Paul certainly does seem to be…
…the marrying kind. The triumph of hope over experience. Although this is his first brunette. Let’s hear it for brunettes!
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My smart phone has outsmarted me
I’ve had a smart phone for about a month. I have no doubt it’s highly intelligent. It can get online in an instant, locate me in time and space much better than I can, and tell me what restaurants are … Continue reading →
Watson and Jeopardy: computer vs. people
I watched “Jeopardy” last night to see what all the fuss was about Watson, the computer who’s been coolly cleaning the clocks of previous mega-winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. I don’t like Watson. Seems to me that, although his … Continue reading →
Oldies but goodies at the Grammys
Did you watch the Grammys last night? I did. I happened to tune in after this old guy’s performance was over, but it apparently brought down the house: Mick Jagger is 67 years old. I would have pegged him for … Continue reading →
RIP Jack Lalanne
Here’s the proof (as if we needed any) that death comes to all: Jack Lalanne, pioneering fitness guru, has died at 96 of pneumonia. Jack in his youth, at the age of 94: “The good old days are this second.”
Continue reading →Hello Parent 1, Hello Parent 2
Oh boy, speaking of depressing news, we now have this: The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. “The words in the old form were ”˜mother’ … Continue reading →
The vaccine/autism connection was a fraud
Not an error: a deliberate fraud. Let that sink in a minute. It’s not been an inconsequential fraud, either; I completely agree with the contention, voiced in the British medical journal BMJ, that Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s original study purporting to … Continue reading →
At the retro concert
I’d never been to one before—you know, one of those concerts that specializes in 60s music. And I probably wouldn’t have gone to this one had it not been free. But there I was, standing because all the seats were … Continue reading →
Want a Chevy Volt?
If you do, be prepared to pay a $41,000 sticker price (you’ll get a $7,500 tax credit) for a blah sedan that can go about 50 miles on batteries if you charge it overnight, or can use conventional fuel. How … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse skewers…
…the hypocritical Sally Quinn. Although from the looks of things, it seems Quinn had already self-skewered. The whole thing’s about the burning topic of ethics and “Dancing With the Stars:” who should have won, and what constitutes cheating in the … Continue reading →
One person’s junk is another person’s family jewels
John Tyner has become a YouTube folk hero for declining a TSA patdown in no uncertain terms when he told the screener, “If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested.” The usually astute Charles Krauthammer demonstrates that … Continue reading →
Surest sign of the decline of the West…
…is a report that Mad Men’s curvy star Christina Hendricks may be going on a diet. Several billion men the world over cry, “Say it isn’t so, Christina!” Oh, okay, here’s a photo, because that’s just how much I aim … Continue reading →