It was a Sunday, four days before Thanksgiving, and my mom was in town visiting. My son had a good […]
I hate the gun control debate
There’s been another mass shooting in America. The victims’ families are grieving, some of the wounded and the might-have-been-killed-if-not-for-dumb-luck are […]
They had to shoot him
Bolton, Vermont, the day before yesterday: A distraught man who was pointing a pistol at his own head was shot […]
He feared for his life
Houston, Texas: Just after 3:30 a.m., agents in front called out “FBI!” and threw flash-bang grenades to stun the captors, […]
Who can make the NYPD look relatively citizen-friendly?
You guessed it, the NYPD’s union.
Narcan, cigarettes, and malarkey
In which Gov. LePage gives me a headache.
The city which must not be named
(Spoiler: it’s Sarajevo.)
Not having seen the State of the Union…
I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union speech last night. I had more pressing things to do, like play video games. But here’s how I imagine it went…
Where it is, or is not, legal to shelter the homeless
Picture if you will a man who has spare room in his basement. He knows some local homeless people and wants to help them out, so he lets them use his basement to get out of the cold.
Now picture what happens to that man.
Please, No One Tell the TSA About This
Frankfurt, Germany: After completing the required manual check of the hand luggage, the police officers determined that the luggage did […]