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Category: Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM:  Texting With My Therapist

READY, FIRE, AIM: Texting With My Therapist

Posted on September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 by Louis Cannon

Mental Health is big business lately, what with so many borderline insane people running around…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Do Crickets Report the Temperature Accurately?

READY, FIRE, AIM: Do Crickets Report the Temperature Accurately?

Posted on September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 by Louis Cannon

Claim: Outdoor temperature can be determined by counting the chirps made by crickets…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Save the Wild Turkeys

READY, FIRE, AIM: Save the Wild Turkeys

Posted on September 6, 2024September 7, 2024 by Louis Cannon

Small herds of turkeys.  They’re a lot like human teenagers; they like to travel in groups.  Except they don’t have cell phones…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Poetry Will Not Save Us

READY, FIRE, AIM: Poetry Will Not Save Us

Posted on September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 by Louis Cannon

When I was in elementary school, I got the impression that poetry was supposed to rhyme.  But in high school, I learned that rhyming was rather old fashioned…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Ghost of Henry Ford

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Ghost of Henry Ford

Posted on September 3, 2024September 3, 2024 by Louis Cannon

I once owned a Ford — an F-150 pickup truck — but that has no bearing, really, on my political issues with Henry Ford…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM:  Losing His Mojo

READY, FIRE, AIM: Losing His Mojo

Posted on August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 by Louis Cannon

According to the dictionary, ‘mojo’ can mean a magic charm or amulet, typically worn around the neck…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Remote Workers Are Lonely

READY, FIRE, AIM: Remote Workers Are Lonely

Posted on August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 by Louis Cannon

Returning to the office isn’t the solution, for a simple reason.  The office no longer exists…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM:  Harris Wins 99% Approval Rating at the Convention

READY, FIRE, AIM: Harris Wins 99% Approval Rating at the Convention

Posted on August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Top 5 Attractions in Pagosa Springs, or Nearby

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Top 5 Attractions in Pagosa Springs, or Nearby

Posted on August 27, 2024August 27, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Why I Will Not Be Reading 'Project 2025'

READY, FIRE, AIM: Why I Will Not Be Reading ‘Project 2025’

Posted on August 26, 2024August 26, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Truth About the Dodo, Revealed

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Truth About the Dodo, Revealed

Posted on August 23, 2024August 23, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Appealing to Women

READY, FIRE, AIM: Appealing to Women

Posted on August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: An Unexpected Vacation in Space

READY, FIRE, AIM: An Unexpected Vacation in Space

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 by Post Contributor

Would you climb aboard a Boeing airplane if they told you your odds of making it home alive were 1-in-270?

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Decade of the Brain

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Decade of the Brain

Posted on August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Inflation's Crucial Threshold

READY, FIRE, AIM: Inflation’s Crucial Threshold

Posted on August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Weird Sisters

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Weird Sisters

Posted on August 16, 2024August 16, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Cannabis for Chickens

READY, FIRE, AIM: Cannabis for Chickens

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Heavy Traffic

READY, FIRE, AIM: Heavy Traffic

Posted on August 13, 2024August 13, 2024 by Louis Cannon

“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…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Dumb Weekend Without My Smartphone

READY, FIRE, AIM: A Dumb Weekend Without My Smartphone

Posted on August 12, 2024August 12, 2024 by Louis Cannon

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

Posted in Humor/Fiction
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