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Horoscope: Thursday, May 28

Thursday, May 28 A fantasy becomes very much alive, offering you exciting experiences interspersed throughout your usual routines. Aries (March 21-April 19) Who owns a thing? The one who paid for it? Who uses it the most? The one who maintains it or loves it the most? Expect conflicting opinions, and perhaps there’s some sorting to do on the matter today. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Remembering to read the room before you engage it in any way will be the difference that allows you to make sales, win friends or turn strangers into fans. Take your time to observe individuals and ...

Husband’s jokes usually come at expense of spouse

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 12 years. Every time we go out to dinner with friends, he tells the same stories, or at least the same types of stories. The punch line is usually me. He’ll joke about the time I backed into the garage door or burned Thanksgiving rolls in 2017 like he’s performing a stand-up routine. He enjoys being the center of attention and making people laugh. Sometimes I laugh, too, but I always feel a pang of annoyance. If I tell him I’m annoyed, he’ll just say, “You were laughing!” — but it’s really the only thing I can think to ...

Support stockings not for sleeping

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m 70 years old, and my whole family is prone to edema, varicose veins and deep vein thrombosis due to venous insufficiency. I’ve been wearing support pantyhose for 45 years whenever I get dressed, and I recently increased the compression. While I’m sitting, I elevate my legs. I am otherwise healthy and not overweight, and I have no cardiac issues, just the edema. Usually I’m OK except when I’m traveling (especially in airplanes) or when I’m dining in restaurants as I must avoid salt intake, so it’s easier to stay home. My question is whether it’s OK to ...

Election autopsy is malpractice

The Democrats couldn’t complete their term paper, but handed it in anyway because too many people were wondering what had become of it. Under pressure, the DNC finally released its autopsy of the 2024 election, after rampant speculation about what it contained and why it hadn’t yet been made public. Did it include references to Gaza or didn’t it? Why or why not? What explosive revelations were being kept from us? It turns out that the autopsy is a thoroughly unimpressive, unfinished document that, in the sheer incompetence in its drafting and handling, says more about the low ...

America really needs more billionaires

Billionaires are getting a bad name. “Eat the rich” is the new mantra of the Left’s greed and envy lobby. Once upon a time, we saluted and celebrated America’s empire builders who got rich but created great industries that built the richest nation on earth. Now the Left in America demonizes them. We see the assault on wealth every day: wealth taxes, blue states are raising their income taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and many Democrats in Washington wanting to institute tax rates above 50%. But much of this rich-bashing isn’t based on fact. Robert Reich of the ...