Today, dear readers, I invite you to enjoy one of my favorite short stories: Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. If you have read it already, please reread it. (It’ll be good again. I promise.) It will take you 10 or 15 minutes at the most, but it will stay with you for the rest … Read more
So have you encountered the uproar over chef Beppe Begazzi’s recent comments on the Italian version of Ready Steady Cook? He recommended cat as a “succulent dish,” offering casserole preparation tips and what-not. A bunch of humorless malcontents with miserable lives flooded the station with complaints, the station told Begazzi to apologize, he refused, and … Read more
I used to sell cars. I’ve written of it a time or two, though not in a long while. There were about 20 months between when my life as a college student ended and my life as a technical writer began, and for some of those months I sold Acuras. I graduated from college in … Read more