when bars were bars thick with smoke one rough man stood with scuffed work shoes resting on the brass rail picking whole raw onions from a soup bowl on the bar white beneath peeled thin skin eating onions like apples with salt and pepper smeared with thick yellow butter fat with flavor biting into his […]
Did a Secret Service sniper hold Thomas Matthew Crooks in his rifle sights but not pull the trigger until after Crooks opened fire on former President Donald Trump and people around him at a Butler, Pennsylvania, political rally? Did that Secret Service sniper wait for authorization to shoot that came only after Crooks wounded Trump, […]
A few years ago I paid Leo D’Angelo a couple hundred dollars for a suit. When I checked my closet this morning, I found a Mass card in one of the pockets of that black pinstripe suit I last wore to a first cousin’s funeral. That discovery alone illustrates the true value of the garment. […]
“Stop yelling at me, Shelly,” Hairball said to his old lady. “Miss Richards called and said Morgan had beer on his breath at the Pre-K-graduation rehearsal,” Shelly said. “In case you forgot, Morgan is five years old.” “I’m not the one who named a newborn baby boy after her favorite spiced rum,” said Hairball, whose […]
Rising from the pile of frantic Secret Service agents shielding Donald Trump from further attack, the former president raised his fist in defiance. Screaming “Fight, fight, fight!” he electrified the world with his triumphant courage under fire. The already chaotic 2024 presidential campaign exploded in a Butler, Pennsylvania, bloodbath Saturday afternoon with a homegrown assassin’s […]
