Billionaire inventor and all-around weirdo Elon Musk recently bought Twitter. Musk reportedly put a lot of people out of work, then asked some of them to come back, and told everyone they would have to work hard if they wanted to keep their jobs. Musk should buy some newspapers. That’s how the corporate chains doContinue reading “Blue checkmarks, gold checkmarks — whatever color it is, Elon Musk is getting Twitter wrong”
Category Archives: life
That time Grandma put balloons in our stockings
My late Grandma Rogers liked practical Christmas gifts. She got each of her five grandsons a shirt, pair of pants, underwear, and socks. She stuffed our stockings with toiletries and snacks including soap, toothpaste, nuts, and an orange. One year whimsy must have struck Grandma. She put a single balloon in each of our stockings.Continue reading “That time Grandma put balloons in our stockings”
Observing 6th graders recalls ‘Wild Kingdom’ narrators
When I was a boy, we learned about animals from a syndicated TV show called “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.” The show featured a zoologist named Jim Fowler clad in khaki safari gear and giving off a big Indiana Jones energy before Indiana Jones was a thing. Fowler went into the field to research wildContinue reading “Observing 6th graders recalls ‘Wild Kingdom’ narrators”
The Paragraph Stacker 