RIPTIDE

Alandrome: Hack Attack

U. S. State Department palindrome lovers warn the next cyber attack could target Pyongyang's national airline: "Era web: Aero Korea beware!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Party Like It's 5775!

L'shana Tova! As of Rosh Hashanah on September 25, it is the year 5775! Our first palindrome year since 2002 and 1991! And so it will be a good year any way we look at it.

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Don't Go There

This palindrome lover can report the Secret Service has taken action to ensure an intruder never again runs across the White House lawn:
 
     "Mr. Alan Wald eyed lawn alarm."

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Don "The Voice" Pardo, R.I.P.

Saturday Night Live announcer Don Pardo, who died August 18, was not only a great announcer but also a palindrome lover.

"Pardo: O, God, I do good rap!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: What Is a Life Worth?

Pacifica palindrome lovers are sad to learn that the Ferguson, Missouri police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown may have been over his theft of a box of cheap cigars: "Cigar. Too tragic."

Alan Wald

Linda Mar Boulevard Repaving Under Way

City Press Release

With repaving of Linda Mar Boulevard under way, Pacifica Palindrome lovers cry out:
 
     "Rev a Pacifica paver!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Libre Erbil!

"Libre Erbil!" shout palindrome lovers following today's U.S. military strike against Islamist militants surrounding Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital in Iraq.

Alan Wald

Cast Away @ Rockaway Beach: Lost Bag of Lutefisk?

During the Fourth of July excitement, someone left a red Stanford-hat-style backpack with the name Lars on it at the ocean end of Rockaway Beach Avenue. When Alan Wald read about this on Next Door, he posted a comment that the lost bag might belong to a Viking sailor.

What It Is

When Bill Clinton said, "It depends on what the meaning of is is," who knew that he was referring to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

And now President Obama suggests we partner with Iran to resolve the crisis in Iraq. Pacifica palindrome lovers say we should stay away from both of those arid places: 

"Damn! Arid Iraq. Arid Iran. Mad!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: The Cranky, Contagious Palindromedary

Pacifica palindrome lovers have confirmed this breed of camel—the palindromedary—as the source of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Notice how ornery it looks; it has no excretory tract.
Alan Wald

Alandrome: Bad Attitude

As President Barack Obama calls for unified action against Boko Haram, the Islamist group spreading terror throughout Nigeria, a palindrome-loving member of the group taunts the president:
 
     "OK, Obama, I am a Boko."

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Sterling Example of Racism

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's denials of bigotry fall on palindrome lovers' deaf ears:

  "Don (one racist): it's 'I care!' No nod."

Alan Wald

Luck or Skill: Which One Will Help Find the Missing Plane?

Creative juxtaposition of issues by our Riptide palindromist Alan Wald:
 
"I read today that crowdsourcing is being used to pore over the millions of large-scale satellite images that cover the vast Indian Ocean, and it occurs to me that the chance of finding MH370 debris in one of those images is about the same as winning the Mega Millions lottery. So why not give the lottery and its players a useful purpose: Instead of generating random numbers, let's reprogram lottery machines to dispense random large-scale satellite images from the Indian Ocean? Find the debris -- win the jackpot."

Alandrome: 21st Century's Amelia Earhart Mystery

Once again, palindrome-loving searchers flying over the Indian Ocean report that objects spotted today are unrelated to missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370:

      "Sir: bed, tons of UFOs -- not debris."

Alan Wald

Alandrome: From Russia With Love

With Crimea voting to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, palindrome-loving Russians there are toasting at a feast of Russian yak and vodka:

"Rise to vodka, yak. Do vote, sir!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Pi in the Sky 3/14

To commemorate "Pi (3.14...) Day" on March 14 (3/14), a Pacifica palindrome-loving chef prepared an exotic chowder (or distinctive surf-and-turf) recipe:

"I pot cod, nag, and octo-pi."

Alan Wald  

Alandrome: Putin on the Ritz

With his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin's epitaph has been written, say palindrome lovers:

"Putin: Evil did I dwell; lewd I did liven it up!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: Hail to the Chief

With Pacifica's soon-to-retire Police Chief Jim Tasa sure to be given a good-bye party in his honor, ask Pacifica palindrome lovers where they'll be that evening, and of course they'll reply, "At a Tasa ta-ta!"

Alan Wald

Alandrome: No Love Lost in Palestine for the Late Ariel Sharon

It is reported that Palestinians in Gaza marked the death of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, calling him a criminal and rejoicing. Pacifica palindrome lovers lament: "Sharon, to Gaza, got no 'rahs."

Alan Wald

(Posted by John Maybury, Pacifica Riptide, Pacifica, California)