The Persistence of Trumpitude There’s a weird old rhyme that goes, “As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today; I wish, I wish he’d go away.” Here it is updated: “Yesterday’s news came on the air About a man who’s not all there. He’s
Choices This plague year, do you Sink, or swim away from death? Do you sing, or scream?
Goodbye, Old Friend Bill Mauldin, the great newspaper cartoonist who traveled with the troops across Europe after D-Day, invented a couple of weary, unshaven GIs named Willy and Joe, who represented the average unwilling but gritty American draftee. One of his most famous drawings features Willy standing next to his wrecked Jeep. The vehicle’s hood
Rose-Colored Glasses Musk’s Space-X “touched down With excessive speed.” He said, “Hell, yeah! Good data!”
Mass Miscegenation Colors make us clash People should sleep together Till we’re all beige.
A Burning House And if we go down together and if we simply go down like the end of a story like a house at the end of a fire Maybe we will simply go down together like lovers ending their story by burning it, leaving behind only the story that outlasts a fire. But
Treason Trump’s curs bark and snarl. He urges them to attack. Jail’s too good for him.
The Beldam Old Jill’s medicinal herbs cured many ailments Doctor Hale couldn’t. He accused her of witchcraft. One Sunday Hale dropped dead in the meeting house. Goodie Hagar maintained she had seen Jill the day before, pointing her finger at him and muttering. Hagar was a malicious gossip, but the town believed her. Men with
For John “You gotta accen-tuate the positive, E-liminate the negative. And latch on To the affirmative- Don’t mess with Mister In-Between! You gotta spread joy up to the maximum, Bring gloom down to the minimum, And have faith, or pandemonium’s Liable to walk upon the scene. -Johnny Mercer It was one of my dear friend
First Footing In Scotland, tradition has it that the first person to cross your threshold on Hogmanay (New Year’s Day) is a harbinger of good fortune for the rest to the year. He or she should be welcomed in, given a good nip of whiskey, some shortbread, and a lump of coal to represent a