There are things that I think most of us might agree with. Like after a great meal of perfectly yummy tacos most of us have said, “Man I could eat nothing but tacos for the rest of my life.” I know I’ve heard something along those lines by others over the years. Like having chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and really cold milk for every meal from now until the end of … [Read more...]
From one scoundrel to the next
Even though my old newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, spent many-a column inches chronicling (and sometimes exposing) the self-serving duplicity of Nevada’s late U.S. Senator Harry Reid, I didn’t say a thing when McCarran International Airport was re-named after him. McCarran was a scoundrel in his time, so why not keep the tradition going. Plus, if we’re going to be … [Read more...]
A brief history of the end of the world
“Thou shalt not kill.” -- God I don’t remember Moses (or was it Charlton Heston?) including any list of exceptions to that order. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention. Alas and alack, World War Three has already begun. Of 195 countries on this little blue marble, 110 are currently shooting, according to the Geneva Academy. That’s well over half, 56 percent. The world’s … [Read more...]
Is this you? Time to wait on weight
Yes, there are those among us that never seem to worry about what size to pick up when shopping for new jeans. They usually just pic a pair of size 10 or my stars a size 0! While I in my life I grab at least a 12 and work up from there. We shall not even talk about tops. AARRGGHH However I have recently seen this posted here and there from my silly friends on Facebook, “I don’t … [Read more...]
Playing the‘Greater Idaho’ game
I watch the “Greater Idaho” movement like I watch a cricket match – with a strange and curious attraction. For those who don’t know, there’s a movement to pull the counties on the eastern side of Oregon into the abutting state of Idaho to make a more simpatico “Greater Idaho” state. Why? Because politically and culturally, the coastal side of Oregon, which holds the … [Read more...]
Letter to the Lord of War
“I have no mother now. I have no father. I cannot bring another brother to the world.” — Antigone You got him at last, Mars, Lord of War. My bro cheated your curses for 56 years but you finally took him last week, you devil’s spawn of rabid dogs. In his final days, you mocked him with your dandy little sport in Ukraine. Then, you shamed him with the beginnings of what … [Read more...]
Is this You? Ignoring the Obvious
I have the cutest little candy dish on a counter in my kitchen. It is clear glass, holds about a package of Hersey’s Cookie and Cream chocolate kisses and maybe a few Dark Chocolate Caramel Rolos candies. The thing that makes it so cute is that it has little glass feet on it. I added it to my menagerie of dishes and do dads that found a home with me along my life’s trail. The … [Read more...]
Hamas sealed its own fate
Hamas sealed its own fate with this month’s brutal attack on Israel. In the pantheon of human depravity, Hamas now must be put on the same shelf as the Greater German Reich in the ‘30s and ‘40s. If you are Hamas, then you must be treated like a Nazi war criminal in the world community. If you support Hamas – as some American liberals do – then you must be treated with all … [Read more...]