“I’m sure I heard voices again around 3 a.m.,” the night watchman at the Offensive Statues Warehouse told his supervisor at the end of his shift.“Buddy,” the supervisor said, “if you think I don’t know that the ‘coffee’ in your thermos is really Southern Comfort, you’re ...
I’ve been reading more during the COVID-19 lockdown. So it was that I stumbled across an editorial published May 20 in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry. Its three authors put forward the theory that we are dealing with COVID-19 much as we deal with bereavement. That is, we go ...
I admit that it was the headline that attracted me: “For Some Reason You Can Never See Their Pants.” The way things are going in the Year of COVID-19 – and with political conventions hard upon us – I expected the story to reveal that the Trump sons thought the Republican National ...
Just when you thought 2020 was going to be the most boring, lifeless year ever, it’s time for the August News Quiz:1. Last week, President Donald Trump solved his obsession with showerhead pressure by:a) Appointing a dolphin Secretary of Energy.b) Complaining that lack of showerhead water ...
The annual convention of the Universal Brotherhood of Demons had just been brought to order by Satan. After a disastrous 2019 conclave on an undiscovered ice giant some 12 billion light years from Earth, Old Scratch had chosen to hold the 2020 convention on Mercury. His choice was welcomed by ...
The game had been a seesaw battle from the start. Now, with three seconds left on the clock, Larry “Skunky” Monk lined up to attempt the winning field goal.Skunky’s brother Barry, a.k.a. Funky, snapped the ball. Skunky planted the toe of his left shoe firmly in the ball’s midsection. ...
