. None of them is sending any thoughts and prayers.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Has anyone in the media published any kind of estimate for crowd size at the Trump parade? Lots of stories saying it was below 200k or sparse, or whatever, but I cannot find an actual crowd size estimate like we ALWAYS see. WTF is going on?
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
More Father's Day musings: Why is it Father’s Day and not Dad’s Day? I don’t know anyone who walks in the door and yells, “Father, I’m home.” “Dad” is so much friendlier and warm, although I’d stop there. “Daddy” would just seem to cross a line or two. Or three.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Father's Day puzzle: What to buy a WFH dad? No ties, and he already has a “#1 Dad” coffee cup…I see why people pass along gift cards like last year’s fruitcake. WFH is great, though. No fights on the day after FD when two guys show up with identical “World’s Best Dad” coffee cups.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Another Father's Day question: Does anyone hire a physical trainer to help them get a dad bod? Can a dad bod ever be a turn-on, even if it’s only to women who are tired of grandfather bods? Asking for a friend.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If dad spends Sunday morning playing golf and then he takes a nap while mom makes dinner, how will he know it’s Father’s Day?
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This will not end well, and my right-wing Jewish friends will be the most surprised by the obvious.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The honored dead that nobody mourns this holiday...
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We can't remember their sacrifice
The flash of white pulled me away from the conversation as I refocused on the rows of crosses along the countryside. The uniformity and precise alignment of the memorials announced a military...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Eggs just have more rizz than potatoes, I guess...
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Exactly who came up with that idea?
The real innovators, my favorite barfly, and the hidden sex appeal of eggs are all haunting me this week. They can be haunting you, too, if you read on… O’ PIONEERS! Every so often, I wonder...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis, and that's the goal for the people creating the real chaos.
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Wake me when it's a crisis crisis
I’m cleaning out some old emails and there’s a note from a guy about getting out of New Orleans the day before the terrorist attack. Huh? Oh, yeah, there was a terrorist attack—some guy ramming...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mothers Day, known in literary circles as the Day of Confused Apostrophes. Is it for all mothers, so it's Mothers’ Day, or for individual mothers, as in Mother’s Day? It it's only for happy mothers, it's Happy-Mothers Day? Or maybe nobody owns it, so it's just Mothers Day. I'm so confused.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I want to run a federal agency, so I'm applying for a job at Fox News.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
When I'm drinking bourbon and telling you it's sobriety...
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Lincoln and Twain had the right idea
There’s an old story about Abe Lincoln asking an audience how many legs a dog would have it you called a tail a leg. The audience said five, but he reminded them it was still four, because calling...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Sigh
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It's already too late, but we're still acting as if there's time on the clock.
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We've burned the ships and cannot return
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the most fragile and irreparable thing in this world: Trust. People sometimes talk about rebuilding it after a breach, but there’s a major bit of...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
With all the news stories about Trump backing down after backlash from Wall Street, you'd think nobody predicted this, except...
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You'll never guess who's going to save us
Looking across the blighted landscape of our Republic, it’s impossible to ignore the shattered guard rails and demolished institutions that, not so long ago, hummed very softly as they completed...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When does Vance visit the White House next? Asking for a friend.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Only the C students can save us now.
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People who don't need people are...
Add this one to the list of things that were always true and, somehow, turned upside down. We’re already seeing the damage, but I haven’t seen much awareness of the cause. Historically, the world...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
What could possibly go wrong? "Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round."
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Federal Workers Jump at Buyout Offers They Once Shunned
(Bloomberg) -- Federal workers who scoffed when they first received Elon Musk’s infamous “Fork in the Road” buyout initiative are taking different tack now that there is a second offer on the table: s...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It's invisible, liberals hate it, and it's probably the only thing that's going to save us.
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You'll never guess who's going to save us
Looking across the blighted landscape of our Republic, it’s impossible to ignore the shattered guard rails and demolished institutions that, not so long ago, hummed very softly as they completed...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Washington is closer than people think. Post Offices, Social Security offices and VA hospitals close, cancer screening and after-school programs end, and suddenly we appreciate the pork-barrel projects we all love to hate. We’re all getting a lesson in civics, the hard way.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We expect tons of bravery from other people as Trump rains vengeance on his enemies. Whether it’s Columbia or Paul Weiss or the bureaucrat who gets doxed by DOGE, we expect them to fight to the death. The rest of us gave in and we’re bagging our own groceries, but Trump targets must be superheroes.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Please stop saying we did this to ourselves. WE didn't do this. Trump did this. And while millions voted for him, he received less than half the total votes cast.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Scorecards! Get your scorecards!! Can't tell the tariffs without the scorecards!!! Just don't fill them out in ink.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Two absolutely consistent statements I’m hearing from my Trumpian friends: “He’s delivering exactly what he promised,” and “You can’t take him literally.” I hear the next Olympics will have a competition for mental gymnastics and the U.S. team is guaranteed gold.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I’ve never been sold on this whole reincarnation thing, but I’m becoming a true believer. Measles was declared dead a quarter century ago and now, like Lazarus, it’s walking tall again. Can’t wait to see what happens with polio and smallpox and, dare I hope, the Black Death.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So what happens when all the tech bros need to cash in their crypto to make ends meet?
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Even more winning: That's 275,000 jobs those danged furriners won't be able to steal anymore.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yes, everybody saw this coming but, I swear, nobody could possibly have seen this coming. Except for everybody.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#ETTD ! Now bigger and better than ever.
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Trump's big crypto push is one of our strongest tools for fighting inflation, as thousands of new currencies are introduced ...
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So much winning, but you're missing it
Isn’t it just like the lame-stream media and left-coast liberals to complain about every little problem they suddenly noticed after January 20? There’s a nit here and a nit there, but we’ve...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
How can liberals win by ignoring racists and loving white men? Sometimes, success strategies aren't as obvious as we think...
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Don't give up hope, liberals!!
In the days when I was much, much worse at reading a room, I pushed a client relentlessly to make a change to their financials that would bring them in line with their industry. The CEO smiled and...
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Michael Rosenbaum @dadwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Stop praising Musk. Yeah, you think he’s evil, but you keep referring to him as...
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Don't give up hope, liberals!!
In the days when I was much, much worse at reading a room, I pushed a client relentlessly to make a change to their financials that would bring them in line with their industry. The CEO smiled and...
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