Laughter is the Best Medicine

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll has seasonal thoughts on WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM PROFESSIONAL SPORTS – especially BASEBALL. She wants commenters to know that she “will be slightly less interactive today as her son is here and we will be at a Spring Training game. It is just a coincidence (honest!) that this column was next up in the pipeline.” She writes: Unless you are very lucky, the first thing you learn »

Dressed to kill

Featured image The New York Post devotes its cover story to President Biden’s election-year budget. By Josh Christenson, the story is headlined “Biden unveils massive $7.3T budget with $5.5T in tax hikes, plans for ‘highest burden’ in US history.” The Post has created a classic cover to flag the story (below). It should probably come with some kind of a warning: “Viewing may induce nausea.” I’m filing this under Laughter Is the »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Nietzsche may have been on to something with THE WILL TO POWER! Thus spake Ammo Grrrll: This may come as a shock to my faithful readers, but I am no student of Philosophy. For some survey course, I was forced to read Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I went to the used bookstore on campus and found a copy. When I got back to the dorm, I found that »

Richard Lewis’s gift

Featured image Richard Lewis had the gift of making people laugh. It is a gift that gives physical pleasure. It resides in the realm of the id. You can see his gift on display in the brief exchange with Bob Costas on Costas’s old late-night show Later. By internal evidence, this clip must go back some 36 years, to 1988 or so. It’s not canned material. It wasn’t a routine. Lewis was »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll is not CLOTHING THE EMPEROR. She writes: In the middle of an unhinged hateful rant about Donald J. Trump AND especially about us, his “cult-like” wretched, stupid followers, Bob Costas let slip on the CNN ‘s Smerconish show that Biden is too old and needs to step aside to avoid losing to President Trump. He actually invoked the Emperor and His New Clothes image in reference to Biden. »

Richard Lewis, RIP

Featured image The comedian Richard Lewis died this past Tuesday evening of a heart attack at the age of 76. The New York Times has posted a good obituary by Clay Risen here. Variety’s obituary is posted here. Richard told the story of his personal struggles in The Other Great Depression: How I’m overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and dysfunctions and finding a spiritual (sometimes) life. Lewis »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll wants you to prepare for PREPPING AND OTHER POINTLESS ACTIVITIES. She writes: So some friends of ours ordered a whole bunch of MRE meals in case we experience an EMP attack which knocks out all of our electricity. For at least awhile, I would welcome the absence of television, computers, and cellphones. In other words, in my case, returning to 1958, which was when we got TV. Playing »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll fires off PART 3: LIES WE ARE FORCED TO BELIEVE – AND TO REPEAT. She writes: There is no way that we can possibly cover ALL the Orwellian lies and woke absurdities that we are forced to swallow daily AND repeat if we want to sit with the Cool Kids in the Lunchroom. Or have a job or a bank account. Most lies have been addressed by others, »

Living with contradiction

Featured image New York Post columnist Miranda Devine literally wrote the book on The Laptop From Hell. Subtitle: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide. Whenever she updates the continuing saga of Hunter Biden, attention must be paid. Today the reader’s attention is rewarded with low comedy: Hunter has been making all of his 16 lawyers in cases across the country go through this charade of »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll has a few more LIES WE WERE TOLD – INADVERTENTLY. Part 2 of a Series. She writes: Most of the “lies” we were told as children – often BY children – were not so much lies as hilarious misinformation. No, seriously, worse even than MSNBC or The View. Now our School District had at least two certifiably insane women teachers in grades K-6 whose main qualification appeared to »

Biden’s missed opportunity

Featured image Miranda Devine devotes her New York Post column to the proposition that President Biden should seize the opportunity to appear on CBS for the traditional interview before the Super Bowl this Sunday. Devine herself seizes the opportunity to highlight Biden’s increasingly obvious fitness for institutionalization of the Memory Care variety (the Post also flags its related editorial — “Joe Biden’s mental decline cannot be ignored”): It is presidential malpractice to »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image What we have here is/are LIES AND MISINFORMATION, a 3-part Series — Part 1: LIES WE TELL OURSELVES. Ammo Grrrll writes: Where would we pathetic, disappointing human beings be without “the little white lie”? If we honestly answered every inquiry as to whether or not “this dress makes me look fat,” or if we think that hideous haircut is flattering, we might have no friends. With few exceptions, men would »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll sees EVERYDAY MIRACLES IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. She writes: Before we begin today, let me just say that EVERY SINGLE TEAM I developed the slightest rooting interest in during the playoffs – LOST! Hoping to monetize this skill, I am offering to root FOR the opponents of your pet team for a price. Say, $100? A girl has to use what meager skills she has. »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and A FAILED LIFE COACH? Ammo Grrrll writes: Trigger Warning: the following column COULD possibly be considered “sexist” or “unfairly stereotypical.” If the talking points I raise do NOT apply to you, then why be offended? And if they do, perhaps it will be a classic “teachable moment.” In any event, it is My Truth and therefore unassailable by any form of Logic known »

Still funny after all these years

Featured image Lloyd Billingsley draws on Woody Allen’s Bananas (1971) to trace the outline of a mania — the mania of Democrat orthodoxy. I was thinking about Bananas over the weekend as I revisited Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) and reread Kenneth Lynn’s (great) Charlie Chaplin and His Times. Early in Bananas Allen pays tribute to Chaplin and Modern Times. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a “research tester” for General Equipment. In the »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Sign up ahead: WATCH FOR WILD HORSES! Ammo Grrrll writes: What has become of Humanity? Even the last time I was in Maui (2001), which used to be my Happy Place on all the Earth, there were signs in parking lots for parks, beaches and museums: “Lock all your car doors. Do not leave anything visible in cars. We are not responsible for loss.” Maui is a small island. Almost »

Shady Grove

Featured image The Star Tribune represents the mainstream media at work in Minnesota. It is the dominant voice of conventional wisdom that relentlessly peddles the left-wing line on its news pages and its editorial positions. It is, moreover, a profitable business owned by a billionaire. Glen Taylor bought it in 2014 for $100 million. He may have assumed some of the paper’s debt in the process. It reportedly makes a substantial amount »