Thoughts Out Of Season

In my 53 years I have never seen an election cycle like the one being played out present. It's as if the Asylum for the Politically Insane was closed following an expose by Rivera and all the inmates were let loose to run the corridors of government. Geraldo First the GOP primaries. Included are a real estate magnate who's initial chances of winning the primary were about as good as a Twinkie surviving  unmolested at a Weight Watcher's meeting; then there was Ted Cruz who lost on nothing more superficial than he had a face that parents used to scare their children to sleep. We had Marco Rubio who drew almost unanimous suspicion for the strange lump that always stuck out from the back of his jacket. It only made matters worse for him when the Press discovered it was a backpack he used for the middle school he was attending at the time.There was Kasich (pronounced "case-itch" or "case-ick") who was invited to an Italian neighborhood and then goes ...

Scottish golfer Thomas Ross drowned when he attempted to retrieve a golf ball that he hit into a lake. Ross, who could not swim dove into the water "in a sort of frenzy' said his longtime friend Joe Palsh. "He was kind of miserly. I guess the thought of having to pay 3 Euros for another just drove him over the edge " explained Palsh. Ross, worth at least $75 million USD at the time of his death was eulogized by his only surviving relative, his son Jake who works at the New York Botanical Gardens in the United States as a dishwasher. He had this to say about his dad, "my father was so tight he squeaked. The man was so cheap once he took a dollar out of his pocket and George Washington rubbed his eyes from the light". He continued, "my father walked slightly bent forward because his spine curved that way. Doctors told him they could readily fix it but he refused. Being bent forward like that helped him to find change people had dropped in the street...