Category: Humor/Fiction

This was a memorable nuclear accident…

According to a 2023 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 28% of people 65 and older live by themselves…

“A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it…”

If you drive in America, the chances are that 1-in-75 of all the people in the cars around you on the road will be killed by a car — probably, by someone else’s car…

Ms. McArdle did some research into the attempts by various government and non-profit entities to solve the poverty problem…

In preparation of today’s column, I spent much of the weekend reading ‘Getting Married’ by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw…

I’ve been keeping track, and I can state with considerable confidence that I don’t generate more than half a pound of plastic waste per day…

“World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump,” said Vice President Harris, during a skit about foreign policy…

If someone steals 11,000 votes (which might have happened in Georgia in 2020, for example) what is the monetary value of those votes?

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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…