Author: Louis Cannon

79 delegates didn’t vote at all. Maybe they were on vacation, or in the hospital, or simply in a bad mood…

Sure, it’s a friendly little town, full of nice people.  But to be perfectly honest, we tend to get kind of grumpy during the summer tourist season…

I’m not running for President, so I assume it’s safe for me to read the document. But I’m not going to. I’ve never read anything 900 pages long…

The professor feels that the idea many of us have about the dodo — that it was “this dumpy, slightly stupid bird that kind of deserved to go extinct” — is inaccurate…

It’s hard to say exactly what my ex-wife Darlene found appealing about me, so many years ago. It couldn’t have been my vast wealth…

President George H.W. Bush announced The Decade in 1990, as an effort “to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research…”

That threshold is actually very important, if you’re rich, because it means that the Federal Reserve now has an excuse to lower the interest rate…

I’ve been coming across the word “weird” in the news lately, applied to a certain political party, by a competing political party…

The government — and now, chicken farmers — use the word “hemp” to mean cannabis that contains 0.3 percent or less THC content…

“Name a global city, and it’s probably building miles of new rail transit, oftentimes with much more impressive technical specs than Americans are used to…

Above is a photo of my replacement phone, which was very reasonably priced…

The two old white guys were easy to recognize, because they were wearing t-shirts that said “Old White Men for Harris”…

We can understand why the FDA would want drug companies to take an active role in defending their own products…

“I’ve got nothing against cats,” Senator Vance told commentator Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM talk show last month…

When I was a kid, my parents tried to make me understand that certain things were priceless. You simply couldn’t assign a price to them…

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the athletes’ accommodations made headlines, because the beds in the Olympic Village were made of cardboard…

So far, NASA’s Artemis Project, as budgeted through 2025, will cost about $100 billion dollars. “Billion” with a “B”. And that’s before anyone even sets foot inside a spaceship…

My cat, Roscoe, will wait quietly at the door for the longest time. He knows I will eventually notice him and let him out (if he’s inside) or in (if he’s outside.)…