Archive for June 2022
FYI: WSJ Letter to the Editor
Whatever His Faults, Biden
Is Still Preferable to Trump
Regarding William David Stone’s letter to the editor (“In Life There Are Trade-Offs,” June 14). President Biden doesn’t control gas prices, though he is considering a federal gas-tax holiday. He doesn’t control the crime rate. Nor does he control Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping or baby-formula manufacturers.
Republicans never miss and opportunity to denigrate Mr. Biden. But at least this president can speak in clear, coherent sentences, isn’t flaunting loose morals and isn’t in a position to be blamed for inciting a rebellion against our government.
Give me a president worthy of respect for trying to unite our fractured country instead of urging people to storm the capitol, where they wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence.
(Name withheld because letter was in June 17/22 WSJ)
Columbia, S.C.
Going On a Diet . . .
. . .will help you combat inflation on two fronts.
You’ll cut back on the escalating cost of food
as well as the need to buy record-priced gasoline
to go shopping.
When You Return From Space . . .
. . . you’ll find everyone down here
older than you are, we’re told.
Heck, I found that out
at my last high-school reunion.
Another Sign of a Diminishing Sunrise . . .
. . .I’ve been quarantined half a week now and regulations demand lunch and dinner be delivered to such sequestered residents.
I call daily to ask what’s on the menu but to really remind staff I’m here.
Today, lunch was not delivered. No one knows why.
And the dinner server remained in the hallway this evening to wave when I opened to door to retrieve my food.
To Really Be a Success . . .
. . . you have to develop the art
of making your mistakes
when no one is looking.
COVID Quarantine . . .
. . .has certain advantages.
I haven’t done a damned thing
for the past three days.
Listening to the Constant Criticism Here . . .
. . . brings to mind an Arab proverb:
Stop for every barking dog
and your journey will never end.
There Are Two Types . . .
. . . of people in this world,
but the bully
manipulating the inmates here
is neither one of them.
In Line With Today’s Woke Generation . . .
. . . a tablemate thinks he has a perfect renaming of a gun,
any gun, so it won’t offend anyone.
He says we can call it
a cordless hole puncher
A Whole Shelf of Toilet Paper . . .
. . . tumbled down and almost buried a guy at the supermarket the other day.
After he crawled out of it, he said he was OK,
“Just soft-tissue damage.”
Mature Life Features 