The remnants of Ex-Hurricane (now Tropical Depression) Nicole are passing by. How do we know this? Here are clues: 1. 9:45 AM, the radio squeals its alarming BEEP!” And do we have a basement? No. 2. 10:15 AM: Sunshine, and our Cosmos blooms have cutesy raindrops on the stems.
[NOTE: No! This post was not taken from The Onion. Again NO! It was not written by the New Yorker’s brilliant Andy Borowitz. And honest, I can’t make this stuff up! It’s from today’s issue of the very staid & sober, thrice Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the Raleigh News & Observer. That doesn’t make the subject any … Continue reading Breaking! Texas Pete Hot Sauce Drenched by False Advertising Lawsuit
In The Yard: Only the toughest Zinnias survive the Morning Glories . . . There are still a scattering of roses among the yellow-green Japonica . . . And feeling adventurous, we went to a rare lunch out . . . At the favorite Hispanic/Salvadoran place, where prices are up, alas, but comfort food is … Continue reading In The Yard . . . And Beyond (A Little Way)
While a restless teenager the somnolent late 1950s, I discovered MAD by accident, and it became a rare but longed-for survival tool. In and after the Sixties, it wasn’t so cool, but still. And today it yet survives, in a now-and-then form, and has reached a landmark that maybe you have to be of a … Continue reading OMG!! MAD Magazine is Seventy!
In a recent speech at Independence Hall, President Biden called on Americans to stand against an assault on democracy — the ongoing assault waged by insurrectionists and would-be patriots, by election deniers and other extremists. “We are not powerless in the face of these threats,” he insisted. “We are not bystanders.” Yet that role — … Continue reading Monday, Monday — Can’t Trust That Day! The Supreme Court Will Be Back