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What’s wrong with Facebook? The value of its stock has dropped over 55% in the past year. Its earnings are only about 1.50% of current share value. It does not pay a dividend. Its revenue is down.…
It was a beautiful midsummer late afternoon. I had just checked into the “Inn” in Woodstock, Vermont. I grabbed my fly rod and hurried over to a picturesque covered bridge and waded down into the…
“If you don’t read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you read them, you are misinformed.” Mark Twain. Our political class and their flunkies in the media bombard us with slick sounding words and…
This weekend, while all of you were torpedoing beers on the beach and playing nekid twister at night, I was busy reading and analyzing the 213 page Dobbs v. Jackson case. I did this for you, so you…
I remember well the day I was born. I popped out and there was Dr. Ware standing over me with a giant pair of scissors. I grabbed him by the necktie, called him a son of a bitch and told him to get…
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Charles Mackay, 1841, Scottish author of …
Samuel Johnson, the English essayist, Tory and devout Anglican said: “Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn…
After swim meets or soccer practice, I used to take my daughter and a car load of her friends to get ice cream. My god, they were cute and fun. If you teased them, they would say things like “Boys go…
I don’t know Ginnie Smith. She left a note on my car the other day to tell me she bumped into it and that if I thought there was any damage to call her. She left her number. I called her and told her…
We are living in the “Post-Stupid Age,” feeling the effects of the stupidest public policy the United States and the world has ever seen; shutting down the world economy without comprehending the…
I know what y’all are thinking. You’re thinking how did that Rob Smith guy get to be so smart! Why do chicks dig him so? Did he really score 6 touchdowns and run and pass for over 1,000 yards against…
As I write this, it is Good Friday, in the morning. The cock has crowed three times. Jesus has been tried and convicted by the Sanhedrin. He is brought before Pilate who is sympathetic, but the mob…
Last week I was lucky enough to accomplish something on my bucket list. This might sound a bit nerdy, but I had an all-day private tour of the April 19, 1775 skirmish in Middlesex County,…
March Madness is upon us. I like tens of millions of people do a bracket every year. I have never gotten a perfect bracket, not even close. In fact, the NCAA states that the odds of getting a …
Dear Reader, I am going to let you in on a deep dark family secret. I am doing this more for me than for you. I hope exposing this humiliating skeleton in my family’s closet will be a cathartic…
I once dated a gal (we shall call her Elvira) who got offended if I said anything complimentary of someone she didn’t like. Since she didn’t like “Mary Sue,” it was my duty to hate Mary Sue. If I…
My boy Coleman played a lot of baseball growing up. After Little League season was over, he would be invited to play in Allstar invitationals. An enduring vision I have of those years is leaving the…
When I think of Canadians, I think of toothless hockey players taking off their gloves and wailing on each other. I think of big strapping lads wearing flannel shirts bringing down mighty oak trees…
The AH-64 Apache helicopters flew low over the Potomac. Everything was working as planned. After the bridges were secure, a contingent of loyal Army officers and soldiers gathered at Fort Belvoir…
I have mapped out positions on all major issues of national importance. I can tell you what works and exactly how to fix any national problem. However, there is one issue I don’t understand. I have…
When I was younger, I used to be an addict. I wasn’t an alcoholic. Not a porn addict. I smoked pot a couple times after football practice in high school, but no drugs since. I have been to Monte…
My old man was a piece of work. I know of no one who loved Christmas more. Dad had a huge personality. He’s been gone for 33 years, yet I still hear new stories. I often meet some older gent for the…
So what’s the deal with all the perverts and pedophiles at CNN? Don Lemon grabs a man’s private parts at a Hampton’s watering hole. He then assaults him in other ways that I find too tawdry to…
Reuters did a nationwide poll the other day asking Americans what was worrying them. The most pressing issue for most of you this Christmas season is “what do I get Rob for Christmas?” Aw shucks. I’m…
