Meanwhile, back on the left coast, where Governor Goddamn Handsome is running for re-election—but not, as rumored, with the tourist-boosting tagline “California: Your State for Sky-High Gas Prices, Bureaucratic Chaos and Abortions While U Wait”—the Sacramento City Council continues to wrestle with a proposal to allow “cannabis lounges” to be built (and even frequented!).
Etiquette suggestion: If you’re planning to attend any festivities today or tonight in commemoration of Earth Day, try to refrain from spraying your hair or underarms in advance. This is the one 24-hour period for which you’ve been saving that tube of VO5 and travel-kit roll-on deodorant since Earth Day began in 1970.
As we all know, “woke” is the grammatically grotesque term used to define whether a person is politically correct, progressive, gender-sensitive, culturally appropriate and phenomenally tedious to spend time with.
Free speech is becoming a more situational concept than the non-existent free lunch. But both come with a complete set of baggage.
The news near the close of 2021 that Dr. Mehmet Oz would be running to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate was hardly a medical or political breakthrough.
It’s not exactly an onomatopoeia. That’s a word that sounds like what it’s depicting, like “sizzle” or “plop”— and not, despite how it sounds when spoken aloud, what two-year-old boys yell to their mothers when nature calls and they can’t quite reach the doorknob on the closed bathroom door.
From around 1947 to 1958, a simple, direct and invasive question was a reliable elevator of blood pressure: “Are you now or have ever been a Communist?”
The old expression, “Suppose they gave a party and nobody came?” is starting to sound like it applies to another party: Democrats.
“Just when I think I’m out they pull me back in!”
Out of the $4 billion requested by the California High-Speed Rail Authority, this is how much money has been designated for it in the state’s $262.6 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2021-22, which began this month: $0.00.
