I'm Just Saying

You really have to wonder what the world’s coming to these days. If it’s not violence in the Middle East or Putin beating his chest with aggressive military maneuverings in a vain attempt to appear taller, people in our own country seem willing to so easily descend into violence over a disagreement.

It’s very possible one can develop a feeling of apathy regarding the security of their home and belongings here in the country.

Guilty as charged.

It’s not uncommon for people, who have not been around them, to ask me,
“Are horses smart?”

I know a bride that just threw the most lavish wedding, one of two: her husband is English and within days of their respective, “I do,” they were on the plane to Oxford where he, Chris, continues work on his Ph.D. — and so that they can celebrate with his family and friends as well.

Women have often been told by psychologists that we suffer from a two-word phrase, a rather vulgar one, the second word being, ‘envy,’ in regards to what men, exclusively, have. I have always found that accusation both ridiculous and insulting.

I write this column from the office I will be occupying for the next five days while the battered floors of our IHOP are being refinished:

The beer cooler at the local Spinx station.

In all my years as a stand-up comic, I’ve never been unable to provide a snappy, ‘come-back’ to a boisterous heckler. Indeed, if you hand them enough rope, they usually end up hanging themselves and making a comic’s life much easier.

Glowing, glowing, gone...is the term I read online to describe the plight of lightning bugs around the world.