When Your Mayor is Dressed in Drag

Stu Rasmussen used to be a guy.  Now Stu Rasmussen is best known as Carla Fong.   Stu as Carla wears plunging neckline dresses and mini-skirts.   Stu or Carla is sixty years old, so even on a good day and with movie star looks being sixty and wearing mini-skirts is a questionable strategy.   Especially when you [...]

Federal Drug Sniffing Beagle Hangs Up Its Nose

Shiloh, the Beagle, has called it quits from public service.   That’s right, after eight years on the job one of our finest federal officer has decided his day is done.  According to an article in the Los Angeles Times he will no more wander about the Los Angeles International Airport’s Bradley Terminal in search of [...]

Costco at Thanksgiving and the Battle for Pumpkin Pie

Everybody wants a slice of the pie.  Pumpkin pie, that is.   It is tasty and seasonal.  Pumpkin pie is well worth fighting for.   Just ask some of the customers at Costco.
Mumbai had its terrorists.  Wal-Mart has its trampled workers.  Costco has its pumpkin pie.   While the world recoils at the horrible slaughter in the Indian [...]

At Wal-Mart You Can Shop Till You Drop

By now most of the known world has read in the New York Daily News or elsewhere about the tragedy  at a Long Island Wal-Mart, where an employer died after being trampled by a couple of hundred people.   Apparently, he made the mistake of trying to hold them back and paid the price with his [...]

The Good Thief, Exit Ted Stevens

There is a great Bob Dylan line from his song, “Sweetheart Like You.”   The line goes, “Steal a little, they throw you in jail.  Steal a lot they make you king.”
Ted Stevens was a king in his own right.   Alaskans adored him.   He was a major earmarker who saw to it that his home state [...]