The cop stop that wasn’t
The other day while driving in a moderate-sized town, I glanced down to look at my cell phone GPS for a quick moment. Next thing I knew, I saw a police car in back of me turn on its blue … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
Lawsuit: free speech in academia
The University of Michigan has a comprehensive anti-free-speech policy. Oh, the school doesn’t call it that. They say it’s: …a disciplinary code that prohibits “harassment” and “bullying,” and increases the penalties if such actions are motivated by “bias.”…Michigan defines harassment … Continue reading →
“Re-imagining” the classics
“Re-imagining” works of art that have withstood the test of time is a trend, one I encountered last night when I attended this performance of the full opera “Hansel and Gretel” at the Yale School of Music. I’ve written about … Continue reading →
Millennials discover mid-level cities
It doesn’t surprise me. I never wanted to live in New York, although I grew up there and most of the people I knew wanted to stay there the rest of their lives—and have done so. Not me. I always … Continue reading →
Not your father’s Boy Scouts
A new name, a new policy: “Scouts BSA”: The parent organization will remain the Boy Scouts of America, and the Cub Scouts ”” its program for 7- to 10-year-olds ”” will keep its title as well. But the Boy Scouts … Continue reading →
On those bags of chopped, washed, mixed lettuce
I’m so old I can remember when you had to wash and dry lettuce by hand. What a pain in the neck that was. Then came a fabulous invention: the salad spinner. Salad spinners may seem pretty primitive to you … Continue reading →
When we had to wait
While taking a walk the other day in a suburban area, I passed a yard with a tire swing tied to a large tree branch. Into my head popped a song lyric that goes like this: Life was just a … Continue reading →
Pro-Trump vs. Never-Trump blogging
Ace has a fascinating piece about the decisions bloggers and other pundits on the right have had to make in the era of Trump. Fascinating to me, anyway. He writes: Some time ago I faced the choice of doing an … Continue reading →
My bookmark travails
I’m a bookmark hoarder. Not actual bookmarks, the decorative kind you place in actual books. I only have a few of those. No, I’m talking about favorite websites I mark under “bookmarks” on whatever browser I might be using. On … Continue reading →
Food fashions
[NOTE: I noticed this amusing comment from “Fractal Rabbit” in the pasta-cooking thread: Sadly, I’d eat a spaghetti sandwich everyday if I could get away with it. That is, if my blood sugar could get away with it. Trying to … Continue reading →
Nine ways you’re cooking pasta wrong
Nine ways? That’s a lot of ways. I figured I was committing all nine errors. But it turns out that I’m only committing one: using too small a pot. And I was already well aware that I often use too … Continue reading →
Me and TurboTax, TurboTax and me
Every year around this time I’m busy with my taxes. I like to joke that I may just be the person in the US with the highest ratio of tax complexity to income, because although I don’t make much money … Continue reading →