It is 2:20 in the morning of the 4th of January, 2025. I am sitting at my computer in my underwear because sleep eludes me. I have two slices of bread, butter and peanut butter and a Mason jar of hot decaf tea. This early morning reading is a new activity I am trying to […]
The day before Christmas was fun, exploring the cluttered aisles of a local dollar store. Christmas day was sheer gluttony with friends. The day after Christmas left much to be desired. I ended up in the urgent care clinic from 10 a.m. to just past midnight lying on a narrow cot and listening as four […]
Everyone should, at least once, spend some time in a dollar store the day before Christmas. These establishments are perhaps the only places left where in inflationary times, ten dollars will get you two plastic shopping bags full of merchandise. Dollar stores make no excuse for a delightful, almost unamerican, disorderliness. There’s stuff spilling from […]
The Revolution is coming. Maybe. I can’t be sure. I’m not a seer so any prognostication I make does not carry a money back guarantee. Plus, I don’t want to scare anyone. I’m basing my oh-so-tentative belief on the recent New York assassination of Brian Thompson, the 50-year-old CEO of UnitedHealthcare. I don’t condone murder. […]
For decades prior to his death, Art Buchwald’s column Explaining Thanksgiving to the French ran in The Washington Post on Thanksgiving Day. Art is no longer with us and the Post no longer carries it, so here it is. This confidential column was leaked to me by a high government official in the Plymouth colony on the condition that I not reveal his […]
