Does the lion gnawing on the wildebeest have the same happiness as a human at the Thanksgiving table?
Your New Year’s Day headache is likely from the diuretic effect of ethanol, which can lead to shrinkage of brain tissue.
You are ingesting micro-plastics every time you brush your teeth. Some are probably in your brain.
Tipping is beginning to look like defense spending. Increase, increase but no need to justify.
If the (economic) system in place before 1975 had stayed in place, the bottom 90% of Americans would have had almost $80 trillion more in 2023 than they did. 2025 RAND study
Thems whats gots keeps.
Prolonged participation in ‘shooter games’ can rewire brain structures muting empathy triggers.
Curious that the countries America attacks (Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria) are all oil rich. If I were Norway, I'd be worried.
Whatever it is that you produce - a baby, a book, a theory, it is a piece of the magic of creation, something that you do not fully understand. Freeman Dyson
Costco sells 100 million miles of TP each year. That’s 200 round trips to the moon. Let that visual sink in.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen
The 3 ages of man. Youth, Maturity and … You Look Great. Calvin Tomkins
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker. Samuel Clemens
The only wish Montaigne held for old age was a mind free from dementia.
Falls are the scourge of old age. I can testify.
Losing friends and family is another.
In my little home town (pop ~300) there were 3 grocery stores, 4 gas stations, 2 implement dealers, a restaurant, a tavern, a bank, a barbershop, a hardware store, a lumber yard, a creamery, a train depot, a trucking company, a butcher shop, a blacksmith, a hatchery, a grain elevator, a clinic, a telephone company, a fire hall, a post office, a school and 3 churches - 6 if you count the nearby country churches. None survived to see the 21st century - except the bank and the churches.
Forty million Americans have stopped attending church in the past 25 years.
Can you name a solo artist singer who hasn’t produced a Christmas Album? Didn’t think so.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is being dismantled due to its “climate alarmism”. NCAR is the foremost climate and weather research organization in the world.
Where did all the personal data that Elon Musk’s DOGE extracted from government databases end up?
Deluding the people is a serious offense anywhere in China.
Scammers absconded with $333M from bitcoin ATM’s in 2025 .. minor compared to the $2.5B lost to hacks.
The 119 page Epstein grand jury document has been released completely redacted.
If there is to be a world cataclysm, it will probably be set off by skim milk, Melba toast, and mineral oil on salad. A.J. Liebling
If high and outside were a strike, J.J. McCarthy would be a Hall of Fame quarterback. (Re-purposed baseball joke.)
PWHL referees are inept and inconsistent at the same time exhibiting a home team bias.
60 minutes is now a weak imitation of 20-20.
Apparently we are going to war again - over oil again.
"They stole our oil." Translation: American oil companies exploited a sovereign nation's natural resources for decades for enormous profit until that country took it back, paying the oil companies billions in compensation.
With the Venezuelan "exercise" our president has legitimized other powers <fill in the blanks> to execute their own imperialist adventures. And the odds of a Peace Prize have taken a deep nosedive.
In software, as in many endeavors, the first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90%
Of course, let’s build battleships. Completely unnecessary vanity spending. Battleships were obsolete before WWII ended, essentially floating artillery platforms. I don’t think we expect the Marines to storm Iwo Jima again. The last ship to ship battle was Surigao Strait in 1944. All of the last to be built WWII Iowa class battleships, including my father’s USS New Jersey, now serve the country as museums. Today, we have B1 bombers, missiles and drone swarms.
Obeying the law takes too long. DJT
Being poor is not a crime nor a reason to be hated.
The most surprising development of 2025 to me is the meekness of the Supreme Court. Second place goes to the ghosted Congress.
If you read more than two books last year you read more than half the US population. Gasp.
Ireland had no - zero - gun killings in 2025. Ireland!
When we visited Norway we mentioned to our Norwegian relatives that in Minnesota there was a tradition of serving lutefisk around Christmas and wondered if they did also. The were aghast. Why would we eat lye soaked cod? We have refrigerators.
There are things that we know we know. There are things that we know we don't know. There are things that we don't know we don't know. Donald Rumsfeld
Stoicism is a highly overrated virtue.
The lilac reminds us that life is brief. Bloom where you’re planted.
Elvis has been dead for 47 years.
Copyright © 2026 Dave Hoplin
Looks like Lowry still has the post office also.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I stand corrected.
DeleteAs poignant and cheeky as ever. Re: " over oil again." you might add that if anyone actually digs up and burns all of "our" proven reserves there is not much hope for the species, not to mention most of the rest of the biosphere. On the bright side, Jellyfish, I am told, will do pretty well.
ReplyDeleteIs the grain elevator still operating in Lowry?
ReplyDeleteI believe it is. Operated by CHS. Another miss by me.
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