The U.S. administration has had it with some of Mexico’s drug cartels—just some.

I mean, can you blame it? Political leaders have tried to model good business practices on and off for several years recently.

But some cartel misbehavior has remained unpleasant, and they may be enriching uranium.

So, the answer?

A few weeks back, this newspaper thoughtfully added a half-page article explaining a new driving license law aimed at the growing number of drivers (we still call them that) at Lakeside over age 75.   

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore --

While I nodded, nearly napping,

Suddenly I was being eaten alive by a swarm of ants.

This is all true. Tiny, tiny ants no larger than electrons started eating my foot.It was a horror show. So horrible that it is fitting to steal the words from Edgar Allan Poe to set the stage. Poe, as you all know, wrote “The Raven,” a tragicpoem that concludes with the raven eating Poe’s foot. (At least I think that’s how it ends. Poe never ends anything with big laughs.)

As the trade war heats up in North America and buying stalls because of price hikes, it’s time for advertisers and marketers to step in and blow their smoke.

I don’t have Alexa. Or Siri. Or whoever the latest glad-to-be-of-use nobody is. Don’t use Facebook or Instagram or X accounts.

Often, folks are driven to read reviews of restaurants before trying them out. But many reviews are too polite and sanitized and consequently insignificant as advice, such as water being served without asking is in bold type as a special treat.