Donald Trump has been repeatedly claiming that if he is elected president again in 2024 he has a secret plan to end the Russian war on Ukraine “within 24 hours”. My first reaction was “that’s quick!”. This is the sort of insight my constituents grew accustomed to. Upon deeper reflection…

I like calamari. AlthoughI like it better as food than as a social companion. When calamari is on the menu at a restaurant, I often order it. However, if someone asked me in a poll if I’d rather have Calamari or any other food in the world, I’m afraid I’d…

I don’t play the lottery often. I generally consider it a waste of money, although I have made exceptions from time to time. When I was in college the daily number cost one dollar, and I would ask young women I met at parties to give me 3 numbers, promising…

Earlier this week, news broke that Clarence Thomas, best known both for being an associate justice on the United State Supreme Court and being my birthday buddy (June 23rd!) has been naughty again. Our not-favorite-of-all-time Justice has a long history of being naughty on the court. Much of said naughtiness…

Admittedly, sometimes I can overreact to personal trauma. For example, while I like sour pickles, I find sweet pickles utterly odious. So when some fast food restaurant unexpectedly put sweet pickles on my fish sandwich years ago, I was pissed. …

I spent 18 years of my life making laws. More accurately, since I spent 16 of those 18 years in the minority, I mostly voted NO on laws other people made. But nonetheless, I was involved in the lawmaking process. During this time, I saw it all. There were laws…

This week I did something awesome! You may think your life is full of excitement and glamor. You may be flying on a private jet to Cannes to see the latest Scorsese movie “Old Mob Guys Kill People”. You may be eating Alpaca livers with the Rolling Stones in Ibiza…

I’ve never been a huge fan of bumper stickers. They tend to bring nothing but trouble. How many people have been decapitated because they tailgated the car in front of them trying to read a bumper sticker printed in newspaper-sized type? Probably not a lot. But even zero is a…

My grandmother used to have a saying. “You shouldn’t need a Sidewinder missile to shoot down a Chinese balloon”. Grandma was a profoundly strange woman who spent her later years publicly threatening to eat various foreign leaders. Nonetheless, she did kind of have a point. Over the past week or…