My wife (God bless her!) isn’t afraid to challenge me (lovingly, but firmly) when she thinks I need a wake-up call. She did so last night, pointing out that I’m becoming a “grump”, preoccupied with all the negative things going on in the world, but failing to recognize that there’s still a lot of… Continue reading Stop and smell the flowers along the way…
Tag: Mistakes
Remembering an epic sports anniversary
On October 3, 2021, political history was made after a Nascar race. Seldom has a sports reporter put her foot in her mouth quite so comprehensively . . . or so memorably! Peter
I guess that’s one way for doctors to stay current…
Looks like Ireland is still crazy. Doctors in Ireland had to remove 50 AA and other “cylindrical” batteries from the body of a 66-year-old woman who had swallowed them all on purpose, a recent article in the Irish Medical Journal says. When doctors at St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin first examined the woman,… Continue reading I guess that’s one way for doctors to stay current…
Saturday Snippet: A hunting blast from the past
I mentioned earlier this week that Cedar Sanderson’s hunting anthology “How Not to Shoot Fish, and Other Deer that Got Away” has just been published. I have a story in this anthology. It’s one I told more than a decade ago in these pages, so I’m sure most of you won’t remember it. I… Continue reading Saturday Snippet: A hunting blast from the past
Doofus Of The Day #1,095
Today’s award goes to a sadly (?) departed (and certainly misguided) thief in Ghana. The authorities in Ghana are investigating after a man was mauled to death by a lion after he climbed into a zoo enclosure in the capital, Accra. The man, described as middle-aged, died from his injuries after Sunday’s attack, officials… Continue reading Doofus Of The Day #1,095
Own goal
This must be embarrassing for the Russian armed forces . . . if not career-ending for some of them. Russia took delivery on a handful of advanced Su-34M fighter bombers late last month, and one has already been shot down over Ukraine. It wasn’t Ukrainian forces who managed to down the twin-seat jet, however…… Continue reading Own goal
An acute failure of the victim selection process
It seems that over the past weekend, a number of Antifa cells/chapters/whatever decided to demonstrate against the Honky Tonk Bar in Salem, OR because they heard it was going to host “an anti-open-borders event”. It seems the Honky Tonk Bar is sometimes patronized by large groups of (equally large) bikers, whose philosophy of life… Continue reading An acute failure of the victim selection process
Doofus Of The Day #1,094
Today’s award goes to the Russian military commander(s) in Ukraine who decided to test anti-air-raid smokescreens defending the bridge over the Kerch Strait to Crimea . . . without, it seems, thinking of possible consequences. The War Zone reports: Russia has deployed a number of countermeasures to the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia and… Continue reading Doofus Of The Day #1,094
This one’s for Alma Boykin
Alma’s a writer and blogger, and also a singer and a perpetrator of puns. I think she’ll get several belly-laughs out of this list of musical terms, which appeared on MeWe yesterday. I can see her choir director doing a facepalm as Alma trots these out at the next rehearsal . . . Peter
If you choose to sow bad seed, don’t complain about the harvest
Oregon is finding that out the hard way. Overdose rates in the state of Oregon rose by 700% after voters in the state approved a ballot measure to decriminalize all hard drugs. Voters in the state of Oregon voted to decriminalize all hard drugs in the pursuit of encouraging those struggling with drug addiction… Continue reading If you choose to sow bad seed, don’t complain about the harvest