When my lovely wife used to leave for work each morning, I nearly always said the same thing to her: “Have a wonderful day.” In the context in which I said this, “wonderful” is a synonym for “terrific” or “great.” I think that’s probably the way most of us use the word “wonderful” these days. …
The older you get, the more people you lose. The more people you miss. The first person I lost wasn’t because of death. I lost my father when I was 2 years old because he left my mother. I never saw him again and I never learned very much about him. I can’t really say …
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Apparently Donald Trump did not have his pants on backward when he addressed North Carolina Republicans Saturday. Photos made it on line after the event that purported to show Trump with his pants bunched weirdly in the front and without a visible zipper. The photos became so popular they trended on Twitter as #TrumpPants, and …
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“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. …
I worked as a newspaperman for nearly 30 years, and I had the opportunity to cover a lot of great stories all over the country. I worked at big papers and small ones, for small independent papers and big chains. But in all those years — good times and bad times — I don’t think …
I hate to start a post with a vulgarity, but it may be appropriate here. What if the sign was more like this: “I can’t get enough help these days because government aid during the pandemic had made it possible for people not to work for assholes like me who don’t pay well or treat …
Brace yourself, Bridget. Actually, that’s an old joke about Irish foreplay, but it can be used as a warning to be prepared for something shocking. So here goes. I think we may be getting close to the time we will have to abolish the Republican Party if we want to preserve American Democracy. No shit, …
I first wrote this in 2009, shortly after President Obama took office. With a little revision and addition, it still seems extremely appropriate. Even if it predates and never mentions Donald Trump. *** I am so tired of hearing about reverse racism. That’s the big new thing on the right, since they realized that all …
We get letters. Actually, we don’t, but I came of age right around the time the National Lampoon began publishing, and one of the most fascinating features in the magazine was letters to the editor that were actually fake. For example: To the editor: Has anyone seen my head? I appear to have misplaced it …
My friend Mick made an interesting comment in response to something on Facebook some months back, and while I have forgotten the topic, I’ve never forgotten his comment. “This is not the world it could have been.” A truly fascinating comment, but one that is about as open-ended as they come. Not the world it …
