Contraries of Society
By David Glenn Cox The days are long in uncertainty the nights restless in calamity. Over fifty billon dollars was due in rent yesterday, and many didn’t have it. A…
A Possession of the World
By David Glenn Cox The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank opened its doors yesterday to a mile-long line of cars. Offering fifty pounds of food, no questions asked. Note to…
The New Walter Mitty
By David Glenn Cox An arrest warrant has been issued for the pastor of a Florida Mega Church for holding services during the quarantine. The pastor claimed his church had…
Gimme Some Truth
By David Glenn Cox This thing dwarfs us, blunts us and blinds us. The future once so clear is now obscured, one more burden to carry in our backpacks, one…
Are You Too Good for Locusts Now God?
By David Glenn Cox It’s a new world Golda, where all that is, is not and all that is not is. The orange ape throws feces between the cell bars…
!!!Friday Funk!!! 3/27/20
You know you’ve made it in Rock and Roll when you only need one name. Elvis, Jimi and Janice. Janice Joplin was an explosive performer. She could rip on a…
A Hobo’s Fatalism
By David Glenn Cox It’s the not knowing isn’t it? The suspense fueled anxiety magnified by social distancing. When we need each other the most we must be apart. Making…
Riding the Government Gravy Train
By David Glenn Cox Up on the hill four Republicans are balking at the stimulus package because they say unemployment benefits are too generous. Only people who have never struggled…
Living in Metropolis
By David Glenn Cox I guess we now have our answer to one of life’s eternal questions. Would Republicans actually sell their parents if it meant financial rewards? Apparently, the…
The Fingerprint of Failure
By David Glenn Cox Many years ago, I quit smoking cold turkey. As my tensions rose and my body cried out for a nicotine fix the only thing, I could…
Beneath Pitifulness
By David Glenn Cox I’ve seen a lot of rumors flying, in one the Democrats were opposed to sending cash to strapped Americans. Another rumor said, they weren’t going to…
Bad Science Fiction
By David Glenn Cox It was like a bad science fiction movie. I had to scrap ice and snow off my windshield frozen for two days. Then drive through a…
You’re a Terrible Cheeto
By David Glenn Cox The orange one was orange red, a two-tone President calling for unity as he balls out a reporter for asking a softball question he didn’t like.…
Saving Private Cheeto
By David Glenn Cox The theme of today’s White House Press briefing is “Changing the subject.” Angry like a man with Jalapeno in his hemorrhoid cream. The Orange one makes…
A Wartime Cheeto
By David Glenn Cox Step out the front door like a ghostInto the fog where no one notices theContrast of white on white. – Counting Crows A canvas of white…
Welcome to Cheetonomics
By David Glenn Cox In 1933, Adolph Hitler is alleged to have said, “In twelve years you won’t recognize Berlin. “So, when George of the Bungle says, “You wait, we’re…
Revolution for $100 Alex
By David Glenn Cox The markets bleed off waiting on leadership. Corporate America bleeds off waiting for leadership and America bleeds off waiting for bleeding leadership. “True they have tried,…
“We’re on Our Own Out Here”
By David Glenn Cox So as the world goes dark a Federal judge blocks the Trump Administration’s plans to throw 700,000 people off of the SNAP program. Based primarily around…
A Monkey Too Old to Dance
By David Glenn Cox Who wants to talk about the Corona virus? Yeah, me neither. Anxiety phasers on stun. Can you believe it? Store shelves empty of toilet paper in…
First Goes the Love
By David Glenn Cox First goes the love, then goes the money. The stock crisis moves to the banking industry. Of course, it was only a matter of time wasn’t…
Corporal Bone Spurs
By David Glenn Cox In the long and storied history of the United States in moments of crisis the has President always stepped into the gap to reassure the American…
The Kingfish
By David Glenn Cox How often the name of Jesus Christ is commonly bandied about, and for a fictional or faith-based character, I suppose that’s all right. I mean, well,…
By the Sword
By David Glenn Cox If I could play music right now it would be wipeout by the Safaris. Stock futures down the limit Monday morning. Across the globe stocks are…
The Days of Push Comes to Shove
By David Glenn Cox Mark Twain wrote about a minister who during the first shock of the San Francisco earthquake declared the Devil couldn’t shake him from his pulpit. Upon…
Handguns and Whiskey
