April 4, 2024

Tick, tick, tick. The deadline approaches. You can’t help but think of how penalties or jail time might be in your future. Did you do everything legal the past couple of years? Because if you didn’t, Artificial Intelligence will spot it and some of those newly hired IRS agents, armed with their M-16s and 1…

March 25, 2024

We’ve got a big one today, folks! The world is coming to an end, the stairway to Heaven is full and the only exit is the wide road to Hell. Our grid will be knocked out. The gubmint will unleash highly pathogenic diseases on us. The aliens are coming to take over. If not them…

March 14, 2024

I have been sorely disappointed by my call at the end of my rant, Useless Inventions #1, for comments on what you readers believe could be a useless invention. I had hoped there would be someone thinking like me who had a particular invention they were at odds with. Well, it didn’t happen. Fortunately, there…

February 29, 2024

I made a big mistake. I answered my phone and I said, “yes.” I hope it never happens again but I’m pretty sure it will. I just can’t help myself. The phone rang. I just paid my car and house insurance and was fuming over the increases. How the hell they can raise the premiums…

February 21, 2024

Some inventions are quite handy. Take electric toothbrushes, for instance. I used to think they were just for lazy people, but my dentist assures me that they do a far better job than the manual ones. Since I always brush my teeth first thing after arising from my slumber, I have found electric toothbrushes are…

February 1, 2024

Today, I’m going to be a curmudgeon. A lot of people are going to take issue with what I have to say. It doesn’t matter. I’m going to say it anyway. I hate holidays. Even weekends are awful. There is no rest for the wicked and I must be most wicked to have endured. Part…