“Mr. X, may we ask you a question? It’s amazing, is it not, that the city pays you slightly less than fifty bucks a week, yet you’ve purchased a private yacht?” “X: I am positive your honor must be joking! Any working man can do what I have done. For a month or two I simply gave up smoking, and I put my extra pennies one by one, into… “A little tin box, a little tin … [Read more...]
Is This You? A World’s Fair Has No Comparison to Intimate County Fairs
The answer is yes. There are still world’s fairs. The next one, oh wait. By the way they are no longer called world’s fairs. They are World Expos. The next World Expo will take place in Osaka, Kansai, Japan between April 13th and October 13, 2025. Not sure about you, but. Yes a world wide “but.” I will not be attending the World Expo in Japan. I can’t imagine all the things … [Read more...]
The apogee of the apocalypse
Everybody knows the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes. Everybody knows. -- Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016 This here news junkie has become so sick of the 24/7 Donald Xi Putin … [Read more...]
Our overly ripe vegetables in Congress
At what point does something like the spectacle going on right now in the halls of Congress with Dianne Feinstein become unbearable? How about today? Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not against old people in Congress. But, if you reach a stage in which you can no longer do the work – as clearly Dianne Feinstein has – you ought to step down and let someone else take … [Read more...]
Cutting Bangs Is An Art
Often when things come up I am still amazed that the boy girl chasm isn’t all that far apart. Like hair. Hair on our heads only! But! Yes a hairy “but.” Off the head hair could cause sensitive conversations. So I best stick to head hair. Wild and wiry. Long and wispy or short and spiky. Actually the hair on heads is something that has many discussion points. Some of us … [Read more...]
Let’s call it what it is: A book shakedown
It’s good to be the president, to paraphrase Mel Brooks in the movie “History of the World, Part I.” “Poor” presidents, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, become immensely rich from book deals and speaking engagements after their time in office. “Rich” presidents do it too. Donald Trump earned more than $12 million in speaking fees and at least $13 million from overseas … [Read more...]
Miss Priscilla Goodbody channels Princess Cassandra
The seer of Troy warned against letting that towering wooden horse through the city’s gates. Alas, no one listened to Princess Cassandra. America today stands at the precipice of becoming an electoral autocracy, a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy. Modern Cassandras have warned and warned again. The evidence abounds from local Nevada governments all the way up to … [Read more...]
Our Noses Have Preferences
It’s July. Outside I have some strategically placed Russian Olives trees that bloom this time of the year. Every year. I can tell through spring and into summer by wonderful smells that float in my yard how far we are into summer. But the Russian Olive trees are by far my favorite. When the mornings are calm with just the lightest poof of a breeze the honey thick air moves … [Read more...]