Grief Counselors.
Like most people I shudder whenever I receive news of a plane crash. Knowing that you are going to die shortly and violently and there is nothing you can do…
Tag: satire
Life Coaches.
Not long ago, there appeared an ad in a popular online classified site from a person in need of a considerable amount of typing and bookkeeping. The person who had…
The Office Prick.
Have you ever worked with or worse for, the office prick? This is the guy who never does any real work himself, but like a buzzard, hovers around until it’s…
Ass Backwards.
The President of the United States was in Mexico recently talking about issues important to both nations. What he said and what he wanted to say were far removed from…
The Right to Flight.
A friend of mine walked into an airport the other day, arrived at the check-in counter and said; “I’m going to Boston. I’ve got three suitcases. I want one sent…
No Loitering.
The Swiss have pretty much figured things out. Like the Great Wallendas, they learned how to walk a fine line. They are passionately dispassionate. They survived intact in a tough…
Where the Rubber Meets the Load.
Not wanting to be upstaged by Michael Jackson, the Pope went on a tour of his own recently. Like a criminal returning to the scene of the crime, he and…
Nothing Became Him.
Slowly, much too slowly, he began his fade. It took some time to realize because the depths in which he lurked were well out of sight. It seemed he would…
Vaticant.
The bishops in Rome were having a day Bedevilled by how to increase their pay The witches were burned, the commies at bay But all was not well, “Come let…
To Give the Roar.
There she lies so close to deathRest, a sane world holds its breathRealm of such historic painSadder grows if she is slainOr deprived of voice and penStilled by cowards posed…