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Rounding Third: They asked if it was a success

Our garage sale was almost two weeks ago. For days after, everyone wanted to know how we did. “Was it a success?” Well, that depends on your perspective. Are they asking about how much money we made? How much stuff we sold? How many people showed up? Truthfully, if the goal was to create more and better organized space in the garage – yes, it was a roaring success. But if the goal was to create a net addition to our savings account, it was a spectacular failure. Despite the raw, miserable days, a respectable amount of people showed up. The regulars. I didn’t know many of the ...

Getting tougher to make it in N.Y.

We congratulate New York City for their astounding mayoral choice. Forget his sympathies for the perpetrators of 9/11 and his overt anti-Semitism – that’s ancient history. Let us focus on Zohran Mamdani’s real passion: Marxism. Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Marxist, just like the heads of BLM and the non-existent ANTIFA organization that burns down cities and assaults journalists. Mamdani openly quotes Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and promotes the Marxist ideology of violent revolution - just like ANTIFA and BLM (see Manifest section 4). NYC Democrats have demonstrated ...

Dems need more Fettermans

As I watch the events of government unfolding, it has become clear that the Democrat party many seemed to favor decades ago has been left behind with socialist thinking. Do standard bearer democrats today appreciate the call of “Democratic Socialists of America” as their rally cry? New York City may be the first of many cities to go a socialist route. Democrats who care about the party need to step up and not let the socialists control what was once a revered party of the people. Bernie Sanders is in his glory; he finally has cohorts in his socialist thinking. Do people not ...

Organizing all that wonderful ‘stuff’

I foolishly planned a yard sale. I even hornswoggled Dear Richard into the idea. I’m an idiot. For the past three or four years, we’ve been donating our worthy goods to worthy charities. Simple. Easy. Sensible. Then one day I found a bunch of little things I don’t use and put them in a box for donation. Thereafter, every time I was in a closet, a kitchen drawer, or the garage and found something useless, I’d add it to the box. Hmm. But planning a sale was overwhelming. A truly organized sale would require tackling our jam-packed garage, which was armpit deep in ...

I still pine for pinecones

Preparing for this weekend’s garage sale, I came across a canvas bag I hadn’t seen in years. It was filled with pinecones. Giant Sequoia pinecones. Some of these babies are almost a foot long, and my memory of first seeing them goes back to 1949. 1949? Yes, I was alive then – and out of diapers. In fact, I was out of third grade. But the huge pinecones that my mother brought home from California fascinated me for their pure size. I studied redwood trees and the giant Sequoias, and I knew I had to see them for myself someday. My mother’s first trip to California in 1944 ...

General welfare having big impact on national debt

Over the past 10 months we have been treated to entertaining commentary from the Woke Mob. They are apoplectic because the source of all their virtue signaling — the bottomless pit of their government programs — has been threatened by the “fascist terror” in the White House. Unable to present a coherent argument against the Administration’s anti-waste policies, the Woke Mob resorts to the same old saw – that “Trump has no compassion.” This begs the question: Compassion for whom? Apparently the Woke Mob measures compassion by how hard they squeeze taxpayers and ...