Tomato Fork

Tomato Fork

You sit down for dinner. Your leftmost fork is not only smaller than its dinner fork cousin to its right, it also has one tine that is shorter than the rest. You are not alarmed by this. You know that this is a tomato fork. That one shortened tine is to assist you in...
You Know Who’s OK? This Guy!

You Know Who’s OK? This Guy!

We’re living in a very strange time. A whole lot of people have lost their jobs and can’t pay rent or buy groceries. People who are struggling through an unemployment system that was never meant to accommodate this many people. There’s the small businesses that are...
My Revised Coronavirus Math

My Revised Coronavirus Math

I’m not an epidemiologist. But I can do basic arithmetic. Follow me on this. If 40% of the world population becomes infected with this novel coronavirus, that’s 3 billion people. 40% of 7.8 billion is 3.12 billion. So about 3 billion people will be infected with this...
Can’t vote for Joe? Listen up.

Can’t vote for Joe? Listen up.

You’re disappointed that Joe Biden is now leading in the Democratic primary race. You’re passionate about Bernie. Or Warren. Or whatever. Joe is a 77-year-old geezer with a long history of saying and doing stupid shit. Plus he sounds like he hasn’t had a new idea in...