Tag Archives: covid-19

The year of ‘You can’t make this stuff up’

Posted on January 2, 2021 by oddmanout215

Asked to summarize 2020 in one phrase, humorist Dave Barry wrote “Four Seasons Total Landscaping.” Perfect. Donald Trump’s wacko coup attempt, along with the Covid-19 plague, dominated the news late in the year, and nowhere was the Trump legal team’s … Continue reading →

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Post-election reality check

Posted on November 17, 2020 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit had passed out next to the frog pond and it took me a few minutes to wake him. “Stop celebrating, Election Day’s been over for two weeks.” He stood up and looked at the denuded trees and the … Continue reading →

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Uh-oh, a blue mirage!

Posted on November 5, 2020 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was doubled over laughing at me for having thought the 2020 elections might generate a wave that would sweep Democrats to victory even in some former Confederate states that were, according to the pollsters, trending blue. “Hahaha, you … Continue reading →

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Only a blue wave can detox the U.S. Senate

Posted on November 2, 2020 by oddmanout215

Tomorrow is Election Day, but Swamp Rabbit and I are still arguing. Will a blue wave crash down on the Orange Contagion? Will the Democratic victory be large enough to discourage Trump from contesting it? Large enough to turn the … Continue reading →

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The spookiest Halloween ever

Posted on October 25, 2020 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit’s parole office Victor Cortez dropped by yesterday at my shack in the Tinicum swamp while the rabbit and I were critiquing Donald Trump’s performance at his final debate with Joe Biden. “I’m the least racist person in this … Continue reading →

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A new meaning for ‘cancel culture’

Posted on July 19, 2020 by oddmanout215

‘Last week I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.’ I found Swamp Rabbit near my shack, at the frog pond, drinking a beer. “There’s no easy way to say this,” I said. “Philadelphia is closing. I think we’ve become … Continue reading →

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Antifa is coming, call out the militia!

Posted on July 9, 2020 by oddmanout215

Many of us wondered why the infection rates for Covid-19 in this country continued climbing through the Fourth of July weekend and beyond, even though rates in most other developed countries were way down. The lead paragraphs from a news … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 and the confederacy of dunces

Posted on July 2, 2020 by oddmanout215

You’ve got a lot of people in [the media] who wax poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York. Well, hell, we’re eight weeks away from that and it hasn’t happened… People … Continue reading →

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Would you like more curfew with your lockdown?

Posted on June 2, 2020 by oddmanout215

NBCPHILADELPHIA I was jawing with Swamp Rabbit when my phone started making those strange emergency alert noises. “Only essential personnel allowed outside,” the text read. WTF? We figured a tornado was coming, or maybe a nuclear attack. In fact, the … Continue reading →

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Betting on a sure thing (covid-19)

Posted on May 22, 2020 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit’s parole officer Victor Cortez asked me if I wanted to bet against his bet that covid-19 deaths in the U.S. would hit 100,000 by Memorial Day. (The death count as of today was about 95,000.) “That’s tasteless,” I … Continue reading →

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