Author: Ken Hogarty
From Dr. Melfi: What Your Pandemic/Election
Year TV-Binge-Diary Reveals About You
Dear Dr. Melfi, MARCH With intelligent Americans sheltering-in-place despite Presidential lies, I honestly admit I was powerless not to binge on Sex Education, The Affair, Outlander and the subtly simmering Derry Girls and Normal People around St. Patty’s Day. What…
Cash for Tats
[Naming Rights: Athletes’ Product Endorsements] A Croatian soccer player recently got paid to tattoo a product endorsement on his body. NASCAR driver outfits look like walking billboards, and other American sports have added uniform advertising. Athletes who show skin…
Memo: Principal Peter Principle’s Reminders as Teachers Return to In-Person Learning
To: Faculty, Monument High School From: Principal Peter Principle — Excited about your complete return to in-person student contacts. — Don’t fret learning consequences: We’ve arranged sub pool, some with teaching credentials, in the eventuality you’re hospitalized, or die, from…
Apple Memo — Marketing iPhones to Other Species:
Prominent Features, Apps & Uses From: Apple Marketing To: Executive Board CC: Research & Development [R&D]; Internal Animal Safety Representatives [ASF] We know you are as pleased as we are that sales keep booming as we produce new iPhone generations…
Memo from S.F. School Board: Now Changing Book Titles Instead of School Names
From: San Francisco Unified School District BoardTo: District English Teachers Background: • We recently identified and published the 44 school names we deem necessary to change.• Some object to initiating this measure when children and you aren’t in classrooms, but…
2050’s Online Pub Trivia Night: Trivia Questions about 2020 America
2050 promises to be a great year as we celebrate from here at what has recently become our coastal pub with another crowd-pleasing Trivia Night. 2050’s New Year’s questions will look back on a very different year, 2020: — Back…
Holiday Bowl Games: Movie Teams vs. TV Series Teams — A Gambler’s Guide to Possible Matchups
ESPN’s debating holiday bowl destinations for college football teams, but I, Tim the Tout, have the more interesting lines. The NCAA approved a television contingency, readied if Covid-19 surges so holiday bowls can’t field actual teams. Already, a number of…
CROSS X WORDS
PUZZLED BY THE CROSS WORDS IN THE RUN-UP TO NOVEMBER’S ELECTION? Leftist Anarchist? MAGA Deplorable? Patriot? Progressive? America-Hater? Racist, Sexist Pig? RED OR BLUE — Just for YOU: Catch a Clue DOWN Red 1. Every Covid-19 one slowed economy POTUS had…
Trump’s Next Job: Transitioning from Current POTUS GIG
Assuming he hasn’t started a Civil War and isn’t in jail, ex-President Trump, with money owed to God knows whom, might be looking for another job next year. Here are a few suggestions: Putin’s Pool Boy Dietician — Dr. Conley’s…
If Judge Amy Coney Barrett had been as Forthright as Judge Judy during Rubber-Stamped Hearing Q & A:
At the Senate hearing rubber stamping the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, wouldn’t it have been wonderful if Judge Barrett, like Judge Judy, answered questions with no filters? So, here the unfiltered exchange we would have loved to…