Laughter is the Best Medicine
March 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is right on time with EIGHT DAYS EARLY! She writes: Some things that come early are good: Tax refunds that arrive before most people even get their payments sent off. Babies whose ninth month of womb life is in August deciding to give Mom a break from the heat and humidity and arriving a week before their alleged due date. Meeting your weight loss goal a month or
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March 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll identifies a few PHRASES AND “RIGHTS” I COULD HAPPILY LIVE WITHOUT. She writes: I will start with just two, and save some others for another column. First: You go, girl! Dear Lord, spare us from any more “firsts” for women. It was one thing when Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice in 1981 (appointed by President Reagan, just FYI). She had faced actual discrimination
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March 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is an old-fashioned grrrll. She is keenly aware of THE IMPORTANCE OF MANNERS. She writes: When I was a young teenager in rural Minnesota, the only magazine in our home was Reader’s Digest. It had several humor sections, including Humor in Uniform and Laughter Is The Best Medicine. It had a section meant to build your vocabulary. And very short and interesting little stories. I loved it and
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March 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrlll wonders why ONLY FIVE THINGS!? She writes: To me the most astonishing thing about the Sturm und Drang over being forced to email the DOGE Detectives 5 things you did IN A WEEK, is the minuscule nature of the demand. Let me get this straight. No, really, because it is impossible for me to believe. I started working full-time – summers — when I was 14. Not even
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March 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I’m so old, Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress last night was past my bedtime. That’s a joke, kind of, but it reminds me. A perceptive reader has called me out for lying in “Only yesterday” earlier this week. He writes: In his essay [sic] “Only yesterday”, Mr. Johston [sic] states that he “suffered PTSD reading Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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March 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
“I”m so old…” is supposed to predicate an ironic reference to something that happened recently. I’m so old I find that an increasingly hard joke to make. As I am taking a vacation from the political news to cover the Feeding Our Future trial full time, I thought I would offer these unironic confessions of an aging political junkie. I’m so old… • I made my first friend during the
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February 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
We have passed “Positively Fourth Street.” Danger up ahead. We are arriving POSITIVELY BEYOND PARODY! Ammo Grrrll writes: About a week ago now – a once-a-week columnist can NEVER be “current” – the Honorable Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, gave a news conference to address her whereabouts during the devastating wildfires in Palisades and elsewhere. Let’s recall just for starters that one of her election promises was that she
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February 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll sheds no tears for the diminishing job market in Race Hustling – A Dying Profession. She writes: Because Joe/Max and I have been downright giddy for a month now I try not to click on stuff that will only make me angry. But sometimes stuff just falls into my sightline and I am forced to look. Lately I have learned to resist any clickbait headlines that involve Cher,
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February 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Former Vice President Kamala Harris visited backstage with the cast and crew of Wonderful World on Broadway over the weekend. The New York Post helps with a transcription of a few of the quotable quotes from her remarks along with a great screenshot of Kamala in mid-flight. This is one of the quotes: “When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also let’s
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February 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Former CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared in Minneapolis as the keynote speaker at our Cardozo Society dinner in 2009. I had the opportunity to have an unpleasant conversation with him during the happy hour before the dinner. He must be one of the most repulsive people I have ever met, and that was long before Toobin was exposed, well, you know the rest. Let’s just say exposed sufficiently
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February 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll wishes you a HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! She writes: Here we are, dear readers, it’s Valentine’s Day and if you are here early enough, it may still not be too late to buy your Special Person a dozen red roses, or possibly, a dozen eggs. For me, Valentine’s Day is fraught with grade school memories of trying to slalom through the steep slopes of disappointment connected with the holiday.
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February 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll declares that IT WAS MEANT FOR GOOD! She writes: When I was a very small child, I used to hear my dear Mama say, “The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” Childhood is a very confusing time. Like the child who drew a chubby man in the manger scene for Sunday School and told his teacher that was “Round John Virgin, Mother and Child,” misinterpretations can
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January 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I came across Megyn Kelly’s video of her full one-hour interview with Frontline for “Trump’s Comeback” (broadcast January 21 and accessible at the link). Frontline has also posted background on the episode here. Amid the voluminous listed credits I wondered who wrote the show. Was it “reporters” Vanessa Fica and Brooke Nelson Alexander? No! The credits attribute the writing to producers Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. Megyn Kelly, by
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January 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Joe Biden proved 80 to be more like the the new 100 than the new 70. Ammo Grrrll denies that 70 IS THE NEW 60. She writes: InstaPundit is one of my favorite sites, kind of like Drudge used to be before he lost his mind. So when I saw the highlighted headline 70 Is The New 60 I clicked on it. Supposedly, we current Geezer-Americans are doing better at
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January 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll doesn’t really lament OH! THE HUMANITY…She writes: Are you all as GIDDY as I am? I am even happier than I was at about this time in 2017, because we had not yet experienced the worst that has happened to our beloved country. All freedom lovers, all patriots interested in free expression, everybody who thinks a country without borders is not a country should be equally happy. Anybody
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January 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In his inaugural speech on Monday, President Trump let the word go forth to friend and foe alike: “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.” In the video clip below Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre responds to questions about this controversial statement of policy in an interview with the CP24 news channel.
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January 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll knows there’s no harm in asking: ARE PEOPLE REALLY JUST MORE STUPID THAN THEY USED TO BE? She writes: Decades ago I saw a comprehensive test from the late 19th century meant for 8th graders. I believe it came from Kansas, or some other square-ish state in Flyover Land. It covered mathematics, English grammar, and the History not only of the United States, but detailed history of whatever
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