Someone's gotta lean on the horn. That child's story has the worriment of a damaged adult on the edge. But she's perhaps a hundred months old. She's an Xbox junkie ... a "gamer" ... found sitting "in a puddle of her own urine ... so hooked ... she wouldn’t even go to the toilet ..." When her father threatened to … Continue reading Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma
Bill Clinton ... talking through his zipper ... again! “I think it’s a good thing that we should all have higher standards, I think the norms have really changed in terms of what you can do to somebody against their will, how much you can crowd their space, make them miserable at work.” Give that man … Continue reading I Did Not Have … With That Woman
Check out this loose cannon. Quite the ticking time-bomb. I thought Maher was losin’ his brain beans, but this De Niro nut … Yikes! ... he’s clearly crossed over to a special dimension where you hope and pray the walls are spongy. So Mister Focker dropped in on the Tonys … and dropped a few … Continue reading This Is One Special Focker
Geniuses are the most dangerous creatures in the universe ... and do you know why God made so few? To limit the suffering of teachers. Dweebers are educational pests. They make these fly-by observations … scurry back to their sticky keyboards … and tell real-deal teachers how to do their jobs. Let’s imagine those same … Continue reading Happy Teacher Exasperation Month!
Are you a pretend parent? If that questions bothers you, well … It’s never a bad thing to have a heart-to-heart with yourself. Maybe you’re too caught up in your own thing … or life's become tangled ... so your kid’s education has slipped into auto-pilot. You're not alone. But if that first sentence grabbed … Continue reading Are You a Pretend Parent?
There’s a new God in the universe … and he goes by Barack Obama. Yeah ... that guy. Who won't go away. The New York Times found him ... and Maureen "Mary Magdalene" Dowd revealed him. To us all. Amen. So tomorrow, expect new rally caps all over the Universe ... with the new God's new message … Continue reading What Hath Dowd Wrought?
Leland Dodge spent his middle school years dodging one very bad kid. He loved his middle school … he just hated the third floor quad. His math and science classes met there. It’s also where he met Dutch Holland. The one very bad kid. Leland Dodge went by “Fiver”. That’s what everybody called him. He … Continue reading One Bad Kid
Hmmm ... So, Roseanne gets cancelled for foul stuff ... but not unlike the foul stuff mumbled by Maher and Kimmel and Colbert and Behar and Goldberg ... All. The. Time. But somehow ... some way ... their shows survive to say such things over and over and over again. Hmmm again ... But here's … Continue reading Selective Outrage … Raising the Barr
ONCE I WAS by Tim Buckley Once I was a soldier And I fought on foreign sands for you Once I was a hunter And I brought home fresh meat for you Once I was a lover And I searched behind your eyes for you And soon there'll be another To tell you I was … Continue reading Once I Was
Night Noise "Ave Maria, Gratia Plena, Dominus Tecum." Mothers don't pray like the rest of us. I learned that long ago. As a boy. Have a brother at war and you'll learn lots of secrets about your Mother. She seemed the same lady … but she wasn't. Everybody went about growing up. The house kept … Continue reading The War Mother
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