PEN-PRICKS

• Colorado faced a freak summer snowstorm after last week’s record-setting heat wave that sent temperatures in the Rockies to triple digits. The cold front swept across the country’s midsection. In Oklahoma City, the temperature went from 90 to 55 like it just saw a Highway Patrolman.

• Met Life published a table predicting that Baby Boomers will have the longest life span of any generation in history to date. It doesn’t surprise me. The reason that Baby Boomers have such a long life expectancy is that when we were young, alcohol and drugs and tobacco were good for you.

• President Trump said soldiers love him but the Pentagon brass dislikes him because he keeps bringing troops home and won’t attack anybody. It hardly feels like America. Donald Trump is the only president in my lifetime who hasn’t started a war, unless you include the Women of the View.

• Senate Republicans failed to get the 60 votes they needed to pass their $500 billion dollar pandemic relief bill. This was the second time in a month that lawmakers on Capitol Hill were unable to pass corona relief. Nancy Pelosi says it’s being blocked by her hair stylist.

• The Department of Wildlife launched a highway safety campaign designed to protect deer and mountain lions and wolves from being killed on the road. West Virginia now leads the nation in the number of deer struck by vehicles. It’s been like this ever since WalMart stopped selling bullets.