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LAST-MINUTE COSTUME IDEAS

  • If you’re a parent, just accentuate the bags under your eyes and go as a zombie.
  • Stick your head in the sand and tell everyone you’re an optimist.
  • Put on white pants, a white shirt, and white shoes, then jump in the shower and go as the melting polar ice caps.
  • Grab your resume, put on a suit and tie and be one of the millions looking for work. (And if you actually are one of the millions looking for work, do all of the above, but also smile and tell everyone you’re the 1 in 500 who applied for a job and actually got hired.)
  • Grab a coin, a ouija board, an astrology chart and some of those bones mystics in movies throw to predict the future and tell everyone you’re an economist.
  • Write “Healthcare Debate” on your shirt, then stab yourself with a fork and say you’re done. (But first make sure the nearest emergency room is on your list of approved providers, you have plenty of money to make your co-pay, and that your health insurance company won’t decline coverage because your stab wound is a pre-existing condition.)
  • Stay home and hide in the attic, then when people ask you what you did for Halloween you can tell them you went as the balloon boy.
  • Smile, breath a deep sigh of relief, and be the parent of a kid who’s going to a Halloween party at somebody else’s house.

CNN HATES HALLOWEEN

Halloween is supposed to be the one night of the year you can let your kids eat too much candy without feeling guilty about it, which makes an in-depth article like this one on CNN.com not only depressing, but irresponsible, mean-spirited and wholly inappropriate.

Boo-hiss, CNN.

Next time have the courtesy to run this after Halloween is over.

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