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 →
…is Beverly Bivens. I’d never heard her name, either. And although I remember the music of her group We Five very well, I hadn’t thought of it or them for years. A college friend of mine had had their LP, … Continue reading →
Quite a few commenters questioned my decision in this post to assume that a certain liberal named Steven Rattner, former counsel to Obama’s Treasury Department, has good intentions. Here’s what I wrote in that post: If you believe Rattner to … Continue reading →
Yesterday I went to the eye doctor for my annual exam. All went well, fortunately. But the experience reminded me that those questions the eye doc asks when he makes you don those weirdo glasses drive me nuts: “Which is … Continue reading →
I keep forgetting to sell things. But every now and then I remember: money! Amazon! And not just at Christmastime. After all, people have birthdays and stuff like that all year round. So why not get a present or two … Continue reading →