the game of life

…and I say "Good for him."  How many other celebrities would have waited their turn? Read more

Tell me I’m not the only one who cracked up today reading "Best of the Web" where Taranto writes "LGBT is not a type of sandwich…".  Little does he know. Read more

This time it’s in Moscow! Dr. Petov Kulikov36A Ленина, 1-й этаж Санкт-Петербург, 197136 РоссияEmail: Tel: +7 925 0768113                                                                                 Dear , [Wayward Statistician], I am Dr. Petov Kulikov a medical consultant and personal health manager in the north of Moscow, my aged patient who died intestate in 2004(may her gentle soul rest in the Lord) Read more

What happens if you "call in gay," skip work, and nobody misses you?  This seems like a dumb stunt to pull when lots of companies are laying folks off, and right before Christmas…  (I confess, I’ve thought about "calling in sane," but that would be an obvious fib.) Read more

We’re in that strange season before Thanksgiving and after Halloween (or is it Labor Day?) when merchants lose all sense of decorum and start force-feeding us Christmas, subverting even the most well-brought-up children into becoming greedy little whiners.  I call it Friggin’ Christmas, and flat out refuse to participate.  Until the turkey is carved and Read more

It’s about time.  Writing in the New York Times, Alina Tugend calls bullshit on multitasking David E. Meyer, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, and his colleagues looked at young adults as they performed tasks that involved solving math problems or classifying geometric objects. Their 2001 study, published in The Journal of Read more

Dear Anderson, Good day to you and your family! This e-mail may come as a shock but I apologize and I hope that after you have gone through it, you will understand and be relieved of any fears. I decided to contact you out of desperation because of the situation at hand. I am Mr. Elliot Read more

Certain folks in San Antonio have gone all weepy over stray cats and dogs, and are implementing a "no kill" policy for city Animal Control.  Here’s a more useful alternative.  Here’s why it’s a good idea. Tip from American Digest (marginal notes). Read more

I wasn’t dreaming, Bill Whittle’s at it again.  This time at NRO, he shares his "Pain." Read more

Ashley Samelson has a biting take on nouvelle raunch feminists in WSJ: A male friend who attended the University of Michigan wrote to me in an email last month: "I, perhaps unconsciously, observe women to try and determine how they want to be treated. When I see girls at a party who seemingly have no Read more