Mischief night

 According to a tradition which I just invented, this blog hosts random thoughts, passing ideas and things that go bump every October 31.  As George Ade observed, "Don't try to Figure it out."

When Hamas came over the fence on October 7 armed to the teeth, why did Israelis on isolated kibbutzes have so few guns?  Maybe this is the perspective of someone in the most gun-clogged country on earth, but since all Israelis are reservists, shouldn't they keep their weapons at home?  That's what the Swiss do and nobody has attacked them for centuries.

Never thought I'd be glad of Mitch McConnell but he's standing firm for Ukraine against the new Speaker in Tongues.  Go get him, Mitch.


Speaking of speakers, this guy Johnson gives off the vibe of someone whose future will involve either a live boy or a dead hooker, as they say in Louisiana.  Mostly it's the smile.

Congratulations to the MLB owners, who have reduced the World Series to a contest between two mediocre teams who happened to do well in the post-season.  The audience for Game One was about five million.  The combined population of Texas and Arizona is 36 million.  Next year the Fall Classic will be on ESPN 4, between Cornhole and Punkin Chunkin'.

How many countries wish their biggest problem was the high price of candy corn?


It tastes as good as it looks.  According to Lewis Black, no one eats it.  It's been recycled every Halloween for a century.  (See also "fruitcake, Christmas.")

Looks like the 2034 World Cup has already been awarded to Saudi Arabia, with no competition.  The players who survived the heat in Qatar will be retired by then.

Christopher Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee, "The terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level."  Not one Republican demanded that we "defund the FBI!"

Some kids in Nassau County left a bag of treats at the home of a friend, then realized it was the wrong house.  The six-year-old went to retrieve it and the owner pointed a gun at him.  Hey, Rick Scott, this could have been more drastic than the fake Fentanyl-in-the-candy story you're telling.

A lot of Americans are in for a big surprise when they book their winter vacations in Acapulco.  The city was slammed by Category 5 Hurricane Otis while we were distracted by everything else.  Was this the beachfront hotel you had in mind?


Margie "Rothschild Space Lasers" Greene has introduced a resolution to censure Rashida Tlaib for "antisemitism."  That's it.  That's the joke.  Jake Tapper called her out, concluding, "This shit is not a game."

If you always wanted to see Trump with his hair on fire, wait until thousands of immigrants from China arrive at the southern border.  The fabled Chinese economy is in trouble and unemployment is out of control.  They must have heard about the jobs added by the BIDEN administration every month.  Unlike most Americans.


Halloween has no chance against reality.







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