(The following was written while I was on hold, waiting to speak with an ERAP operator.) “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you …
-I think lobotomies should be allowed in some cases. -Dad! -Really. -Like, who? -The guy who sucker-punched Mike. -He needs treatment. -Far away from Mike and the rest of his neighbors. -He is bipolar! -He is dangerous. That’s me and my son. He and his little sibling had just made a snarky reference to lobotomies. …
In an earlier post in which I discussed the etymology of the -FU acronyms, I mentioned the term BOHICA. Like GPS and nuclear power, the word was developed by the military but is now used in the civilian world (while GPS and nuclear power benefit everyone, the term BOHICA outside the military is now restricted …
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Washington Post, AKA Pravda on the Potomac, ran an article last week about the manufactured housing industry that was (i) not hidden behind the Post’s paywall, and (ii) both informative and fair (Kerrymen, Newfies, and people from New Jersey can click here, here or here for the …
Cleveland, back in the day Here is a link to a review of Esther Sullivan’s book Manufactured Insecurity, in the Cleveland Review of Books. Readers unsure of whether to click the previous link can click here, here or here. Belgians, Newfies and Kerrymen can click here.
Mobile home park ownership makes for strange bedfellows. I dislike the three Supremes who were rammed through during the Trump administration. Gorsuch is taking up space where Merrick Garland belongs. Kavanaugh is a drunk who can’t stand up under cross examination. ACB is brilliant but crazy, with scary views on reproductive rights, religion and gun …
When I was driving in northern Maine recently, a maiden aunt who lives in Maine whom I see only on Thanksgivings, weddings and funerals called me. Looking at the caller ID, I emitted a low groan and let it ring. I was listening to a podcast that interested me, and did not want to be …
I understand that readers have had trouble clicking on the link to the content for this post. Not trouble clicking on it so much as recognizing that blue text denotes a link, and that links are there to be clicked. This post is about a commentary published in the Albany (NY) Times Union on August …
Once, there were a couple of socially deviant porpoises, but “socially deviant” doesn’t begin to describe it. A non-exhaustive list of the type of stuff they got up to would include: Bestiality; Coprophagia; Simony; Gratuitous use of the f-word. They spent most of their time in Manhattan, but they also hung out in the outer …
Fitzgerald said that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Here are some things that the help desk for the New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“ERAP”) have told me – sometimes during …