by - October 2, 2017 9:12 pm
The original intro for this essay was scrapped after that horrible thing in Vegas. Insanity. Y’all can send your loads of thoughts and prayers, but don’t expect real leadership on…
by - September 19, 2017 6:52 am
A robotic, voice-activated refrigerator is being tested. It will deliver to your IKEA couch your over-priced, millennial-loving craft beer. Don’t need the dog. Don’t need your legs. This is the…
by - September 4, 2017 7:42 pm
Based on them fancy history books and reports from the fake news media, when Katrina hit New Orleans the president was NOT Obama. He may have lost his birth certificate…
by - August 19, 2017 6:24 pm
This upcoming eclipse is not a normal cosmic event. It’s biblical. This eclipse is followed by another seven years later. The eclipse paths cross in Missouri over the New Madrid…
by - August 6, 2017 6:16 pm
Recently learned there are just two categories of Americans. You have those who refrigerate ketchup and those who don’t. Depending on who you ask, one group represents all that’s wrong…
by - July 27, 2017 7:23 pm
Editor’s note: This essay was first posted 11 months ago to note the second year of The Unexpected Project. We post it again to welcome the third year. –––––––––––––––––––––– They…
by - July 23, 2017 1:16 pm
If Mr. Musk’s hyperloop thing doesn’t soon arrive in Chicago, there is always Mildred. Best Uber driver ever. Her tiny red Kia used every part of the interstate except the…
by - July 16, 2017 9:54 pm
Moses, it is told in the Old Testament, smashed the first version of the Ten Commandments he brought down from “the mount.” Michael Reed used his car to smash the…
by - July 5, 2017 3:15 pm
On the weekend we celebrate our freedom, law enforcement agencies around the country proudly boast of having more DUI checkpoints. Happy 4th of Jul-Irony. When’s that medical marijuana become available?…
by - June 21, 2017 7:26 pm
Was told the language in this Riff Raff stuff sometimes gets too blue. The first thought was to respond with something Richard Pryor might say. Second thought was something I…
by - June 6, 2017 3:14 pm
It’s been brought to my attention that strawberries are not berries, but bananas and pumpkins are. Anything that can be mixed in a blender with vodka and rum and other…
by - May 29, 2017 1:59 pm
Tried to get this essay approved through Russian back channels. Turns out, that’s not a good idea. But the essay contains good words, some of the best words. Some of…
by - May 14, 2017 5:57 pm
A friend wanted to know if the fiasco with Fort Smith’s recycling program is the result of fraud or stupidity. Yes. In spades. And then some. Let’s consider why the…
by - April 25, 2017 6:18 pm
There is this guy dressed as a clown singing The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” to the music of Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” Genius. America is great again, already. Even if we…
by - April 18, 2017 2:24 pm
It’s been one of those weeks where one feels they drew the short straw on a United Airlines flight. Hell, not even the Luftwaffe had passengers removed by Hitler. Or…
by - April 4, 2017 10:26 pm
Should have been at the gun range this week getting some religion as the Lord R. God intended. What follows are musings that might have occurred between busting caps for…
by - March 19, 2017 5:12 pm
Again we take a few bite size bits from the thoughts that bounce around my head during a regular week. Or an irregular week. Normal seems to have taken an…
by - March 11, 2017 5:37 pm
A lot of stuff rolls through the days and weeks and hyperactive impulsive minds of us enemies of the American people who daily and deftly deliver dishonesty. What follows is…
by - January 1, 2017 10:47 am
Editor’s note: This essay first appeared Dec. 28, 2008, on The City Wire, now Talk Business & Politics. It continues to be an appropriate note to begin a new year….
by - November 20, 2016 11:12 am
Sadness about the loss of such positive energy in this troubled world is natural but please do not be sad for the close friends and family of Patricia Brown, for…
