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So, for Christmas I get one of those spiffy new E-readers. The gift box just materialized under the small Douglas fir that is this year’s Christmas tree, left there by some Secret Santa. Several days later, no one has claimed responsibility for the gift, though I have a short list suspects. My holiday prize was wrapped in a small book-sized (ironic, hunh?) box, cleverly...

The air is crisp and cool, Christmas music blares throughout the entire free world -- and even France. It all signals that a favorite time of the year is upon us, once again: PBS Pledge Week. Every year, I can hardly wait to see what new scheme the PBS people will try to guilt us into coughing up unholy amounts of cash so they can sponsor even more Doo Wop Reunions and also televise stuff...

Lately, I’ve become as fidgety as a small kid riding in a car bound for a place he’s never been. “Are we there yet?” The destination is the End of the Recession. Until we get ‘there,’ I am tumbled about in the backseat of an old roadster careening down a bumpy and pot-holed Recession Road. I am hanging on, bouncing up and down, praying that whomever is driving will sober up —...

There‘s always one thing or another going on with me. I guess that it’s just the nature of things and as my late Uncle Copernicus would say “Kid, if it’s not one thing, it’s two or three of ‘em.” My current problem is musical. For the past few days, there has been a song rattling around inside my head-like a couple of loose marbles. I can’t seem to turn it off, at least...

There‘s always one thing or another going on with me. I guess that it’s just the nature of things and as my late Uncle Copernicus would say “Kid, if it’s not one thing, it’s two or three of ‘em.” My current problem is musical. For the past few days, there has been a song rattling around inside my head-like a couple of loose marbles. I can’t seem to turn it off, at least...

“Hey, I’m home. What’s that I smell?” “Oh, that? It’s furniture polish. Bought a new kind… finished polishing just as you walked in the door. How was the golf? You and Booger win today?” "I swear. They oughta make furniture polish that smells like the inside of a new car.” “You say that about everything. I remember when you told your barber that he needed to invent...

I held my breath. I always hold my breath when the scientists at Harvard sound the bell and tell us to gather round. Harvard scientists are always up to something; always studying one thing and then another and you never know what they are going to come up with next. Whatever it is though, you can bet that it is going to be life changing; some fun activity that you’ve done all your life and...

Rhonda Williams recently hit the jackpot! A few weeks ago, the Fairburn, Georgia resident was cleaning out her purse and discovered a lottery ticket worth a hundred eighty nine thousand dollars! A month prior, Irving Przyborski came across a lotto ticket that he’d bought and misplaced a year ago. The Chicago cab driver’s find was worth nine million dollars! Heartwarming lost and found...

“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...

Author's Note: Recently, in Action Comics 900, Superman strongly considers renouncing his American citizenship. He thinks that it would be better if he were a citizen of the world. Well buddy-boy better think again … -Will “Thanks for coming on short notice, Superman. Please have a seat. Take a load off.” “…my pleasure, Mr. Pres …” “Also, I want to thank you for walking...