Articles by Dennis E. Powell

Dennis E. Powell is crackpot-at-large at Open for Business. Powell was a reporter in New York and elsewhere before moving to Ohio, where he has (mostly) recovered. You can reach him at dep@drippingwithirony.com.

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Apr 16, 2025

The Plastic Pandemic

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 11:23 PM

It was interesting to note over the last few days the noise being made by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that he’s going to put to the test every crackpot notion he’s ever had or heard of to bring an end to the “epidemic” of autism.

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Apr 08, 2025

Under Water

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 5:51 PM

If you live anywhere there is weather, you should probably have a weather radio. This is a bespoke device that renders the weather forecast, if that interests you, at the push of a button. But its real purpose is to make alarming noise when bad weather approaches, so that you might spend your final minutes lamenting that you have no basement. We had four days of, first, terrible storms then endless rain beginning a week ago tonight.

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Apr 02, 2025

Crunchy Mothman

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 10:04 PM

It’s a mystery. Yesterday, as I do from time to time, I stopped in at Coonskin Crossing, the country gas station and convenience store in Amesville. Looking around and as always wondering what it was about a Chinese virus that doubled the price of potato chips, I saw something I didn’t expect.

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Mar 26, 2025

Smart Phones, Stupid People

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 2:55 PM

If it were a situation comedy — “The Office” comes to mind — there would be delight and hilarity in watching the now-faded orange man and the clown car holding his alleged national security officials zooming around in search of an excuse for their breathtaking incompetence.

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Mar 19, 2025

A Justified Target for an Angry President

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 1:55 PM

If the president of the United States could pry himself away from betraying the country’s friends for a while, I have a project that could actually do the country some good, bring in some cash, give citizens a reason to be happy with him, and let him give useful flight to his rage.

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Mar 12, 2025

Fox Trump Channel

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 1:47 PM
Let me begin with an assertion that I think is undeniable: Were it not for Fox News Channel, particularly its simpering morning show, Donald Trump would never have been president.
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Mar 05, 2025

Comrade Trump

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 8:43 PM

It suddenly made terrible, nauseating sense. Dan Henninger, the calm and perceptive editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal, appeared Saturday on the Journal Editorial Report on Fox News Channel, discussing Friday’s Oval Office bullying of the president of Ukraine by Donald Trump and his pudgy verbal thumb-breaker, J.D. Vance.

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Feb 26, 2025

But Is It Art?

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 10:20 PM

Let us begin by establishing that Marie-chan is the cutest cat ever. There is no escaping it. A little white ball of fluff with a face that suggests that she thinks she is much bigger and more fierce than she actually is, when you see her you want to look in back to find out if there is a key where you can wind her up.

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Feb 19, 2025

Threads

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 11:12 PM

Well, now I’ve done it. When a person mentions genealogy he becomes very popular all of a sudden, as if there’s some secret knowledge he possesses that if divulged will loose the keys to the kingdom. There really is no such knowledge, just a few tricks that anyone can employ. What prevents people who are interested from diving in may be the thought that it can’t be that easy.

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Feb 12, 2025

Josiah Cummings's Book

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 9:54 PM

Do all families have a deep corporate interest in genealogy? I hope so, because it is fascinating and satisfying. The subject swoops in unannounced and occupies my days every few years. Though I’m by no means an expert, I think I’m a relatively skilled dilettante and have a long, strangely constructed family tree to prove it.

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