I’ve never been good at mind games. Or at games in general. But especially mind games…
Author: Louis Cannon
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.
READY, FIRE, AIM: Ebenezer Howard Ruined Your Life
Mr. Howard provided some of the things everyone wanted, like an inter-municipal railway, straight (yellow brick) roads connecting the various suburban centers, an insane asylum…
READY, FIRE, AIM: All Men are Created Equal, But Some are More Equal Than Others
The pigs, who were generally more clever than the other animals, developed a set of commandments expressing the farm’s guiding political philosophy…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When a Virus Won’t Play by the Rules
I mean, people — humans — usually play by the rules. Not always, of course. Especially, politicians and pharmaceutical companies might fudge the rules now and then…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Voracious Vegetable Eater
It’s truly a mysterious world, for me at least, and maybe also for other Daily Post readers who, like me, have been careful to avoid the green-colored Froot Loops…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Inalienable Rights, All Around
California doesn’t currently have enough water for anyone to get excited about, but they have bacon. For the moment. That’s probably going to change…
READY, FIRE, AIM: How Do You Spell ‘Colorado’?
After Chaitra misspelled ‘neroli oil’, Zaila won the big trophy by correctly spelling ‘murraya’ — a genus of Asiatic tress with pinnate leaves…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Satan Chairs the Meeting
Certain scholars, who claim to be able to understand Paradise Lost in spite of the challenging spelling and grammar, have argued that Satan manipulated the vote…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Fat and Happy
As far as I can tell, there’s no scientific proof that fat people are happier than skinny people, but it would seem like a simple thing to find out…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Intelligence, or Lack Thereof
But obviously, judging from the number of small flying insects that get added to the web every day, someone is not paying attention…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Joe Says Facebook is Killing Us… Like, Duh
I guess technically, the President wasn’t saying that Facebook is killing everybody. Only certain people…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Sperm Parameters, Before and After
Some sperm swim in a straight line, aiming for the target, like Harvard undergrads majoring in Business Administration…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Death of the 40-Hour Work Week
I assume this phenomenon has been accompanied by a sharp increase in Netflix subscriptions…
READY, FIRE, AIM: California Roars Back
It seems that this California program is actually working, because Governor Newsom posted this authentic testimonial from one of his constituents…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Why I’m Not Headed to Tokyo
Another abnormal thing, is protesters standing around outside the stadium, with banners written in English and Japanese…
READY, FIRE, AIM: In the Oval Office
Marty waved a hand in my direction. “Are we okay, talking with this guy in the room?” he queried…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Space, the Final Tourism Frontier
Space is now the final tourism frontier. And tourists — especially, very wealthy tourists — don’t want to be crammed into a space capsule…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Non-Binary Sexuality, a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition
I have found the current discussions about non-binary gender to be wonderfully confounding…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Lobsters Loom Large in British Parliament Debates
What is sentience? As suggested by Charles Darwin 150 years ago, it’s the ability to feel “pleasure and pain, happiness and misery…”