I see a post nearly every day, usually in the morning, on Facebook or Twitter lamenting that the poster can’t get to sleep. The poster, who is sitting upright, performing a task with his/her hands requiring considerable dexterity, and staring at a brightly lit and colorful screen can’t get to sleep. Go figure. Have a [...]
One of my favorite opinion journalists, John Derbyshire, was dismissed from the staff of National Review this weekend. I first heard of it in a roundabout way. I spotted his name in a headline during one of my periodic check-ins at The Nation‘s web site. (That’s an excellent place to monitor ongoing hard left narratives, [...]
Free To Be… You and Me was one of my greatest treasures as a child. It’s an anthology of short fiction, poetry, songs, and a dialogue or two, all having to do in one way or another with being true to yourself, with a frequent emphasis on gender neutrality. I bet I went all the [...]
I really wasn’t going to comment on this, because a) it’s stupid, and b) see a). However, it seems to have the legs to be around for a while longer, so here is my addition to its Google footprint. The chance that I’ll be listening to Rush Limbaugh on any given day is about 1 [...]
So I tiptoed into Tommy’s hotsauce.com order at work, my patronage having been solicited in order to help reach the $75 free shipping threshold. (Oh, they seriously incentivize you to get there too.) I’ve enjoyed my two selections, except that I’ve almost drained them in less than two weeks. (One night this week I was [...]
