Mental Health is big business lately, what with so many borderline insane people running around…
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Do Crickets Report the Temperature Accurately?
Claim: Outdoor temperature can be determined by counting the chirps made by crickets…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Save the Wild Turkeys
Small herds of turkeys. They’re a lot like human teenagers; they like to travel in groups. Except they don’t have cell phones…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Poetry Will Not Save Us
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Ghost of Henry Ford
I once owned a Ford — an F-150 pickup truck — but that has no bearing, really, on my political issues with Henry Ford…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Losing His Mojo
According to the dictionary, ‘mojo’ can mean a magic charm or amulet, typically worn around the neck…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Remote Workers Are Lonely
Returning to the office isn’t the solution, for a simple reason. The office no longer exists…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Harris Wins 99% Approval Rating at the Convention
79 delegates didn’t vote at all. Maybe they were on vacation, or in the hospital, or simply in a bad mood…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Top 5 Attractions in Pagosa Springs, or Nearby
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Why I Will Not Be Reading ‘Project 2025’
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Truth About the Dodo, Revealed
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Appealing to Women
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: An Unexpected Vacation in Space
Would you climb aboard a Boeing airplane if they told you your odds of making it home alive were 1-in-270?
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Decade of the Brain
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…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Inflation’s Crucial Threshold
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Weird Sisters
I’ve been coming across the word “weird” in the news lately, applied to a certain political party, by a competing political party…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Cannabis for Chickens
The government — and now, chicken farmers — use the word “hemp” to mean cannabis that contains 0.3 percent or less THC content…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Heavy Traffic
“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…