op-ed calumnist

An editorial writer engaged in calumny - peddling false and malicious statements about someone, with the intent to inflict damage.

Under a tight deadline, needing a really juicy bit of character assassination, the op-ed calumnist linked Biden to Pizzagate.

by Monkey's Dad October 01, 2020

Who Cooks for You?

Song of the Barred Owl, by consensus of the ornithological community. Who Cooks for You? Who Cooks for Yooooou-All?, in two groups of four.

The owls were singing to each other, high in the spruce trees, and it always made them smile. Who Cooks for You? Who-Cooks-for-Yooooo-All? One night, they went outside with his guitar and he played it back to them.

by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2023

becoming real

Moving from a general concept to the inescapably specific.

Seeing a face he knew on the front page of The Times, the first nurse in New York to die of the virus, it was becoming real, no longer a statistic, and other faces would follow.

by Monkey's Dad March 27, 2020

Sortaday and Someday

The days of the weekend during Covid, when time is disordered.

Sorry, not totally sure but I think I'm busy Sortaday and Someday, taking the kids shopping for 'school clothes'. ... The mall?? You're kidding, right? eBay.

by Monkey's Dad August 26, 2020

Bland Finale

Dashed expectations. A bit of a letdown.

The audience had been anticipating Clapton would close the concert with a soaring rendition of his number one megahit, not the bland finale of Layla performed on solo ukulele and a kazoo.

by Monkey's Dad February 27, 2020

teriorate

Strengthen, grow, become stable and whole.

With terioration and teriorating, the opposite of deteriorate, deterioration, deteriorating, words which exist to express a negative, with no positive correlative.

After recent years of watching the country and its spirit deteriorate, many Americans held to the hope that under new leadership it would begin to teriorate.

by Monkey's Dad August 25, 2020

Covocaust Denial

The insistence, as the death-rate mounts, that the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax.

The hysteria was ridiculous, as every right-thinking person knew. The so-called 'coronavirus' was just the ordinary flu, had so far killed a tiny handful of people and was exaggerated in a liberal attempt at impeachment part 2. Anyone who called his truth-telling Covocaust Denial was a sore loser. Ask Rush.

by Monkey's Dad April 04, 2020