Up until the passage of One Big Beautiful Bill in 2025, waitresses had to pay income tax on tips…
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Bull’s Lucky Balls
“It’s probably a charming gesture, but also quite damaging for a work of art…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Peter Thiel and The Antichrist
I got interested in this topic because I came across some news reports, last month, about humanity and technology…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Oh, Baby Baby, It’s a Wild World
So far, I haven’t changed my mind. About borrowing Bob’s lawn mower, I mean…
READY, FIRE, AIM: You Can Be Happy, But It’ll Cost You
Can I start a column that way? Confessing that the article, written by Amelia Tait, made me feel depressed?…
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Quick Tour of the Manosphere
Yes, I’m a man. And I was born a man, which is something not everyone can claim…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Securing the Border, If You Don’t Mind
I have to assume that someone accidentally told the President that Jeff Hurd was a RINO, and the President later got better information…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Modern Music
On September 7, 2016, Billboard magazine named “One Dance” the 2016 Song of the Summer. I honestly do not remember much about the summer of 2016…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Close to You
“We were not always friends. We were not always aligned. But those differences actually helped us out…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: This I Believe
So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Putting the ‘Hope’ Back in ‘Hopelessness’
In the midst of a seemingly hopeless search for life’s meaning, I came across the following 13-minute-long TED Talk video…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Wanton Destruction of CBS Property, for Your Entertainment
You could invite the previous host of the “Late Night” show — David Letterman — to join you atop the Ed Sullivan Theatre, and throw furniture off the roof…
READY, FIRE, AIM: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know, But I Think I Do
This topic came to my attention when I came across a scientific paper titled, “The misunderstood limits of folk science…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: When the News is Less Like Homework…
I never actually felt that reading the news, or watching the news, was “like homework”. I would describe it more like “therapy”…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Honey, I Shrunk the Economy!
It could be worse, of course. I could have invented a machine that accidentally shrunk my kids, like in the 1989 Disney movie….
READY, FIRE, AIM: We’re Either Gonna Die Really Soon, or Live Practically Forever
A number of years ago, an Oxford philosophy professor named Nick Bostrom published a book titled, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Wanted, a Marriage Counselor for the Colorado River
Reportedly, the Colorado River negotiations have not been going as smoothly as everyone wishes…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Also Known as ‘UFOs’
“I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Tax the Rich… So We Don’t Have to Eat Them
If I were rich, I would much prefer to be taxed rather than eaten. But I might not have a choice?