2020 - the mildewy wet-blanket of years

Since 2020 has proven to be about as funny as a pratfall that lands in an actual tiger trap, I’ve felt a little flinchy about humor, like my timing is off just a bit and I can’t quite be confident whether my joke or my whole topic is a helium balloon or one of those doggy doo-doo bags.

It seems my weird/funny news sources are having that trouble as well.

Take the murder hornets for example. I scoured my weird and funny news sources for some fodder for today’s column and saw lots of animal kingdom headlines, including this one from the Associated Press: “First ‘murder hornet’ nest in U.S. found...