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Category: Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Laughing Along with Republicans

READY, FIRE, AIM: Laughing Along with Republicans

Posted on August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 by Louis Cannon

How can we keep from laughing? There’s probably nothing as funny as a transfer of wealth…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Climate Change

READY, FIRE, AIM: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Climate Change

Posted on August 24, 2026August 24, 2026 by Louis Cannon

But every cloud has a silver lining. There’s always a balance…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Silence is Golden... Duct Tape is Silver...

READY, FIRE, AIM: Silence is Golden… Duct Tape is Silver…

Posted on August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 by Louis Cannon

How much is silence worth now… in the 21st century?

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Turing Test, and the Cyanide Apple

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Turing Test, and the Cyanide Apple

Posted on August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 by Louis Cannon

“However, the apple was so artfully made that only the red cheek was poisoned…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Middle-Aged Americans, Falling Behind

READY, FIRE, AIM: Middle-Aged Americans, Falling Behind

Posted on August 18, 2026August 18, 2026 by Louis Cannon

Earlier this year, journalist Joe Rojas-Burke wrote about this “falling behind” problem…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Jimmy and PawPaw, on the Back Porch

READY, FIRE, AIM: Jimmy and PawPaw, on the Back Porch

Posted on August 17, 2026August 17, 2026 by Louis Cannon

Political campaigning is more an art than a science, and I’m a big fan of art… especially movies…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The World's Worst Billionaire

READY, FIRE, AIM: The World’s Worst Billionaire

Posted on August 14, 2026August 14, 2026 by Louis Cannon

Other billionaires who qualified, but sadly enough didn’t win: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison (and his son David), and Peter Thiel…

Posted in Humor/Fiction, Video
READY, FIRE, AIM: Verne, a Big Patriot

READY, FIRE, AIM: Verne, a Big Patriot

Posted on August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 by Louis Cannon

Hundreds of people gathered for the ribbon cutting, when the nutcracker’s name and exact height were revealed to the crowd…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Dr. Fauci Pleads the Fifth

READY, FIRE, AIM: Dr. Fauci Pleads the Fifth

Posted on August 12, 2026August 17, 2026 by Louis Cannon

It seems that  a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Dr. Rand Paul, had released 1,100 unredacted pages from Dr. Fauci’s professional diary…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Enjoying the Warmth

READY, FIRE, AIM: Enjoying the Warmth

Posted on August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 by Louis Cannon

The oil painting shared above is titled ‘Coalbrookdale by Night’, as rendered by British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg in 1801….

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Drones in the School Hallways

READY, FIRE, AIM: Drones in the School Hallways

Posted on August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 by Louis Cannon

The drones themselves work for free, of course. They just need to have their batteries charged now and then…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Peanut Butter as Art

READY, FIRE, AIM: Peanut Butter as Art

Posted on August 7, 2026August 7, 2026 by Louis Cannon

I can’t claim to be an art expert, but I know art when I see it…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Not That Kind of 'Fire'

READY, FIRE, AIM: Not That Kind of ‘Fire’

Posted on August 5, 2026August 5, 2026 by Louis Cannon

Marshal Michel Ney was sentenced to death by firing squad for his role supporting the brief return of Napoleon Bonaparte from exile in 1815…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Flat Earth vs. Flat Taxes

READY, FIRE, AIM: Flat Earth vs. Flat Taxes

Posted on August 4, 2026August 4, 2026 by Louis Cannon

For nearly all of human history, the Earth has been flat, and everyone knew it was flat…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold...

READY, FIRE, AIM: Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold…

Posted on August 3, 2026August 3, 2026 by Louis Cannon

A friend told me the other day that she had never felt it so hot here in Pagosa Springs, in the 30 years since she first started visiting…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Taking on the Annoyance Economy

READY, FIRE, AIM: Taking on the Annoyance Economy

Posted on July 31, 2026July 31, 2026 by Louis Cannon

I didn’t know we even had an Annoyance Economy until I read this PDF…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Not a Money Machine... But Still, a Published Novel of Some Kind

READY, FIRE, AIM: Not a Money Machine… But Still, a Published Novel of Some Kind

Posted on July 29, 2026July 29, 2026 by Louis Cannon

I have no idea if ‘Jordan Reyes’ exists in reality.  I do know, however, that my novel does not yet exist in reality.  Not yet…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Whose Election Is It, Anyway?

READY, FIRE, AIM: Whose Election Is It, Anyway?

Posted on July 28, 2026July 28, 2026 by Louis Cannon

I vote every chance I get. My motto: “Vote early, and vote often.”…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Buy Local, Buy Often... and Read the Newspaper...

READY, FIRE, AIM: Buy Local, Buy Often… and Read the Newspaper…

Posted on July 27, 2026July 28, 2026 by Louis Cannon

So anyway, I’m grateful that my little backwater town still has a weekly print newspaper, and another local news outlet available online…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
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