Is monkeypox our new worldwide hysteria, what with the public getting a bit tired of COVID? Ask the British tourist who, according to news reports, was placed inside a sealed capsule on a Greek island and then put aboard a…
It has become ever more difficult in recent years to write satire because the world is going crazy so fast that satire becomes reality — sometimes poisonous reality — before you can finish writing or even start laughing. Even somewhat…
As the commissioned pitchman for the year almost past, I find “2021, even better than 2020” as the most captivating slogan for my client not in violation of hangups over truth in advertising. The Oxford English Dictionary named “vax” and…
This year our family decided to do something a little off the beaten track for Christmas. We spent it at a casino. We picked one of the big venues on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, figuring that food, fun, and fellowship…
“We’re a free market economy. They [Congress] should be able to participate in that.” At a time when the American public’s trust in politicians and government is nearing an all-time low, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to give the American…
Tuesday afternoon, President Biden demonstrated why he has been no more successful than former President Trump in controlling the coronavirus, despite the advantage of vaccines and therapeutics that were not available to the latter. Speaking at the White House, Biden…
Among the states most loyal to Republicans running for federal office is a place governed as though it were California or Massachusetts. We speak here of Louisiana, which has two Republican senators and five GOP House members out of six….
Washington — I was shot last week. No, I was not shot by any of the roving bands of White Supremacists who, I am told by the media, ply their hate so freely here in Northern Virginia. Nor was I…
“Don’t you care about your grandma?” horrified vaccine mandate supporters ask the unvaccinated. “Where’s your compassion?” Right back atcha, former friends. How is it humane to look into the next office, cubicle, across the assembly line, or at your fellow…
