Laughter is the Best Medicine
October 6, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Speaking demographically a la Paul Simon, Ammo Grrrll finds it TERRIBLY STRANGE TO BE 70! She writes: In 1968, when I was 22, Simon and Garfunkel released their fourth studio album, Bookends. It contains the beautiful, haunting song “Old Friends” with the lyric about the two old guys who “sit on the park bench like bookends.” Wait, what? At only 70? No pickleball, no swimming, no travel, no volunteering, no
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September 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I haven’t thought about the late comedian Pat Paulsen in a long time. He started running for president in 1968 and kept at it on a quadrennial basis, more or less like a comic version of Minnesota’s own boy wonder Harold Stassen (although Stassen himself became a punch line). See the history set forth in “Pat Paulsen for president!” The Library of Congress has even found a place in its
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September 29, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Thinking through the case against New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, Ammo Grrrll has formulated PERFECTLY LOGICAL REASONS TO HAVE GOLD BARS AND HALF A MILLION IN CASH HIDDEN IN YOUR HOUSE! She writes: Do we have THE best “Parliament of Whores” (hat-tip the late, great P. J. O’Rourke) that money can buy, or what? Sure, some might see the words “Bob Menendez” and “New Jersey” and think there must be
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September 22, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Having spent $78 on lunch at the Newark Airport, New York Times columnist David Brooks seized the opportunity to present himself as a man of the people in the Xeet below. Like Bill Clinton, he has felt their pain. Before he got burned in Newark, however, he apparently couldn’t understand the economic plight of Bidenomics. The X community has added a note that gives Brooks’s complaint a little “context.” This
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September 22, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Speaking of Slow Joe Biden, Ammo Grrrll declares he is NOT EVEN CLOSE….She writes: Our shambling, rambling, pathologically lying, senile kleptocrat of an occupant of the White House (a/k/a The Big Guy), said a couple of weeks ago that Climate Change is scarier than nuclear war. No joke, man! I disagree, and I regret, not all that respectfully. And I submit my case as follows: THINGS THAT ARE SCARIER THAN
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September 19, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has unfettered John Fetterman. Undoing the Senate’s sumptuary code, Schumer disclosed that staff for the chamber’s Sergeant-at-Arms will no longer enforce a dress code on the Senate floor. Schumer left the neck of the Democratic Party unmentioned, but everyone understands that Fetterman is the inspiration for Schumer’s initiative. Now Fetterman can freely wander the Senate in his accustomed attire of hooded sweatshirt and shorts. Cartoonist
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September 15, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll memorializes A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SUZANNE DENISE-OVITCH (With apologies and kudos to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). She writes: First, a Chag Sameach – a Happy Rosh Hashanah – to all our Jewish readers. We Jews celebrate “New Year” twice and it’s awesome that we get TWO official chances a year to resolve to do better. Of course, we can resolve to do better any second of any day.
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September 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
So here are two short videos that I ran across today, and that I find entertaining. In this one, a woman suggests a possible technical breakthrough in the world of telephones: Who wants to tell her? pic.twitter.com/ksgZXzmp2z — aka (@akafacehots) September 7, 2023 Many commenters seem to think she is serious. I think it is obviously a joke that she pulls off very well. This video is a song about
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September 8, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll contemplates what might be THE NATIONAL DIVORCE. She writes: A few weeks ago, John H posted a hilarious video of the amazing and heroic Riley Gaines calmly eating cereal and not saying a word. Meanwhile, the ninny juxtaposed next to her listed all of her pronouns and neuroses in a sad attempt to be “interesting” instead of just tedious and self-obsessed. It did make one wonder, hardly for
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September 1, 2023 — Scott Johnson
You know what Ms. Grrrll is talking about: I AM WOMAN! – AND YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT! She writes: Okay, ladies, and the men who love us – enough is enough. You know, conservatives in general are very nice people. Probably a majority are Christians or religious Jews – undoubtedly with a few Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus thrown in — who try to live by ethical standards including include The Golden
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August 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Is it something I said? A faithful reader drew my attention to the effusions of former frequent Power Line commenter Phronk Burrito: Perhaps you’ve seen these comments by Phronk Burrito and are just overlooking them: 1. He calls commenters here and other conservatives “filth” — a word search turned up 18 instances within the last month. – You know what filth, you have this in reverse. It doesn’t matter who
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August 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll recalls A FAMILY VACATION TO REMEMBER. She writes: One of the greatest things about my late, great Mama was that she had zero ability to be jaded. She grew up with nothing, achieved a modest middle-class life with some nice cruises and wintering in Florida, but she never lost that “gee whiz” sense of wonder – or of gratitude. I have prayed to emulate that. I have been
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August 19, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This video made me laugh. Riley Gaines munches on breakfast cereal with a deadpan expression while watching a lib’s self-absorbed TikTok video. The funny thing, as Riley notes, is that TikTok banned the video even though Riley does not utter a single word. Her only commentary is “poor cat,” which you will understand if you watch the lib woman’s litany: This video just got removed from my tik tok for
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August 18, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Like a Bergman (almost), Ammo Grrrll offers SCENES FROM A MEDITATION ON MARRIAGE (A mostly-true Spoof and a Parody wrapped in a Satire, some parts made up!). She writes: If you ever had the notion to apply to run an NIH grant experiment in which two cranky, eccentric, married Geezer-American writers were trapped for weeks on end in a 2400 square foot house located in a desert where the morning
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August 11, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has found them: Offers I CAN Refuse! She writes: Every day, dozens of times a day, my Email In-Box is filled with an infinite number of ways to separate me from my money. I have mentioned before that I am a big fan of a particular brand of jeans called NYDJ. That is an acronym for “Not Your Daughter’s Jeans.” They USED to be made in the U.S.
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August 5, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Matt Taibbi formulates a thought for the day on campaign 2024 so far: This race is turning into a parodic repeat of 2016, the difference being the shock waves that rippled across Washington on Election Day that year are already here, with all conceivable counter-measures already deployed. Instead of starting up a Russia investigation leaders hope will end in indictment, this time the guy is already indicted many times over,
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August 4, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll bears GOOD NEWS FOR ELDERLY DADDIES! She writes: You just never know when a piece of good news will bob to the surface in the Sea of Sludge and Despond in which we have been immersed for several years now. It has come to my attention that elements of the Federal Government have come up with a program to raise the self-esteem of retirees. And who is the
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