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Category: Humor/Fiction

READY FIRE, AIM: The Daily Post 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

READY FIRE, AIM: The Daily Post 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Posted on December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 by Louis Cannon

While an undersized waffle maker is not technically a ‘food’, it is capable of producing something closely resembling ‘food’…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Santa Reveals His Politics

Posted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Louis Cannon

The third float featured Santa Claus, making his traditional appearance in his magical, reindeer-drawn sleigh, accompanied by Ms. Claus and several elves…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

HUMOR: A New Name for the Republican Party?

Posted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Post Contributor

Sources inside the White House say the President is serious about acknowledging Biden as president-elect, on the condition that the GOP formally change its name…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Chicken Little, During the Pandemic

Posted on November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 by Louis Cannon

“I just look at the graphs, in the COVID section. Who can keep up with all the articles?”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: My Letter to Santa

READY, FIRE, AIM: My Letter to Santa

Posted on November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by Louis Cannon

“For security reasons, potential adopters must be vetted by going through a short registration and ID verification process…”

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Hey, Mr. Spaceman

READY, FIRE, AIM: Hey, Mr. Spaceman

Posted on November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 by Louis Cannon

All of which suggests that the US Space Force will not be sending a bunch of hot-shot space pilots into low earth orbit to conduct battles with hand-held laser pistols…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: What, Me Worry?

Posted on November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 by Louis Cannon

The world, it would seem, has gone mad…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: An Ignorant Person’s Opinion of Intelligence

Posted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 by Louis Cannon

As far as I can tell, intelligence is nothing new, and neither is ignorance. Clearly, they both existed in measurable quantities in September 1843…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Cockroaches & Fruit Flies

READY, FIRE, AIM: Cockroaches & Fruit Flies

Posted on November 17, 2020January 4, 2025 by Louis Cannon

According to what Mr. Ball reveals about cockroaches, it seems that they run away when they detect air movements…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: Toxic People

Posted on November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 by Louis Cannon

I sometimes imagine myself as the head of a large corporation, pulling down a multi-million-dollar annual salary and making hefty donations to my favorite politicians…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: I Will Not Concede

Posted on November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 by Louis Cannon

I could have refused to concede to the divorce that Darlene wanted, and that would’ve certainly made someone uncomfortable. But I didn’t, and now that’s all water under the bridge…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

HMPRESENTLY: Cussing, in Foreign Languages

Posted on November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 by Harvey Radin

With no pun intended, as they say, I’m getting a kick out of lipreading what athletes yell at each other, and at referees, during games…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: What the Cat Dragged In

Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 by Louis Cannon

But Roscoe wasn’t the type of cat to sit around on the couch licking his fur and gloating over past accomplishments…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: It’s Not the End of the World, Folks

Posted on November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 by Louis Cannon

The scary part about the end of the world… I mean, there are quite a few scary parts, but the scariest part is the thought of being the last person, left behind…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: My High-Fat Future

Posted on October 29, 2020February 1, 2021 by Louis Cannon

Okay, so this might not seem like much of a humor article, so far. Oil companies going bankrupt; that’s not really funny. But I’m sorry, it is funny. As in ‘ironic’…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

HMPRESENTLY: PR Crisis in Heaven

Posted on October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 by Harvey Radin

Oh Lord, we’re closely monitoring a situation involving a rather fiendish individual in the American government…

Posted in Humor/Fiction, Opinion/Letters

READY, FIRE, AIM: Love Affairs, Such as They Are

Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 by Louis Cannon

Senior editor Alan Ehrenhalt takes a bird’s-eye view — not unlike the one shown in the photo — of ‘single-family homes’, understood as a somewhat abstract concept…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Ant and the Grasshopper, Revisited

Posted on October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 by Louis Cannon

A couple of interesting, if contrasting, morals. But what has me concerned is the obvious failure of our modern American system of education…

Posted in Humor/Fiction

READY, FIRE, AIM: The Icy Mountains of Pluto

Posted on October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 by Louis Cannon

The 12-year-long New Horizons mission wasn’t cheap — about $780 million. But it got some great photos of a place none of us are likely to visit…

Posted in Humor/Fiction
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