Here's a heart-warming story for a Monday: Robin Alex of Albuquerque received word that her cat Charles, was safe and sound after wandering 1300 miles from New Mexico to Chicago. Charles was discovered at Wrigley Field during a Cubs game. I don't know how he stood out in the crowd. Everyone at the Cubs game was making cat calls.
Well, last week on April 15, supporters of the Tea Party staged a Tax Day protest. Did you notice they haven't scheduled a Tax Refund Day protest?
If you haven't mailed in your Census 2010 form, you'll be paid a visit by a census taker and that will cost the government $56 a household. Here's an idea: How about paying out 56 bucks to those of us who already sent in the form and fining those who didn't?
A stretch of Interstate 44 near St. Louis has been paved with asphalt made from recycled hog manure. Now the Rams football team isn't the only thing in St. Louis that stinks.
Can you imagine paving your driveway with pig manure? When your Jewish friends came over, they'd have to park in the street.
Last week, in Connecticut, a runaway excavator owned by a construction company, knocked over trees, flattened a camper and finally smashed into a house. Wow! I didn't even know Toyota made an excavator.
About Me
- Wendel Potter
- My writing career took off in 1979 and it continues to roll. I've written comedy for Joan Rivers, Jay Leno, Rodney Dangerfield, and the Yakov Smirnoff Show. I was a weekly columnist for a Nebraska newspaper for 10 years. Several of my short stories have been published in a national magazine, Woman's World. This blog is a return to old columns dear to my heart and new essays that are currently ideas on a close horizon. I hope we can become friends.
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