Skunky’s Monkey House

This monkey is finally settling in and beginning to enjoy the island life. About two months ago I made a big change in my life. I’ve packed up my essentials, put my house up for sale and moved to the Virgin Islands. I started thinking and then planning about a year ago and when the [...]

The world lost one of the great comedians this week with the death of George Carlin. There was a time in my youth when I could have recited every line from his AM/FM album, nearly wearing out the vinyl from playing so much.

This week we have a doozy. The story comes out of Tampa, Florida and involves the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office. Surveillance footage from January 29 shows deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation. [...]

I’ve recently been bothered by the really poor headlines and glaring typos on major news outlets web sites. I mean, who writes headlines like “Candidate X wins, what does that mean?”. It means he got the majority of the vote you idiot! I realize that wasn’t the intention of the question, but it’s still a [...]

He’s baaaaack! No, not me, everyone’s favorite racist asshat, the exalted, high and mighty Reverend Al Sharpton. This past weekend at a golf tournanament in Hawaii, a commentator made a poor judgement call and used the L word while talking about Tiger Woods. No, no, no, not that L word. I mean, Tiger’s wife is [...]