Category Archives: Opinion
Burn Me Twice, Shame on Me
Children possess an innate knack for learning to avoid harm, like a toddler venturing a curious hand onto a hot stove top . Sure, bawling and wailing ensue, but a light has been clicked on inside that tiny brain: don’t touch the stove top . … Continue reading
School Daze
The shrinking pool of twenty-first century dupes is giving Barack Obama headaches. Fondly, he reminisces on halcyon years when all the world’s disaffected and naïve were beating their ways to his presence, but nowadays he’s forced to actually seek out people who will refrain … Continue reading
A Not-In-Love Story
Television cables sizzled with the salacious gossip: “Barry doesn’t love his mistress,” speculated relationship counselor Rudy Giuliani. “All the signs are there.” Barry’s mistress bolted up in bed. “You do love me, don’t you hun?” Head propped against a skewed and … Continue reading
Shoveling Moody’s Waste
Chester H. Moody ascended to president of his Future Farmers chapter as a mere high school junior. Later, at State Agriculture College, he grew enamored of animal husbandry and, upon graduation, eloped with his childhood sweetheart and the couple used her savings to … Continue reading
Fifty Shades Of Failure
It’s suddenly the salacious rage among America’s progressive aristocracy: clad in tuxes and gowns they slip into Georgetown homes; tweed-jacketed, they crowd faculty lounges; in pant suits they pack Hillary’s living room. Nearly breathless do the liberal congregations sip cocktails and pick through … Continue reading
Groundhog Day Redux
Jesse Jackson’s dog-eared calendar is marked 1963 and observes Groundhog Day ten days late. So, with all the tedium and ostentation of the annual Gobbler’s Knob ritual, Jackson has just ventured from his burrow to again reel at concocted racial strife. America, it seems, must endure at least … Continue reading
On The Beat With Officer O
It’s quaint, this pleasant city district where awnings shelter storefronts and each market’s sidewalk is crowded by produce bushels, where drying laundry crisscrosses cobblestone streets. Boys in a cul-de-sac are running stickball bases while smiling Officer O’Bama offers encouragement, “Tremendous hit, Johnny! Now keep it … Continue reading
Fiorello Obama?
Ask, and Barack Obama will certify he’s history’s sagest statesman, not merely a master of law and politics, but a science arbiter, theologian, military strategist, historian, basketball specialist, and brewer. So mundane, in fact, does his immense intellect find Oval Office pressures that … Continue reading
The Secret Life of Hillary Mitty
The desolation of network television will grow riveting once NBC celebrity Brian Williams lands his big interview with media-darling Hillary Clinton. The in-depth encounter is destined to play out along these lines: HC: Sorry I’m late … my plane was shot down. BW: No apology needed. … Continue reading
It’s Howdy Doody Time For America
My childhood neighborhood was vibrant with marauders, Apaches, bank robbers, and posses of boys quick-drawing plastic revolvers to fend off those dastardly villains. Those were days when kids took their cues from America’s global stature and John Wayne blockbusters: never did the world’s evil-doers … Continue reading