“Tonight, I’m announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees…”
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, AIM, FIRE: Feeling Positive About Being Negative
“So, what flavor ice cream are you thinking of buying?” I asked. Just being friendly…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Chinese Virus vs the Chinese Vaccine
Wu Yifang, chairman and CEO of Shanghai-based Fosun Pharma, said he’s happy to see the mRNA vaccine developed by Fosun and BioNTech reach the island nation of Taiwan…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Boredom is Your Friend
When the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler was bored one day, back in 1871, he complained to his mother…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When a Virus Turns Angry
Apparently, the Delta variant is not only more contagious than all the other variants; it also has anger management issues…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Social Media, the Pathway to Hell
The Ten Arguments discussed things like addiction, free will, the undermining of ‘truth’, destruction of empathy, and generally, all the ways social media has been making me unhappy…
READY, FIRE, AIM: My Personal Struggle with Artificial Intelligence
In a sense, those of us interested in AI are rubbing shoulders with the computer nerds at Facebook and Google, who are also interested…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Big Bang… and Then, Pagosa Springs
This image, above, might illustrate the first moments of the Big Bang, when the ‘singularity’ woke up and decided to blossom into a full-blown universe…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Electric Everything
It all started back in the 1950s, I guess, with electric guitars…
READY, FIRE, AIM: I Will Fall Asleep Faster, and Stay Asleep Longer
That is an honest transcript of Mr. Hannity’s comments on Fox News. Do we find it darkly amusing?
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Inflation Mind Game
I’ve never been good at mind games. Or at games in general. But especially mind games…
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…