Sep 23 2022
As you’ve probably already concluded from my habit of stippling my pieces here with quotations, I’m always on the hunt for pithy sayings, clever epigrams, and thought-provoking observations. Brevity isn’t just the soul of wit; it also maximizes your chance of actually getting an idea through the ever-more-substantial blockades around others’ brains. Lately, I …
Sep 13 2022
As I’ve mentioned before, the C.S.O. and I have been watching a great many British murder mysteries and police procedurals since we terminated our cable-TV subscription. Beth loves the genre, and I’m willing to go along with whatever viewing fare she prefers as long as it holds the trendy PC crap to a minimum. …
Sep 08 2022
Glory be to God! Today, as I’ve only just discovered, celebrates my favorite ASCII character: one without which a great many important phrases – including a lot of company names – would be both longer and less memorable: It’s World Ampersand Day! Yes, Gentle Reader, the mighty ampersand has been honored with a …
Aug 30 2022
Overheard at a local tavern: 1st Guy: What time’s the AA Meeting? 2nd Guy: Three. 1st Guy: (glances at wall clock) We better get goin’. Sal’s bringing the doughnuts. 2nd Guy: The chocolate cream ones? 1st Guy: Yeah. 2nd Guy: (slams down his drink) Don’t wanna miss them! As a friend of mine …
Aug 25 2022
Well, maybe. Consider Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin: Finland’s Prime Minister is Sanna Marin, 36 years old and pretty. Over the last week or so, Marin has been caught up in a series of scandals–or are they pseudo-scandals? What is clear is that she likes to party, while her husband apparently doesn’t. …
Aug 06 2022
This has been on the Web about 2317 billion times. Even so, I can’t help but laugh every time I see it: I suppose that makes me a little strange…or a Y-chromosome bearer. Whatever.
Jul 27 2022
Is this or is this not a strange combination? *** Recently, Carl Trueman, a professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, released Strange New World, a study of contemporary notions of identity, with emphasis on the Sexual Revolution. The book is a condensation of his earlier book The Rise and …
Jul 17 2022
This one just took place: FWP: Say, is Jamie Lee Curtis related to Tony Curtis? [spoiler alert: she’s his daughter] CSO: Why do you expect me to know? FWP: You’re the one who reads Entertainment Weekly. CSO: That subscription was by mistake! FWP: Yeah yeah, but you read it anyway. CSO: I don’t know. …
Jun 28 2022
Kenny “Wirecutter” Lane has a brief tale for us: My ex-wife slopped [mayonnaise] on everything. We went through more mayonnaise in a month than I did in a year before I met her. About the only thing I’ll use it on is a ham or bologna sandwich, but she’d slather it on …
Jun 22 2022
If you don’t watch Tucker Carlson’s nightly “openings,” you’re missing some of the best and most entertaining commentary available: Ridicule, Alinsky tells us, is the unanswerable weapon. Ridicule of a self-described comedian who no longer even tries to be funny – the last time Stephen Colbert even made an attempt at humor was …
Jun 19 2022
It was a new establishment. Jane had only heard about it, but at the conclusion of her Saturday bachelorette’s shopping for the week, she decided to give it a look. After all, at age thirty a woman’s prospects have thinned considerably. It wasn’t that she could hear the biological clock ticking, but she was …
Jun 03 2022
…arose from the graphic below, which I encountered at 90 Miles From Tyranny: Upon reading which I immediately thought “Does Fabrique Nationale make morons too? In what calibers?” These early mornings…sigh.
May 27 2022
[As I’m in a fey mood (“Again?” I hear you mutter), and have had to delete a rather large number of unacceptable comments recently, I thought I’d repost this piece from Liberty’s Torch V1.0, which appeared there on April 3, 2016 – FWP] *** “Anonymous,” that lovable rogue we all know so well, …
Apr 26 2022
Not long ago, I stumbled over the following bit of cartoon genius: ‘Fess up, now: isn’t that just too plausible to dismiss out of hand? I mean, one of my cats sits atop my router several hours per day. And the trucks and the boxes keep arriving. More than coincidence? But just …
Apr 16 2022
Homeowners know it well. At least, they do in the moist and temperate Northeastern United States. Each of us who opts for the privacy, space, and comfort of a single-family home must cope with it. The more spacious your domain, the more burdensome it is. No, it’s not the traffic, nor the property …
Apr 14 2022
I really shouldn’t…but it got me laughing so hard I hurt myself: Applause to Kenny “Wirecutter” Lane.
Apr 02 2022
I’ve come slowly but firmly to the conviction that, while our political class is generally vile, nevertheless its members display certain talents for which they should receive the credit due them. Some of those talents are demonstrably world-class. Consider, for example, the ability of the underappreciated Kamala Harris to speak at length, and entirely …
Mar 28 2022
This definitely wins the Internet for today: I’m going to go out on a limb and say that global nuclear fallout is slightly worse for the environment than drilling our own oil. (A comment to this Daily Wire piece about Biden and the looming importance of the 25th Amendment.)
Mar 27 2022
This (found at 90 Miles From Tyranny)) requires no comment from me: I do find it “cute” and “heartwarming,” though. (Did Mommy Tank ever get Junior back on his treads?)
Mar 19 2022
We’ve all heard about them. Some of us have perpetrated them. The easier and more common ones – filling someone’s bedroom with Styrofoam® peanuts, or turning every item in his room upside-down – have lost their humor value through overuse and are merely irritating. But there are still a few that can tickle one…as …
