The other day a friend stopped by and commented that her grandson was a real whiner.

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It’s about 3 AM now when I’m writing this piece because I can’t sleep.
It all started about 1:30AM when I mistakenly turned over during a sound sleep.
My wife said to me, “did you hear that?”
“Did I hear what?”
“That beep.”
“What beep?”
“Listen.”

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Ossie the Osprey flew into an island of mangroves in Lemon Bay and settled down alongside Woody the Wood Stork.
“Hey, Ossie what have you been up to?”
“Oh, I’ve just been flying around trying to get away from the old lady.”
“Where you hanging out these days?”
“Oh, we’re down at the Storknest on Manasota Key.”

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As you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy Sunday reading a New York Times story with the headline, “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop.”

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I always wondered where men’s sexual drive and financial acumen was located.
Now I know, as a result of a new study involving some 15 heterosexual young men at Stanford University. 
I always thought it was a lot lower in the male anatomy, but it’s actually located in the sex and money hub, the V-shaped nucleus accumbens, which sits [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s making a lot about taking a telephone call at 3 AM and I didn’t even know it was an issue in this Presidential campaign.

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“Good Morning Hillary.  Good night’s sleep?
“As a matter of fact Bill, I had a rather bad dream.”
“What was that?”
“Oh, I didn’t get the entitlement vote that I expected in this race for the presidential nomination, you know as the way in which we discussed it in college.”
“I mean, I thought we set the country’s perception for the fact [...]

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From the White House to the Governor’s houses across this land, from the Senate to the Congress there seems to be one consistent item on the agenda of our politicians — sex — and I for one, think we should request our next president be celibate.

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On a park bench in South Beach:  “Hey Herbie, how are you?”  “Oh, I’m fine Moshe, how are you?”  ”Well I’ve been thinking of all the times we’ve been meeting like this here, we have seen this place come and go and come and go and it’s back again.”  “Yeh, so what?
“Well, Herbie, I was [...]

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Florida gets more than its share of lighting hits annually and doesn’t really need anymore, but the Democratic Party seems to select this state for unwarranted election year lighting bolts that seem to play a role in the selection of our next president.

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