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Category: Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Don’t Tell Me What To Do, Joe

Posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 by Louis Cannon

“Tonight, I’m announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees…”

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READY, AIM, FIRE: Feeling Positive About Being Negative

READY, AIM, FIRE: Feeling Positive About Being Negative

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

“So, what flavor ice cream are you thinking of buying?” I asked. Just being friendly…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: The Chinese Virus vs the Chinese Vaccine

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Chinese Virus vs the Chinese Vaccine

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 by Post Contributor

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Boredom is Your Friend

READY, FIRE, AIM: Boredom is Your Friend

Posted on September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 by Louis Cannon

When the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler was bored one day, back in 1871, he complained to his mother…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: When a Virus Turns Angry

READY, FIRE, AIM: When a Virus Turns Angry

Posted on September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Apparently, the Delta variant is not only more contagious than all the other variants; it also has anger management issues…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Social Media, the Pathway to Hell

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

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: My Personal Struggle with Artificial Intelligence

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by Louis Cannon

In a sense, those of us interested in AI are rubbing shoulders with the computer nerds at Facebook and Google, who are also interested…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: The Big Bang… and Then, Pagosa Springs

Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 by Louis Cannon

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Electric Everything

READY, FIRE, AIM: Electric Everything

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

It all started back in the 1950s, I guess, with electric guitars…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: I Will Fall Asleep Faster, and Stay Asleep Longer

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

That is an honest transcript of Mr. Hannity’s comments on Fox News. Do we find it darkly amusing?

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READY, FIRE, AIM: The Inflation Mind Game

Posted on August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 by Louis Cannon

I’ve never been good at mind games. Or at games in general. But especially mind games…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Ebenezer Howard Ruined Your Life

READY, FIRE, AIM: Ebenezer Howard Ruined Your Life

Posted on August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 by Louis Cannon

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: All Men are Created Equal, But Some are More Equal Than Others

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

The pigs, who were generally more clever than the other animals, developed a set of commandments expressing the farm’s guiding political philosophy…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: When a Virus Won’t Play by the Rules

Posted on August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 by Louis Cannon

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: The Voracious Vegetable Eater

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

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Inalienable Rights, All Around

Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 by Louis Cannon

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: How Do You Spell ‘Colorado’?

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

After Chaitra misspelled ‘neroli oil’, Zaila won the big trophy by correctly spelling ‘murraya’ — a genus of Asiatic tress with pinnate leaves…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: When Satan Chairs the Meeting

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

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…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Fat and Happy

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 by Louis Cannon

As far as I can tell, there’s no scientific proof that fat people are happier than skinny people, but it would seem like a simple thing to find out…

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