I can help with that — In a world filled with brightly colored, throw-away plastic garbage this one stopped me in my tracks. Who is the intended buyer of butter sculptures? Am I sure I want to even ask? Maybe this is just a way for Keller’s Creamery to stay afloat? Oh, come on, they just…

What’s that about wearing the world like a loose garment? — Banks are failing including the one that holds the mortgage to the building I’ve lived in since 2002. Biden has opened the Arctic for drilling (“And by the way, no more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period.”). …

El Quijote ain’t what it used to be — Without my knowledge or permission I’ve turned into That Person. Sad to say but true. I’m the one who now has to slap her mouth shut before launching into all the ways that New York isn’t New York anymore. And more often than I care to admit, that slapping doesn’t…

And I really enjoy a good bowl of borscht, so go pound sand — Remember “Freedom Fries”? How about “Cheese-eating, Surrender Monkeys”? It takes a remarkably light nudge to get people to line up and parrot whatever The Money wants parroted. …

Wait until China starts slapping sanctions onto this country! — Face it, the United States of America is governed by morons. Aggressive, bullying, inept morons. These are the geniuses who have managed to mire us in a proxy war with a country that has more nukes than we do (nice work, Biden, et al.) …

Annette is totally the woman for the job — We heard her before we saw her. The driver re-opened the door and she bounded onto the bus. I know Annette from around the neighborhood to say hi to and see how things are going. No idea where she lives. I do know I have seen more than one unlucky…

Healthy, grounded, intelligent people won’t make anyone rich — So you’re aching to do something really radical? Something that’ll really stick it to the man? Make your mark and remind the corporate Matrix exactly who is in charge? Never eat another Twinkie. Or Big Mac. Or virtually anything associated with Nestle, Pepsico, Dannon, Unilever, General Mills, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s…

Is anyone wondering who to thank for Flaco’s freedom? — The bird has its own Wikipedia page and crowds of adoring fans who traipse from one end of Central Park to the other in hopes of seeing their hero. Flaco, the newest sensation, in a city that regurgitates sensationalism like the owl does rats’ bones and tails. A Eurasian eagle-owl…

I don’t think I know how to live without capitalism — Remember me? Here, let me pull my soapbox and see if that jogs any memories. Yeah, that’s me, railing against the violence and waste and absurdity of capitalism from atop my soapbox on various corners. …