May 27, 2022
From the “Never Make Rash Promises” Department:
Overheard:
Non-sports-loving woman:
“I promised my son that if the Blues won Game 5 of the playoffs, I’d go downtown with him to watch Game 6.
“They were down 3-0 in the second period! How was I supposed to know they’d pull it off?”
May 31, 2022
Dear Rep. Taylor Greene:
Eating under-cooked ground beef (a/k/a hamburger, a component of cheeseburgers) can indeed cause sharp stomach pains, as well as other unpleasant side effects.
So, in order to avoid the zaps (NOT caused by the government, by the way), make sure that your beef is fully cooked.
And thank you for letting me add “the zaps” to my vocabulary of euphemisms for unpleasant side effects.
May 31, 2022
It has become apparent that the Republican party no longer even goes through the pretense of vetting candidates for moral character, intellect, or any other criterion of suitability for office. People elected include those who can’t name the three branches of government, people indicted for fraud, people charged with sexual abuse, people who falsely charge their fellow Republicans with having orgies and carrying on in other ways…and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Besides peddling whack-a-doodle theories about Jewish lasers starting forest fires, Rep. Taylor Greene seems to have a serious fixation with food. She referred to the Gestapo as the Gazpacho; and she is now convinced that the government is trying to force us to eat fake meat produced in a “peach tree” dish.
(Side note: People are so busy making fun of her mangling of “Petri dish” that nobody seems to care that she’s peddling another conspiracy theory.)
I guess the Republican party doesn’t really need to vegetable candidates, as, no matter whom they put forward, there will be people who elect them.
May 28, 2022
The U. S. Women’s Soccer Team made history earlier this month when they succeeded in getting a contract that grants equal pay and equal treatment with the Men’s U. S. Soccer Team.
The women’s team has been more successful than the men’s for years. Now their talents and contributions are being recognized.
Even better: “This doesn’t happen without the men’s team championing it,” said Cindy Parlow Cone, president of U. S. Soccer. The men are giving up substantial money to make the pay between the two teams equal.
So, it’s a doubly-good story: Women are being treated equally with men, and men stepped up to help make it happen.
May 21, 2022
On a recent road trip, I noticed that a radio station was playing Top 30 hits; so, in the interests of keeping my brain flexible, I listened. I looked on it as a form of mental exercise.
I didn’t recognize a single song. When the station pooped out at Song #8, I wasn’t sorry, as, like many forms of exercise, this one wasn’t particularly enjoyable. But I gave it the ol’ college try.
Flash forward a few weeks, and the comic strip “Funky Winkerbean” has one character lamenting that he’s no longer hip; and another one telling him to listen to current music to increase his “hip quotient”—like “hip exercises”.
It didn’t work for him, either.
