One of my regrets is that I never got to England after getting my Flip camera.
You’ve met my grandfather through his written work here on the site; reading his last one, I was struck by the immediacy of it, the way you read it and feel that he’s still there, alive in his work. I [...]
10. “So what was the last movie you reviewed? And what did you say about it?”
9. “Moving forward, yours is not the kind of writing we need.”
8. “Isn’t wrestling fake?”
7. “So, how many OTHER internet dates have you been on?”
6. “Ronald Reagan won the Cold War.”
5. “It looks like it’s gonna be a good year [...]
In the ongoing debate about health care, right-wingers who don’t want the government involved consistently point to the post office as an example of how terribly the government runs things.
Now, I’m not gonna pretend that I like lining up with my package to France, the week before Christmas, when there are only two clerks on [...]
Really. Is it?
This has been swirling through my mind since the death of Ted Kennedy, one of the right-wing’s most hated Democrats. If you honestly hated the guy in life, should you be obliged to suspend that hate in death?
I don’t think anyone argued on the day of Saddam Hussein’s execution that we should say [...]
I hate the dentist.
Nothing personal…I actually feel bad for the dentist who has to deal with me as a patient. But even when I sedate myself, it still sucks.
I take two Benadryl an hour before. Should have done three. But I am easily paranoid and thought it might be enough. Sure…if this were a normal [...]