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Category: Humor/Fiction

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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DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: Rescue Mode

Posted on July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 by DC Duncan

And then I heard it again. Yes. No mistaking. That was definitely a female yelling “help….”

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Intelligence, or Lack Thereof

Posted on July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 by Louis Cannon

But obviously, judging from the number of small flying insects that get added to the web every day, someone is not paying attention…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Joe Says Facebook is Killing Us… Like, Duh

Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 by Louis Cannon

I guess technically, the President wasn’t saying that Facebook is killing everybody. Only certain people…

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READY, FIRE, AIM:  The Sperm Parameters, Before and After

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Sperm Parameters, Before and After

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Some sperm swim in a straight line, aiming for the target, like Harvard undergrads majoring in Business Administration…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: The Death of the 40-Hour Work Week

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

I assume this phenomenon has been accompanied by a sharp increase in Netflix subscriptions…

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READY, FIRE, AIM: California Roars Back

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

It seems that this California program is actually working, because Governor Newsom posted this authentic testimonial from one of his constituents…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Why I’m Not Headed to Tokyo

Posted on July 14, 2021July 16, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Another abnormal thing, is protesters standing around outside the stadium, with banners written in English and Japanese…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: In the Oval Office

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

Marty waved a hand in my direction. “Are we okay, talking with this guy in the room?” he queried…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Space, the Final Tourism Frontier

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

Space is now the final tourism frontier. And tourists — especially, very wealthy tourists — don’t want to be crammed into a space capsule…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Non-Binary Sexuality, a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition

READY, FIRE, AIM: Non-Binary Sexuality, a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition

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

I have found the current discussions about non-binary gender to be wonderfully confounding…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Lobsters Loom Large in British Parliament Debates

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 by Louis Cannon

What is sentience? As suggested by Charles Darwin 150 years ago, it’s the ability to feel “pleasure and pain, happiness and misery…”

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Those Beloved Airplanes

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

But… now that I’ve wondered about how much the Blue Angels would cost… I can’t stop thinking about it….

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Six Styles of Love… Pick Your Favorite

Posted on July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 by Louis Cannon

“You might say that you love your partner, or your family, or your best friend, your job or even your car. Clearly, you’re using the term in different ways…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Give Me Liberty... and Give Me Death

READY, FIRE, AIM: Give Me Liberty… and Give Me Death

Posted on July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Allegedly, a member of the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 — Patrick Henry — made an inflammatory speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Get a College Degree; Live a Long, Boring Life

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

What the researchers also failed to mention is that too much of a good thing is not a good thing. And that includes too much education…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
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