Madden Mischief

That’s the lesson we learned from President Biden’s passing his baton or torch or whatever you want to call surrendering your cognitive driver’s license when stepping down as a candidate for reelection as President. It resulted from successive flubs in those no flub zones, nationally televised interviews and presidential debates. Flubs in those zones are … More Age-Related Flubbing in No Flub Zones Proven to be Fatal Flaw for Presidents

Harriet, help!  We’re surrounded by them, sometimes honoring, uplifting and memorializing us, other times ridiculing and demeaning us, making slapstick fun or kicking us in the butt.  Then we have those inciteful suggestions from on high, The Fight House, (used to be The White House) to keep Trump in your “crosshairs” and “bull’s-eyes,” rhetoric which … More Hey Harriet, Are Epithets Ethical to Keep Tagging People With? Or Might They Incite More Crazies to Attempt to Assassinate?

That’s right, fellow Americans, this is a time more than ever we need to show unity.  It has never been timelier to do so after almost losing a candidate for President of the United States by a would-be assassin’s bullet. That nefarious bullet came only two inches, just two insane inches from possibly having killed … More On Election Day 2024, Democrats and Republicans, Make This Our Sign of Unity, The Flag of The United States of America, Proudly Displayed on Our Right Ears as We March to The Polls

By Tom Madden No, this is not the lead-in that I originally wrote to my story about Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Commission’s decision not to hire lifeguards.  As a former lifeguard myself who just wrote the book Planetary Lifeguard, Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change, it upset me how a preponderance of residents and businesses there prefer to … More Could Those Opposed to lifeguards Feel Differently Today After What Happened to Trump and our Civility?

Fly fishermen and pizza lovers know this.  So do the many who wait in sometimes long lines to see Leonardo’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.  She’s always the same, but with a facial expression that’s never monotonous.  Or watch the same Bogart and Bacall in Casablanca over and over on TCM.  Or have … More When Doth Sameness Become Monotony? For Millions of Us Mortals, Perhaps Never!

“Good morning Robowife.” “Good morning back to you, my darling.”Robowife, I will have breakfast at 7:45 AM, after which you tidy up.  I’ll be taking Robotaxi to an appointment.”“Yes, my darling.”“I’ll return 6:45 PM.  Won’t require dinner as I’ll have had a bite out.”“A bite?  Will you require medication and bandage, my darling?“No, silly.  That’s a … More In This Age of Driverless Cars and Robotaxis, Can RoboSpouses Be Far Off . . . as in This Scene?

Many of us are married to the illusion that bigger is better.  No, this is not about sex where sizes of the most noticeable anatomical parts may play an oversized role in attracting males and females to partner.  Unfortunately, too often it’s to the exclusion of the most important parts, which turn out to be … More In Valuing Awards and PR Pardners, How Much Should Size Matter?

“You and I live on “Planet Imagination,” an astute friend recently wrote to me after seeing the beginnings of the Planetary Lifeguard Award I created to “blow the whistle on climate change,” now in its early stages of production. When colorfully covered in fine material this award will be given to companies whose renewable energy … More Planetary Lifeguard Award

Almost a quarter century ago, when still only in his early seventies, my brother Don Madden would be too busy illustrating, painting and drawing up a storm at his home in upstate New York to write to me. “Sorry for the delay,” he once wrote to me in longhand on legal tablet paper. “But I’m … More Don Madden Left This Week for Studio in Heaven, But My Brother’s Cartoons Will Live on Forever

Why is B for me the most Beautiful letter in the whole alphaBet?  And why does that sweet little insect, the BEE, deliver such a Beastly sting? Yes, I awoke this morning with Bees buzzing in my mind, both the consonant B’s that bolster and beautify the beginnings of words and sentences and the now … More BEE Careful Walking Barefoot On Now Blistering Hot Beaches