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Category: Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: What Happened to My Shoes?

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Above is a photo of a cargo ship owned by Chidori Ship Holding LLC — the ONE Apus — capable of carrying 14,000 twenty-foot cargo containers…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Women's History Month, 2021

READY, FIRE, AIM: Women’s History Month, 2021

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 by Louis Cannon

The biggest changes, however, took place when women began to graduate from colleges with degrees in history, and history books began to acknowledge that women existed…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Elites… Good, Bad, and Ugly

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 by Louis Cannon

What everybody doesn’t know is that it’s an empirical inevitability that Elites — through their accumulated wealth — will rule your country, whether you live in the US, or China, or Russia, or Egypt…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: To Meat or Not to Meat, That is the Question

READY, FIRE, AIM: To Meat or Not to Meat, That is the Question

Posted on March 22, 2021June 28, 2023 by Louis Cannon

We can wipe the carbon out of our footprints, any day of the week and twice on Sunday. And we can prevent animal cruelty, if we happen to be suffering from “meat guilt”…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Myths About Your Stimulus Check

Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by Louis Cannon

A couple who makes $160,000 a year would be able to do something truly useful with $1,400. Like, say, a trip to Costa Rica…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: The Unalienable Right to Disconnect

Posted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Discussing the need for the law, minister El Khomri noted “the boundary between professional and personal life has become tenuous…”

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READY, FIRE, AIM: I Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up… and Neither Do You

Posted on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Ms. Nuwer proposes here that “science” has confirmed the fact that we don’t know when to shut up. My ex-wife Darlene would also be happy to confirm the fact, no doubt…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Is It Safe to Kiss, Yet?

Posted on March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Reading through the CDC’s March 8 guidance, I found 29 references to “risk” behaviors. But the word “kiss” doesn’t appear anywhere in the entire document…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Relishing Our Rage

Posted on March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 by Louis Cannon

How many of us have been feeling like this, lately?

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READY, FIRE, AIM: I Don't Even Trust Myself

READY, FIRE, AIM: I Don’t Even Trust Myself

Posted on March 8, 2021February 27, 2022 by Louis Cannon

I might be the only one around who is admitting that my columns are fake news, which in a sense makes me the only honest person in the room…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Bad News for the Highly Intelligent

READY, FIRE, AIM: Bad News for the Highly Intelligent

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Louis Cannon

This curve purportedly demonstrates the distribution of IQ Test scores in the general population. Most of us are somewhere in the middle, near the top of the curve…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: My Imposter Syndrome

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 by Louis Cannon

I would certainly prefer to have ‘imposter phenomenon’ but I realize I don’t deserve that particular label. So I’m stuck with a syndrome…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: How About Fish for Dinner?

Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by Louis Cannon

She was especially fond of sardines with soda crackers. The ones packed in olive oil…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
Dear Editor... Let Us Entertain You

Dear Editor… Let Us Entertain You

Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 by Post Contributor

We are big entertainers and would love to “set up shop” preferably in a central location near all the action…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: A Few Good Reasons Why I Love Donald Trump

Posted on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 by Louis Cannon

And speaking of intelligence, another thing I love about President Trump is his generosity…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: I Lost My Learning… Can Joe Biden Help?

Posted on February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Those are just a few of the vocabulary words that have been lost — forever? — as a result of the transition to “remote learning” during the COVID pandemic….

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Am I Blue? … I Mean, Level Blue?

Posted on February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Billie Holiday may have said it best, in 1947…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Cupid and the Pandemic of Love

READY, FIRE, AIM: Cupid and the Pandemic of Love

Posted on February 12, 2021March 1, 2021 by Louis Cannon

How could a cute little guy with white wings, a round, pink bum, and curly blond hair be even the slightest bit naughty?

Posted in Humor/Fiction
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