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Kiss Me I’m Democrat: A Short Story

February 25, 2025

Pat rushed into the Scranton Irish bar screaming, “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, did you hear the news?” Mike swallowed the last of his Guinness, wiped his mouth on the back of his hand and ordered another pint. “I heard enough Lackawanna County political news on my walk here to make my head blow up like […]

“Something of Value” for Chris Kelly

February 14, 2025

Good newspaper columnists fix their mistakes. Mistakes hurt vulnerable people, including children. When a newspaper columnist promises a reader to correct a mistake in the next day’s paper, the columnist corrects the mistake in the next day’s paper. Scranton Times-Tribune columnist Chris Kelly made a mistake in his Feb. 2 column. Kelly’s words hurt people, […]

Haiku Harmony

February 11, 2025

All those years ago Bring us to this sacred space Walking together

Paddy’s Day in Trump Town Revisited

January 20, 2025

I did the Trump dance today. No music. Just me doing the Trump dance all by myself. With my feet planted firmly on the tile, pumping my arms back and forth in that nonlinear, contorted, non-rhythmic manner Trump invented and exhibits to celebrate himself, I shimmied and I shook. No, I was not celebrating Trump’s […]

Sad Signs of Bad Times

January 6, 2025

With one sinister stroke of his expensive presidential pen, Joe Biden betrayed the decent people who live in his Scranton birthplace. Biden recently commuted convicted child slave trader Michael J. Conahan’s 17 ½- year federal prison conviction for racketeering, freeing him from serving the rest of his prison sentence. The 72-year-old degenerate former Luzerne County […]

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