I’ve made the semi-painful decision not to attend the Kiss concert in Birmingham next month. It’s expensive, for one ($141 for a good seat; $91 for a decent seat). It’s the same day as the Alabama-Tennessee game, for another. The opening act is Buckcherry, for yet another, which means I’d have to time our arrival … Read more
Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote a great piece this morning about that quaint, old-fashioned notion of actually remaining faithful to your spouse, and how vigorously our culture is eroding it. I remember some feature or another (TV, magazine, can’t remember) several years ago about greeting cards designed for one adulterer to send another. They were really … Read more
We’ve lost the battle for “ass.” When I was a boy, the bad words were, roughly: damn, hell, bastard, bitch, ass, shit, and fuck. (And variants; asshole, shithead, motherfucker, etc.) There are peripheral additions. There is a very nasty word for female genitalia which I shall not reproduce here, for example. (They’re way down there, … Read more