When I need a chuckle, I can usually find it in one of several places: a British sitcom; whatever Karoline Leavitt said in the day’s White House press briefing; or the writings of Ogden Nash, Erma Bombeck, or British author and journalist Ambrose Bierce.

Bierce won the coin toss today, for his combination of irony, literacy, and totally irreverent humor. For your amusement (I hope), I give you his definition of “Man”:

“MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.”

– Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary

Clearly, Bierce is on my list of people from the past I would hope some day to meet in Heaven.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/19/26