Tag: #MaddenMischief

Ever Have a Negroni?  Now Try a ‘MadDoni’ As Ocean Spray Keeps Cap & Bottle Together

February 22, 2026

A fresh new cocktail has emerged called a MadDoni created by the master word and drink mixer himself, yours truly!  This newly christened drink’s name combines the first half of our family’s surname, the Mad part, coupled with the first name of my late brother, the genius cartoonist Don Madden. After you taste a MadDoni, … More Ever Have a Negroni?  Now Try a ‘MadDoni’ As Ocean Spray Keeps Cap & Bottle Together

Want to Make Wall Street Investing Entertaining? Match Up Fat and Skinny Stocks for Best Stand-up

February 1, 2026

Ask me what’s my political affiliation, and I’ll fire back asking you “who’s on first?  Why?  Because I stand up for stand-up!    I’ve always found there’s nothing worse than political rhetoric at a party.  Better to spring funny stories or crack jokes to enliven any party left or right like a pudgy Lou would … More Want to Make Wall Street Investing Entertaining? Match Up Fat and Skinny Stocks for Best Stand-up

Is It Right for Reich to Compare ICE To Hitler’s Brown Shirts?

January 21, 2026

Sometimes I get a kick out of our past secretary of labor under former president Bill Clinton, Robert Reich.  But most of the time these days I’d like to give him a swift kick in the you know what compartment. Sometimes the nonsense he spreads in his column is more frightening than enlightening, not to … More Is It Right for Reich to Compare ICE To Hitler’s Brown Shirts?

I’m Finding So Many Caps Separated from Bottles! Know Any Marital Counselors Who Speak Plastic?

January 14, 2026

Poor pathetic plastic bottle caps!  How many of them do you pick up each day?  I betcha I gotcha beached! Yet they’re taking over the world.  You find them everywhere, divorced from bottles, some brazenly sticking their plastic tongues up at us as we walk along otherwise clean and tidy public streets or laying there … More I’m Finding So Many Caps Separated from Bottles! Know Any Marital Counselors Who Speak Plastic?

Nothing Will Motivate More Than This In Helping America Acquire Greenland—$$$

January 8, 2026

Dear President Trump, in your proposal to acquire Greenland, try substituting the friendlier, more compelling word Money for that harsher, more threatening word you sometimes use, Military! Then I suggest offering to every citizen of Denmark the equivalent of $3,000 if their government agrees to give us this pivotably important land separating us from Russia, … More Nothing Will Motivate More Than This In Helping America Acquire Greenland—$$$

Why Do We Appreciate Someone More After He or She is Taken Away from Us?

December 28, 2025

We’ve all lost loved ones, people who’ve meant so much to us either from our personal lives or actors/film stars/entertainers we’ve long admired from Melvyn and Getta to Keaton and Hepburn, from Bob Hope to Rob Reiner. But it’s so strange that only after we’ve lost them do we realize fully how much they truly … More Why Do We Appreciate Someone More After He or She is Taken Away from Us?

Hallelujah, Flag restored

December 25, 2025

Hooray!  We got our flag back!  She was gallantly reinstalled by some brave patriot, probably a military vet like me.   She is stationed there now even more securely rising from the rock jetty just south of our magnificent Chalfonte condominium on the beach in beautiful Boca Raton.  And long may she wave, reminding us all … More Hallelujah, Flag restored

Holy Cow!  Could This be What’s in Store for Human Anatomy from Artificial Intel?

December 21, 2025

First and foremost, upon revisiting earth starting in 2057, I expect you’ll be seeing people with noticeably smaller heads along with other parts of their bodies, not just shrunken but altogether missing.  Smaller heads might even give a new name to some headwear—hatrophy. This is because just as AI is reducing the need for workers … More Holy Cow!  Could This be What’s in Store for Human Anatomy from Artificial Intel?

Could Too Much Relaxing Be Playing with Fire? Has It Become an Outdated Custom to ‘Retire?’

December 15, 2025

If you want to stay healthy, not to mention solvent, forget about that aged concept called retirement! That’s the advice strategic wealth advisor and certified financial planner Nancy Hite gives to her clients, especially those in or approaching seniorhood. As living to 100 is becoming more common, here’s what you should do, says the author … More Could Too Much Relaxing Be Playing with Fire? Has It Become an Outdated Custom to ‘Retire?’

Life on Parade!

November 27, 2025

Wait a minute, hold on!  Hear the whistle?   Time to awake, get in line! For life’s a parade in which we all play a part and it’s about to start! Yes, friendships become frayed, successes evade, even love might fade, But they’ll always be emeralds and jade, arousing serenade, pink lemonade. So, whatever you do, … More Life on Parade!