Yesterday I went to Whole Foods. I don’t live very close to one. But not too very far away, either. Perhaps just right (in the Goldilocks sense), because any closer and I’d be a lot poorer and a lot fatter, … Continue reading →
All of a sudden, apropos of nothing, my Google page shows the word “Yahoo” (very light gray) in the search bar. When I type in something and start a search, instead of using Google it defaults to Yahoo. It’s the … Continue reading →
I’ve got a new post up at PJ’s Lifestyle section. The topic: driving the Model T versus driving the cars of today. Not about politics at all. Okay, maybe just a little.
Continue reading →…after all these years. The Russians do so like their vodka: Today, according to the World Health Organization, one in five men in the Russia Federation die due to alcohol-related causes, compared with 6.2 percent of all men globally. In … Continue reading →
What’s been going on this summer with fruit? Has anyone else noticed that it hasn’t been as good as usual? Mushy peaches cleverly masquerading as firm ones. Same for plums. And somewhat bland and tasteless, too. It’s a pain in … Continue reading →
The other day I traveled by airplane, and I was pulled out of line for special consideration. Actually, there wasn’t all that much of a line; it was Saturday night, and the airport was relatively quiet. But I was pulled … Continue reading →
Labor Day is the bookend on the opposite end of summer from its holiday beginning, Memorial Day. July Fourth is summer’s early peak, with the promise of long light-filled days ahead. But Labor Day is summer’s last gasp, the moment … Continue reading →
Here’s a photo of Wilt Chamberlain in fourth grade, in 1945. It’s pretty easy to spot him in the crowd: The author writes: [Chamberlain’s] almost twice the size of some of his classmates in this photo (see the girl in … Continue reading →
When I was a child my family used to visit a large chicken farm owned by some relatives. It was a commercial operation with enormous rooms the size of football fields (or so it seemed to me at the time) … Continue reading →
I got a little note from Yahoo email today saying: As part of our continuing effort to provide you with a wonderful Yahoo! Mail experience, we want to make sure the mail you send gets to the friends, family or … Continue reading →
……to articles like this one is: what about political changers like me? How do you explain us? Political preferences seem to come packaged with a whole set of other kinds of tastes, with liberals and conservatives having separate preferences when … Continue reading →
I don’t mind slow news days like today has been (so far, anyway). In fact, I rather like them. I like not having to write about Obama’s latest outrage, or the press’s latest whitewash of Obama’s latest outrage, or the … Continue reading →