I retired from a real job in 1993 and discovered very quickly how not to starve without a paycheck.   Got to admit, though, that getting that big fat Social Security check from da Guv’ment two years later was pretty cool.   Then life became a real gas, for sure.  Bliss…..no alarm clock. Rapture……no white-knuckle driving home [...]

Listen up, You Humen Bings! Hellooo Der. Dis is dat old lady who lives somewhere in middle  Amerrka.   Before I begin my little chat about the state of the planet and some of its more important inhabitants  (and I definitely do not mean the gasbags sitting on their blubber-butts in Washington, DC),   I’d like to talk about the non-humans on [...]