Category: Silly Stuff

A couple of idle thoughts. Have you ever noticed that young children are enormous resource hogs?

The other day, when my son got off the bus, he grabbed the dog’s leash and quickly headed off to our house.

The Left hand, that is. It turns out that while we lefties are likely to die sooner (a statistic I’ve grown up hearing but can’t source), we’ll be smarter and faster along the way. All is know is that, despite having spent my entire life amongst right handers, I still

I have a very sick fantasy.  I dream that, although I have no discernible symptoms, I’m nevertheless diagnosed with a very serious disease that has only one known treatment:  three days of complete bed rest, including meals in bed.  Follow that regimen and you’re cured.  Is that a sick dream

I can’t decide if the woman in this story is almost too dumb to live, or if she’s an exceptionally good citizen, doing the taking some of the burden off the California Highway Patrol: Mary McGill stopped by the California Highway Patrol office in Corte Madera on Wednesday to pick

If you haven’t already done so, take the time to check out 30 Rock. The fact that Tina Fey, the head writer, and the star, was head writer at Saturday Night Live actually wasn’t much of a recommendation as far as I was concerned. Happily, I overcame that prejudice, because

Donald Hagen, who blogs at Rhymes with Right, took the time to prepare a lengthy satirical quiz, looking at the probable political attitudes of conservatives, liberals, libertarians and communists. Although the quiz isn’t meant to be taken too seriously, I definitely fall on the conservative/libertarian scale (or would, if I

Really, it’s no surprise that radical Islam is gaining traction in England when this is the type of intelligence the natives are demonstrating: A man was rushed to hospital in Britain with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework from his bottom, an ambulance service spokesman said.

Kerry’s allegedly botched joke made me think of an old joke: A visibly upset woman ran into a friend.  He asked her what was wrong. “Oh, my God!  I was having lunch with my mother,” she said, “and I made the worst Freudian slip.  I meant to say ‘Please pass

Although you wouldn’t guess it from the typos peppering my posts, I do care about grammar.  Apparently some corporations should also start caring about grammar.  In Canada, the spin a sentence received from a comma cost $888,000 to a party to a commercial dispute. To toot my horn, I’ve helped

The New York Times runs a funny, but somewhat disturbing story about a Yale student’s video application to a securities firm, which someone at the firm leaked, and which is now a YouTube staple: With his name and image appearing on the “Today” show, in The New York Post and

I was with my kids at our crowded local post office today.  As you know, they always have displays of the speciality stamps one can buy.  In her carrying voice, my oldest announced, “If I had the money, I’d buy the one to help prevent family violence.” “Hmm,” I thought,