Tom’s Substack
Tom CalabrettaLife through the eyes of a Tonto fan. Essays may be thoughtful or humorous, but are intended to provoke new thoughts. Notes are usually rants or brain farts. "Have fun today" is my Pole Star.
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Mrs. Wilson, My Quirky English Teacher
Women of the 1950’s took a painstaking amount of time to dress before they ever dared to walk out of the door. Underpants, a bra, a girdle with little stocking clasps attached along the bottom hem, a slip and then, a dress. Her stockings ha...
Suicide by Proxy
The Lindsay Clancy case dislodged something from deep in the recesses of my memory: a disturbing epidemic that occurred in the American Colonies, and in Western and Central Europe between 1650 and 1750.
woman entering foreboding alley
At...
Mussolini Bit His Weenie
Photo by Sonhador Trindade on Unsplash
Before you start tsk, tsk’ing me for such crude language, remember this is a jump rope song the girls in my elementary school were singing while I was an impressionable first grader.
Whistle while yo...
Build-A-Terrorist, Revisited
Originally published June 25, 2025
Why is child rape an integral part of the Taliban culture? It creates rabid, murderous young killers to further their goals. Read the book The Kite Runner to understand how debasing boys and...
This Is Not an Orange Shirt I am Wearing
There are so many obvious and subtle differences between men and women, beyond their outward appearances. One specific difference is that, if it didn’t exist in the 64-count box of Crayola crayons, it isn’t an actual color. “Periwinkle” isn...
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Navy Vet who is easily bored, I was a television technical director, been a spy, a retail store manager, an insurance executive, a software database analyst, a school recruiter, a hair products distributer and a website consultant.
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