Confusing Fads With Science
2019-04-01 – Happy April Fools’ Day! Six years ago today, I got the idea that April Fools’ Day had become so successful that it had taken over the entire year. […]
Tag Archives: Culture
Gender Is Located in Three Places
2019-03-04 – Gender is located in three places: between your legs, between your ears, and between you and me. There’s a fourth place where people like to situate gender: in […]
Where Have All the Editors Gone?
2019-02-25 – Where have all the editors gone? I have been a paid writer and an editor for 35 years. I wrote and edited for maybe 15 years before that. […]
Getting My Life Back While Still Being Part of the #Resistance
2019-02-21 – On Monday I wrote about how Trump has corrupted comedy—and parenthetically about how my obsession with all things Trump has corrupted my writing. Today I’m going to tell […]
“Nothing Funny About Tired Saturday Night Live . . .”
2018-02-18 – Trump tweets: “Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live . . .” And, you know, he’s right for a change. Comedy has gotten lazy. It used to be […]
Unbundling of the Whole-y Texts
2019-01-14 – Everyone loves being a rebel. We revel in our self images as iconoclasts. We love smashing the idols. So why is it that we also love erecting new […]
The Holidays Are All Downhill from Here
2018-12-03 – Our favorite day of the holiday season is the day that we go out to the country to cut down our tree. That was yesterday. The rest of […]
Get Out! The Vote – and Then What?
2018-11-05 – Stop reading this and go vote. I’ll wait. * * * Welcome back. As of today, we don’t know how this will all come out. Either it will […]
It’s Not the #MeToo Movement That’s Giving Men a Hard Time
2018-10-11 – If anyone is giving men and boys a hard time, it’s not the #MeToo movement. It’s the creeps who say that it is normal for men and boys to […]
Do Flat Tires Come in Threes?
2018-09-27 – My first flat tire came almost three weeks ago. This was literally the first flat tire I ever had on a road bike I bought a year and […]
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