“Drop and give me fifty punch lines!” I was in agony. The Drill Editor at Humor Basic Training had singled me out for having mangled a particularly droll Robert Benchley line. I began typing furiously while my nemesis continued barking orders… “Right! Johnson! Take your squad … [Read more...]

Cap’n Crunch and I are men ahead of our time. Or behind it. I’m not sure which. When I was a bachelor, I ate breakfast cereal for supper most nights. It was fruity or crunchy or sugary delicious, involved very little preparation time, and was an easy-chair-ready meal. Last … [Read more...]

President Barack Obama walks out to center stage, enters a single spotlight and sings: (sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) I am President O-ba-ma I want health care for everyone we have a bill that is 2000 pages long it’s not perfect but it’s very strong I am … [Read more...]

Is it just me or are we a very angry lot these days? I mean, I know that January is a favorite month to very few of us and the gloom of winter can be depressing, but seriously, people, what is up with all the hostility? For instance, on the way to my day job a few weeks ago, a … [Read more...]

MCKEESPORT Penn. - Reports have been surfacing from a suburb of Pittsburgh, Penn., that a woman who was cookless for 12 years, cooked dinner three nights ago. It was also reported that her daughter has been hospitalized, not from eating her mother’s cooking, but from going into … [Read more...]