Laughter is the Best Medicine
October 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll exhorts us to “LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY!” (Encourage, organize, donate, poll-watch or shut the heck up!). She writes: Excellent columnist and novelist Col. Kurt Schlichter did a Vulcan mind meld a few weeks ago, got into my head, and stole the idea for a column I already had made many notes on! It wasn’t the first time he had done it, either. He and
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October 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have missed the news that Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted from the position of White House press secretary to senior adviser. Whom is she advising? As KJP’s predecessor liked to put it, we’ll have to circle back to you on that one. The Biden administration has recently announced that it is sending $157 million in additional funding to Lebanon. Lebanon has no independent government. The government is under
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October 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is not going down that yellow brick road in KITTIES AND PUPPIES AND GEESE, Oh My! She writes: When I was a teenager, somebody, probably a guy, showed me this humorous little aphorism. It’s an example of word play, so it has to be shown rather than told. I got quite a kick out of it, having heard the “original” – “You can lead a horse to water,
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September 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll contemplates ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN. She writes: October 4th, 2024 Oh my goodness. As my wonderful Astronaut friend Jim always says on my birthday, “Congrats on another trip around the sun.” And as my late Daddy often said, “Any day above ground is a good day.” And so next week I turn 78. So much for my childhood certainty that I would die spectacularly and young, some
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll poses the perfectly reasonable question: How DARE You?! She writes: I think one of the most bizarre aspects of the DNC convention – I was only able to tolerate brief clips of that Joy-orama – was tasking the Walz Attack Weirdo with the insane job of making FUN of the fact that J.D. Vance went to Yale! I am not easily shocked any more, but that approach did
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September 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The biggest play in the 49ers-Vikings game on CBS this past Sunday was Sam Darnold’s 97-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Justin Jefferson. Back judge Tyree Walton turned in an incredible performance himself on the play, keeping up with the players as he ran down the field and finished off motoring backwards with his eye on the play. This official’s speed tho!!!! pic.twitter.com/l9fgMX2f9y — GopherHole.com (@GopherHole) September 16, 2024 I
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September 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll revises Thoreau in LEADING LIVES OF SPUTTERING EXASPERATION! She writes: In 1854 Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I’m sure he had sympathy for such men, but he HAD to realize that not everybody could go squat in a 10 x 15 cabin for two years two months and two days and just write while communing with Nature. Not
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September 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Someone has had the clever idea of running the credits for Seinfeld over one of Kamala Harris’s “routines” (video below). Her show isn’t exactly about nothing, although it sounds that way. The nothing she says conceals the big plans she has in mind when she sits behind the big desk in the Oval Office. Pro tip: Don’t cackle at your own “jokes.” Don’t provide your own laugh track. To the
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September 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has a bead on it: JOY IS WHERE YOU FIND IT! She writes Like every single bloomin’ thing about the Harris-Walz campaign, Kamala’s Ode to Joy is stolen. Lucky for her, not everybody is a political junkie and hardly any junkie of any kind is as old as I am! But in 1968, at the height of racial unrest and massive controversy over the Vietnam War, Hubert H.
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August 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll declines the invitation to COME FOR THE MAGGOTS IN YOUR FOOD…STAY FOR THE FREE VASECTOMY! She writes: Who says I can’t still be surprised? For a long time now, the Democrat Party has been the party of creepy degeneracy and absolute hatred of children – except as prey (where IS Anthony Weiner these days?). Ah, there used to be the good old days, when many wretched things were
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August 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has this Kamala thing scoped out right on time in HOPE AND CHANGE REVISITED. She writes: When the Obama Phenomena started really rolling in early 2008, and suddenly every white woman I knew was carrying his “autobiography,” I began to get a sinking feeling. A relative happened to attend the Oprah Show the time The Lightbringer was a guest and she was ecstatic about him. Soon came the
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August 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has forwarded her timely Q & A WITH THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. She writes: Dear DNC: If being a person who identifies as a woman and whose skin tone is a color other than white is a GOOD, EVEN HISTORIC thing, wouldn’t TWO people assigned at birth to be women of beige-ocity have been an even MORE wonderful MORE HISTORICAL thing? So why didn’t Kamala choose another Black
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August 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll claims to be DOG-PADDLING IN THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND, but there is life in the old grrrll yet. She writes: I have not watched a minute of the Olympics. Oh, I have nothing against most of the premier athletes – at least the ones who don’t kneel for the Anthem. I wish them well and hope the U.S. clobbers everybody else on medals. And it’s not even because
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August 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll finds that DEHUMANIZING MAKES A COMEBACK. She writes: I hope that most Power Line readers enjoyed the Republican National Convention as much as I did. Though I am a tough grader on public speakers, I thought there was not a single speech that was not at least a strong B+. And one of the most enjoyable speeches was from the poised and lovely young Kai Trump, oldest grandchild
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July 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
COVERING ALL MY BASES! That’s what Ammo Grrrll is doing this week. She writes: I am NOT a fan of the news coming at us at the speed of light! Let the record show that it is Sunday, July 21, and I have to write a column to be submitted on Wednesday that will run on Friday, and there’s not a snowball’s chance in Hades that whatever I say about
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July 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll celebrates THE JOYS OF RETIREMENT. She writes: Good grief, I give up! Two weeks ago, I sent off a pleasant little column on how we should “mingle” more with people who have views which differ from ours. And Joe Biden turns in the worst, most shocking debate performance since a high school classmate of mine named Barry tried to borrow MY debate cards in a mock debate in
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July 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I am sad to note the death of comedian Bob Newhart at the age of 94. The New York Times has posted an obituary, a 2019 interview, six performances to stream, and a 2014 profile — “Master of the one sided conversation.” Newhart was a laughter is the best medicine kind of guy. He will be remembered and he will be missed. RIP. I saw Newhart perform live in Minneapolis
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