I can’t see it yet, because there’s still snow on the ground, but I know grass is lurking right under it. It’s doing push-ups and wind-sprints, gaining strength so it can pop up soon and bite me on the ass.   I hate lawns.  Just think of all the things I could have done instead of wasting so many, many, many days mowing lawns during the past eighty years. I could have gone to med school and cured cancer. I could have become a space man and kissed a star.  I could have learned long division, and fractions, and the parts of speech. Read More→

This has been a very confusing few days for the Geezer.   Normally I know who I like and who I dislike. I know where I’m going and where I’ve been. But this week has been an ass-grabber.

Just one year ago I had tears of pride in  my eyes as the new President was sworn in, thinking that we were finally headed for decent, brilliant, New Deal leadership to get us out of the horrible mess left behind by Cheny and his little helper. Read More→

Let’s talk about ugly things.  Most of the stuff Mother Nature creates is pretty nice, but now and then  something really ugly slips through. Take ears for instance. Our ears look like a small stack of bent meat. Even when we hang rings and rocks from them they are about as attractive as a Russian wrestler’s jock.  What good are ears?  If they’re there just to let sounds into our head, we have several other openings that would suffice. We could just open our mouth a little wider to hear things, or sniff sounds up our nostrils. Read More→