My name is Don MacLeod, and I’ve spent decades in media, marketing, entertainment, and events, which means I’ve seen the serious, the absurd, and everything in between. 22,000 Days+ is a record of where I’ve been and what I’m noticing now. Not a diary, not a lecture—just my perspective.
This space is my way of pulling those threads together—today’s headlines, cultural moments that stick, and the occasional story from the past that still deserves a spotlight. Some posts will make you laugh, some might make you roll your eyes, and a few could make you think twice. That mix is the point: after 22,000 wake ups, the view gets interesting. Alex Karp — Palantir’s billionaire CEO, Stanford JD, philosophy PhD from Goethe University — just told the world that his own credentials are basically worthless now. “There are basically two… Rapper Afroman — whose real name is Joseph Foreman— won a lawsuit against the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio after deputies raided his home in 2022, and he turned… The first time someone told me about forest bathing, I pictured a guy in a clawfoot tub surrounded by pine trees. Wrong. Turns out forest bathing stress relief is just…… The Phillipsburg Police Department in New Jersey has been posting videos of drivers blowing past stopped school buses since October 2025. Not warnings. Not PSAs. Not “please be careful out… CBS News Radio is done. Not struggling. Not “pivoting to digital.” Done. After a century—through the Depression, World War II, Kennedy’s assassination, 9/11, every hurricane, every blackout, every moment when…
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Adams County, PA Sheriff: “We Did Not Arrest Afroman. Check the Map.”
Forest Bathing Cures Stress — Your Grandma Called It Sunday Afternoon
Phillipsburg Cops Found a Way to Make Drivers Actually Stop for School Buses
CBS News Radio Dies at 100: What We Just Lost
