September 2, 2025

Hi Ira,Nice work…lots of ideas come to mind and I think you would be the perfect ranter for motorized scooters and bicycles that have me chewing my nails everytime one flies by, often with helmetless kids. Rant for me, please. I received this missive in response to my plea for topics my readers wanted me…

August 26, 2025

Here I am on a Sunday morning. I didn’t sleep well last night. I hadn’t chosen my rant for the next week and literally thousands of prospective rants were running through my head making me toss and turn all night. I had to choose wisely. Should I choose to rant about the person who parked…

August 19, 2025

When I first heard about cryptocurrency, I thought of that scary old TV series, Tales from the Crypt. A crypt is where you lay dead people to rest. This led me to associating crypto currency with death. I thought, “Another dead currency like the dollar.” Well, the dollar isn’t dead yet, but it’s bleeding a…

August 12, 2025

Extraneous: Not essential or vital. Accidental. Irrelevant. Do you have any extraneous body parts? Asking for a friend. I didn’t know I had any for the first part of my life. They taught me in school that all your parts work together to form a complete human. Nothing was said about any parts being accidental…

August 5, 2025

I’ve been having the strangest dreams lately. I had one the other night where Chet Huntley visited me to have a look at the book I’m writing. Some of you older folks might remember the Huntley, Brinkley Report (Good night, Chet- Good night, David) which was one of the premier news stations on network TV…