Some stuff hangs onto its relevance and/or utility in modern society by a half a hair’s width. Here are my five nominees. 5. Condoms. (I mean for birth control, not disease prevention.) Yeah, all right. Did my time with them. Paid my dues. For a couple of years now there’s been a 99.995% chance I’m … Read more
Well, not strictly speaking, but it’s the last one on my personal profile that dates from 2008. I just “marked it for deletion,” meaning that if I don’t log back into it in the next fourteen days, Facebook will delete it (not deactivate it) from their servers. Will they really do that? Who the hell … Read more
You ever feel like that? Wow, is everything nuts right now. The biggest, and saddest, news is that we’re almost certainly going to have to say goodbye to Oliver next week. He is severely anemic, and we’ve systematically eliminated potentially treatable causes over the past couple of weeks. Our last try is doubling his prednisone … Read more