Something I Found in an Old Clip
A guy in Montreal turned a paperclip into a house. Let’s start at the beginning: It was a regular, run of the mill red paperclip, which Kyle MacDonald noticed on his desk while sitting around […]
A guy in Montreal turned a paperclip into a house. Let’s start at the beginning: It was a regular, run of the mill red paperclip, which Kyle MacDonald noticed on his desk while sitting around […]
Have you ever received one of those e-mails about all the amazing things you can do with, say, Coke, or some other seemingly innocent substance? (I mean Coca-Cola, not the drug that used to be […]
By now you’re all sick of 2025 being as bad as 2024, and maybe you’re thinking of just cancelling the rest of the 2020s. Low ratings, right? They cancelled Firefly. But my wife and I […]
During the last national election (in the otherwise cursed year of 2024), Tippecanoe County, Indiana received a number of write-in ballots for the office of President. I’ve always thought of write-ins as being the sign […]
I don’t do resolutions, because failing is a terrible way to start a new year. If you make a major life change, do it gradually. A New Year’s Resolution is like someone who never exercised […]
T’was the night before Christmas when I met my partner, Mary Darling, for our Christmas Eve shift in the City of Angels. “Merry Christmas, Darling.” The squad room’s halls were decked. “Feliz Navidad,” replied Darling, […]
It can be nice to sit in our house and let the summer breeze blow past. Or, to get even more breeze, we could open the windows. My house leaks like a Washington insider. Over […]
I was very curious to know what the results would be from the upcoming US Presidential election, so I borrowed a car from a friend of mine and went to check it out. When […]
I recently stumbled across a blog I wrote in 2006 (!), and I thought I’d reprint it to show how my summers haven’t gotten all that worse in recent years: They were always worse. […]
The theme for this year’s Fire Prevention Weeks is “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you”. Which sound like a great idea, but then you have to pay them, and send W-2 forms, and it […]