Even though conventional wisdom states, “If you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there,” I’m guessing a good number of you Baby Boomers reading this column do remember most of that coming-of-age decade anyway. I entered 1960 as fat, nerdy, eighth-grade kid and left 1969 as lean, mean, olive drab,
I’m so thankful this Thanksgiving that those nutty midterm elections have passed and turned out fairly well. Now I don’t have to relocate to Canada and get stressed out building an igloo or eating whale blubber. Political commercials, be gone! Surely I jest. They’re all ready popping up. Now that
By the time you read this column (and I hope you are, because if you’re not there’s no need for me to waste precious space adding this parenthetical insert, which I just did), the midterms will be a thing of the past and, depending on the results, I’ll either be
Scooby-doo’s Velma is gay? Say it ain’t so, Joe. This could signal the end of civilization as we know it. What’s next, purple M&Ms? We’re rapidly approaching Armageddon. I’m thankful I didn’t hear this news over the car radio while I was driving on the expressway because I surely would
After a visit to my doctor, it was once again time to add a prescription to my roster of medications for mysterious maladies affecting me, maladies that can’t be controlled by consuming mass quantities of Bud Lite. I picked up my new prescription, some medication I hadn’t had the pleasure
There seems to be a lot happening recently. Very little of it in my head, unfortunately, but out in the real world, the one that a sizable portion of we human-types inhabit. I was sorry to hear of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, although I did witness her passing
Who’s Your Daddy? Some time back after watching an episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS, I became interested in finding my own. Provided they weren’t buried under the asphalt of a Walmart parking lot, I secretly hoped I might have family ties to Pee Wee Herman or Gumby. Being
There are a couple of things I want to get out of the way. Recently, Mr. Bill “QAnon” Suhayda descended from the mother ship (where he’s been busy deflecting Jewish space lasers and, with the My Pillow Guy, searching through cyberspace to find the missing Trump votes hijacked from Dominion
By now, unless you’ve been living in a cave or Washington, D.C., you’ve come to realize that climate change is real. It happens every few thousand years due to the Earth’s wobble on its axis. That’s just life in the big city and there’s nothing Earthlings can do about it.
Have you been watching the January 6 committee hearings? Donald Trump’s last days were far worse than we thought. True to form, Trump has said everyone is lying, but him. What else would you expect from the man who told 30,000-plus lies while in office? Now the committee is focusing
I trust you all lived through the Fourth of July this year. If you didn’t, you probably won’t be reading this column In the last couple of days I’ve been noticing complaints by neighbors about the high gas prices in Illinois, which always have been the highest in the Midwest.
Dare I mention it? By the time you read this narrative, I will have had another colonoscopy. I’m not complaining about the procedure per se, because it’s actually like a weekend in Bermuda and over almost before you know it has begun. The 27 gallons of prep fluid you have
Thoughts of Summer and vacations brought to what remains of my mind, an unplanned adventure that took place on a teenage Route 66 road trip to California with a couple of friends. When we drove through Arizona we saw a sign for the Meteor Crater. It was a slight diversion,
Did you hear Donald Trump is writing a book? (I like to start out with something funny just like Joel Osteen.) Trump said it, so it’s probably not true. If it is, his biggest hurdle is that he’ll actually have to read a book to find out what goes into
Maybe one night when you’re out in the country, somewhere far away from the noise and lights of the city, the chirping of the crickets the only sound you hear while you’re looking up at the night sky with its thousands of brilliant, twinkling, stars, will you wonder how long
One of the most utterly stupid events in a long line of utterly stupid events perpetrated by the GOP (unfortunately for them) took place in Florida, where Donald Trump wanna-be Ron “I’ll Cancel It If I Don’t Like It” DeSantis rejected math books for school children because they contained elements
Last week, it was interesting to see an educated, high-IQ person such as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson being badgered with questions from a group of low-IQ, slug wannabes. One GOP senator, Kevin Cramer, somewhat semi-apologized for his colleagues who were asking stupid questions just to get attention and be invited
There was an interesting article in The Washington Post recently about the Dunning-Kruger effect, which suddenly has become popular. It should not be confused with the Dummy-Knucklehead effect, which was prevalent in the late 1950s and early 1960s and manifested itself mainly among young people sniffing airplane glue so they
It finally happened. Even though beloved comrade Vladimir Putin said he had no intention of invading the Ukraine when he piled up his storm-troopers, artillery, and medical equipment on three sides of the country, his militia paid Ukrainians a friendly visit with tanks and anything capable of firing bullets and
While Super Bowl XX@LVI%$DD?Q was reserving its place in the history books, it was stirring up some of my personal football memories, most of them being my gasping for air under a pile of every kid from the opposing side. Later, I did have a girlfriend who was one of
