This past fall has seen me go down a long, slow slide into financial oblivion. The wolf which normally sits at my door has been joined by an entire pack, and the local animal control officer added insult to injury when he cited me for allowing my “pets” to run loose with no collars and no rabies tags. Only in Manitou... Anyhow, I needed to get my hands on some cash if only to buy a little hamburger to throw at my new friends and pay for their tags, so they could freely wander off and sit...

I wander off to various places around the Net, and I’d like to report one of my experiences out there in Internet land as a cautionary tale for any of you who may be thinking of growing old.

It started innocently enough with a visit to Face Book to play Scrabble. Face book tends to baffle me and I’m not that excited about accumulating a list of 300+ “friends” or leaving a cryptic message on someone’s wall. However, you can sometimes pick up a rousing game of Scrabble...

In a stunning announcement, President Obama and House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, stated that due to a new bi-partisan compromise between the White House and Congress, many of the poor have finally begun to surrender to Homeland Security and Social Security administrators in all 50 states. A major offensive by Homeland Security is also said to be instrumental in defeating the low income forces.

Some hold-outs are still fighting on, however. In New York City’s Central Park, around...