People in the 70s kept Pet Rocks. Just sayin’.

My father-in-law is also a veteran. A few years back, I heard that there’s a tradition that if you write to the White House to tell them you’ve been married 50 years, the President will write back to congratulate you. I heard about this around my in-laws 48 anniversary and Obama was still in office. By the time they…

There are a lot of similarities between Trump and a terrible uncle of mine: racist, sexist, blowhard, self-aggrandizing, self-mythologizing, ignores facts and history, got his money from his father, pathological moocher, never did a real day’s work in his life. My uncle is 72 and about 6'3", 250 lbs. So I don’t find…

That sounds pleasant. With Stardew Valley, I missed whatever the festival was where you get a bunch of stuff and so I felt stifled in my progress waiting for another year to roll around. In DragonQuest: Builders, I just kinda got tired of digging up dirt and laying mudblocks. I don’t think I would like Minecraft.…

So, I’ve never played Animal Crossing. Is it like DragonQuest: Builders, Stardew Valley, etc.? What is it about the game that has people so excited?

By reclaiming her seat as Speaker, she and her Old Guard stooges willfully ignored the message of the 2018 election, which was that we the voters sent new blood to Washington in direct response to the threat of Trump with the primary mission of investigating and impeaching him. But her Ok Boomer generation just…

Thing is, Pelosi set up a chess board but she’s playing against a guy who will just knock over the pieces because he doesn’t understand the game, call the game stupid and/or for nerds, and high five with the knuckleheaded sycophants who surround him. Chess is a game of rules, and the reason Trump appeals to his base…

Yeah, but a dark horse comes out of obscurity and nobody expects them to win. I like to remind myself that I’m actually closer to the majority opinion than they are and that progress might be slow but it is inevitable.

Try thinking of yourself as the only white sheep in a flock of black. Don’t let them claim normal. That’s what I do.

Pelosi’s right, it is sad that we allowed this man into this position and now have proof of our negligence on display for the entire world. There is nothing to gloat about here. We have won nothing. We have to stay laser focused on November and removing this tumor before it can spread further. And then we have to stop…

You seem fun. Let’s hang out. You bring the boiled chicken; I’ll bring the funeral dirges! We can read automotive manuals to each other!

Reality TV is basically the Star Search diaspora: cheaply made television spotlighting aspiring attention-seekers from around the world hoping for a chance at fame and fortune.

It’s easier if you just think of them as spokesmodels. Influencers are just an Instagram filter on a very old method of selling products. We used to choose new ones on Star Search.

Just like when “Linus and Lucy” knocked out “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in the third round bracket of my family’s Christmas music tournament last weekend, this tourney has gone completely off the rails! It’s a farce, I say! A farce!

I want my house to look like the living room in Golden Girls. 80s geriatric Miami.

You had me until you suggested replacing Mid-century Modern with Shabby Chic, Memphis, and/or Rococo. It’s almost 2020: Can we start creating aesthetics for this century yet?

My wife has a pair of 1960s production Le Corbusier LC1 chairs that she got from an old lady who hosted her poetry group in her Upper West Side apartment. The lady was divesting of her worldly possessions in grand fashion and had a lot of nice pieces . . . and some once-nice pieces that needed a little love. All that…

Business Insider announced that shares in Peloton fell 9% in a single day following response to the ad, erasing $942 million in market value. The shares have started to slowly rebound, but the audience response to the ad has made investing in the company suddenly seem risky, and a perceived volatile stock is not good…

It’s not exactly a closely guarded secret.

Also, Verizon’s potential reach into people’s lives is so much broader than something like Peloton, so they need a more multi-faceted campaign.