Now that the big November day has passed and we are into left overs about a week, let’s talk turkey. Sandwiches, cold turkey sandwiches. If you are above a certain age, you should remember Dagwood, from the comic strip Blondie. Ole Dagwood could make the biggest stuffed sandwiches imaginable. The Dagwood Hero has roots that can only be said to be “belly busters.” Is that … [Read more...]
Oh, those offensive bird names!
I am not a bird watcher. I am a human watcher and that brings me to the same place today: Offensive Bird Names. The American Ornithological Society – and I promise you I am not making this up – has announced that it will rename all species of birds honoring people. Why? The New York Times explained it this way: Bird names derived from people can be harmful, exclusive and … [Read more...]
Bonfire of the Vampires
“Capitalism without regulation is tyranny” -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. If wealth connotes wisdom, then Rupert Murdoch is easily one of the wisest men in the world. Especially the “con” part. “Americans are retarded,” he smarmed decades ago as he was customizing his money-vacuuming media machine. Zounds. The America which evolved after he said that has indeed lived … [Read more...]
Reading the sign in signs
I don’t know about you but I can stand in a store and read every cute sign, cup, poster or printed note carried by a ceramic chicken tucked under one wing on a ceramic sign. I giggle at most of those little funnies. There are a few that I just scratch my head at. We all have minds that work independently. That’s what makes us all, us. That little bit if difference is the salt … [Read more...]
Biden won’t get younger, or better
David Axelrod, the brains behind Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency, spoke truth to power. It all went down last week as Mr. Biden celebrated his 81st birthday. First, Axelrod has been very public advocating Biden gracefully move aside and let younger candidates take a shot. Biden is then reported to have said: “David Axelrod is a prick,” to which Axelrod said: “I don’t … [Read more...]
Who will answer?
If the soul is darkened By a fear it cannot name If the mind is baffled When the rules don’t fit the game Who will answer? Never, EVER, play the other guy’s game. That sensible lesson resounds thru millennia from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” down to Damon Runyon’s streets of New York. Alas and alack, that’s exactly what brought us to World War Three -- which … [Read more...]
Is this you? Reading the sign in signs
I don’t know about you but I can stand in a store and read every cute sign, cup, poster or printed note carried by a ceramic chicken tucked under one wing on a ceramic sign. I giggle at most of those little funnies. There are a few that I just scratch my head at. We all have minds that work independently. That’s what makes us all, us. That little bit of difference is the salt … [Read more...]
To get ‘the shot’… or not?
Last time I looked at the national numbers, about 3% of Americans had received a COVID shot. Federal health care folk characterized that as “on track.” Far be it for me to second guess the national health brainiacs who brought us ideas like one-way arrows on the floors of grocery stores, but I think we’re far from on track. I say this because last week I had my annual … [Read more...]