Fall is falling all around the country. Every year is the same. Every year is different. Every year there is something special to enjoy and probably fear, just a little bit. But! Yes an annually changing “but.” Every year brings something new to the table of life. We just have to learn to see it coming and either embrace it or get out of the way of things we can’t fix or … [Read more...]
The normal course of Senate business?
You gotta love New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. Police raided his home and found gold bars squirreled away here and there, as well as $550,000 in cash hidden in the clothes in his closet. The feds say he was taking bribes from three Egyptian businessmen. He said it came to him in the normal course of doing the work of a U.S. senator. Every senator in Washington, D.C., … [Read more...]
Washoe will decide presidency in 2024
You are more important than you ever thought you could ever be, dear fellow denizens of the High Desert Outback of the American Dream. I’ve been practicing (and malpracticing, in the auguste opinions of defeated opposition) Nevada follytix for over half a century. I proceed from a healthy respect for history, an unfashionable pursuit as we abandon English and revert to … [Read more...]
Astro advice
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A networking event will become a learning experience on the 21st and 22nd if you rub shoulders with people who share your sentiments. A passionate interpretation of how you see the future unfold will touch someone significant. Emotions will surface on the 23rd, causing confusion and concern regarding how to move forward. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): … [Read more...]
Is this you? Exploring vs. trespassing
That “Free Will” thingy that we all have within us is really something. I like my free will. It let’s me choose to have the salad or the ice cream. It makes it possible to choose to watch the documentary on the life of a gnat or the movie Air Force One just in anticipation of saying along with Harrison Ford, “Get off my plane.” Because there is no doubt we all know people to … [Read more...]
Can we (should we) fix James Bond?
I resent people fooling around with the literary classics of my youth. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn has been under fire for years. Twain used the “N-word.” Some want to change it to “slave,” to fit the modern ear. More recently, the publishers of Agatha Christie’s work plan to scrub her novels of words like “Oriental,” “Gypsy” and Native” in future printings. And now the … [Read more...]
Elon Musk, President of the United States
President Biden is supposed to be the most powerful man in the world because he controls the most formidable military. Alas, that mantle has now passed onto Athe egocentric shoulders of Nevada’s champion corporate welfare queen, Elon Musk. Last year, the richest man on the globe scuttled Ukrainian drones attacking the Russian fleet because he didn’t want to piss off his pal … [Read more...]
Is this you? Potato, Po-tot-toe
Yes of course I know potottoe is not a word that my computer understands. I tried po-tot-toe to see if that worked. Nope. So, I tried tomato, to-mot-toe. Nope. All I ask is that you indulge me. How in the world is a writer supposed write potato, potottoe, like the song goes, to start this story off. There have been some amazing sunsets in my neck of the woods this summer. I … [Read more...]