By David Glenn Cox The world holds its breath over the corona virus. The irony, as the orange ape plays on his tire swing. In retrospect, all the things he’s…
The Iranian Hiker’s Guide
By David Glenn Cox During World War II my father was a flight engineer on a US Navy blimp. The Navy used blimps because they could carry radar and stay…
Just One Flush
By David Glenn Cox The Federal Reserve today shot their bolt and for their efforts…made it worse. Imagine you’re on an ocean liner and in the middle of the night…
Sick Day
By David Glenn Cox After the debacle of 2008 there were many with 20/20 hindsight. But this like something out of a cheesy science fiction movie, like the ones you…
Save the Tiger
By David Glenn Cox Well, at least some questions are finally answered. About Aliens I mean, we went about it the wrong way, but I feel the answer is definitive.…
Take a Chance or Disaster
By David Glenn Cox The Democratic Party is an instrument of the electorate. It has no legitimate opinions and preferences of its own other than what we the people prefer;…
!!! Friday Funk !!! – 02/28/20
Once upon a time there was a three-piece band from Canada. They couldn’t get any airplay. In a tough rust belt city this song resonated at WMMS and became break…
Just Another Day in America
By David Glenn Cox It is important when thinking about the United States Supreme Court to remember its long and storied history of getting it wrong. Separate but equal, child…
Dirty Words
By David Glenn Cox We live in our little American world with our little American values and we sit on a mountain of prosperity preaching to the poor about climbing…
What We Could Have
By David Glenn Cox Tomorrow doesn’t really exist. It is an imaginary place we create in our minds and then plan to build. On the night of April 15, the…
Vote for Monty Bloomberg
By David Glenn Cox When the first Simpson’s episode aired back in 1989, I thought, “This will never last.” The satire is too sharp the Bible thumpers and the Blue…
The Kids are All Right
By David Glenn Cox I’m the youngest in my family thirteen years between my oldest sibling and I. My father was also the youngest with twenty-two years difference between his…
!!! Friday Funk – 02/21/20 !!!
Emerson Lake & Palmer By David Glenn Cox At 15 Emerson Lake & Palmer were it for me. I was amazed by the musical prowess and it opened my eyes…
The Baby Box
By David Glenn Cox Let’s take a trip in the way back machine to Neolithic times. Those were much simpler times back then. Hunting and gathering and keeping the cave…
Be Prepared
By David Glenn Cox Years ago, when I was in radio school Mr. Marconi was about to give a lecture on Mr. Tesla or was it the other way around?…
Overthrowing Idols
By David Glenn Cox We cannot measure the dimensions of the past with the rulers of today. In 1920, Henry Ford was voted as the third most important person in…
The Manchurian Candidate
Yogi Berra said it, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” That feeling that we’ve all been here before and many didn’t learn their lesson and didn’t do their homework.…
This Solidarity Thing
By David Glenn Cox Take a trip with me to 1932. It’s election night and Herbert Hoover received a telegram in the White House which read, “Vote Roosevelt and make…
An Army is Coming
By David Glenn Cox Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me. The big orange fuhrer struggles at his childish name calling. Thrashing about after…
Watch the Crowds
I was recently on Facecrook on a Bernie Sanders page. And someone (no names please) was advocating for “Voting your conscience.” Generally, I couldn’t agree more. However, these are troubled…
FDR was a Liberal Democrat
By David Glenn Cox FDR was a Liberal Democrat, once considered a traitor to his class he was in fact its salvation. He saved the United States from a possible…
The Private Economy
By David Glenn Cox In the last century Henry Ford became the richest man in the world by building automobiles. He took a couple of hundred dollars in parts and…
!! FRIDAY FUNK 2/7/2020 !!
WAR © 2020 MJ Ostrander With the political train wreck many of us had this week, a week that is ending for me with a snowstorm making the mountains invisible,…
Part of the Plan
I find the failure of the Iowa voting ap somewhat refreshing. You see? It’s not me after all. All the stupid aps I’ve downloaded that didn’t work right or don’t…
Will Anything Go Right This Week?
© 2020, MJ Ostrander How are we all doing out there? Feeling the strain of the week? Did your heart miss a beat the night of the Iowa Caucus too? …
