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Have a mom who criticizes your cake-decorating skills? Wondering why she always praises your brother’s water-skiing and not yours? Ask Your Maternal Buttinsky Advisor, she’s full of vindictive ideas! Dear Maternal Buttinsky Advisor: I am […]
A calico cat that was the mascot of the Boston Police Department’s Special Weapons and Tactics Team disappeared in November and did not return until January. The Boston Globe We were […]
DURHAM, North Carolina. It is, members of the profession say, a hurtful form of “hate speech,” but one that is still acceptable among otherwise-polite Americans. “Whenever I hear an anti-accountant joke, I just bite my […]
The tradition of American memoir is a rich and varied one, from Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice to J. Edgar Hoover’s Memoirs of a Cross-Dressing G-Man. That vein of silver has been tarnished by fabrications such as James […]
Procter & Gamble has mobilized a team of researchers to determine by scientific methods when a woman will have a bad hair day. The Wall Street Journal Don’t laugh–it could happen to you. […]
After two months of self-imposed quarantine, it’s time to get back to work and try to save an economy that’s slipped backwards to medieval levels, with serfdom and jousting looming on the horizon. Here at […]
A high school in Texas requires female students to have prom dresses pre-approved by a school coach. The Wall Street Journal As I looked out the window of my tiny, bare-bones office onto the mesquite-speckled […]
What to Do When a Man’s Sex Drive Flags? Do new nonsexual things together. Take up a new hobby, try a new cuisine, ride a roller coaster. The Wall Street Journal As I entered the […]
SEPULVEDA, California. Thomas “Tom” Freeb, bass guitar player for My Unicorn’s Knightmare, an antacid rock band of the 60′s, died yesterday of complications from adenoid surgery. He was 71. Tom and Tim Freeb with guitars in their first […]
Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to change the way we view the world. For me, it was the story of David Sharp. Sharp was a climber in distress who died 300 feet from the summit […]