I would get the occasional student with a challenging name who would tell me “say it however you want,” not indignantly but just because they were the kind of kid who didn’t want to be a bother. To which I would just as politely respond “No. It’s your name. Don’t let other people define who you are. Tell me how it’s…

Easy trick from a former college professor: First day of class, you go around the room and have each student say their name while you mark them on the roster. Takes less time than you stumbling through the names, you start the semester learning the correct pronunciation directly from the student, and there’s minimal…

The comparisons to a teenager are numerous: we substitute depth with intensity (this statue nonsense is a perfect example), rely on feelings in the absence of wisdom, and demand that we’re ready for the responsibility of leadership yet frequently bungle it through our refusal to listen to and cooperate with others.

I’ve been WFH for three months now. In that time, we could’ve come up with and begun executing some kind of ambitious national plan . . . if we had any leadership worth a damn. Maybe the lockdown could’ve even been avoided if January-March weren’t lost to denial, grandstanding, and the usual temper tantrums from that…

Same. If you could 100% guarantee that everyone would follow the rules throughout the entire movie, then I’d go. But I’ve seen enough people “wearing” their masks in a way that would make even the Wu-Tang Clan disapprove. Those theater masks won’t even make it past the second Coke commercial.

The only time I listened to XM was about 7 years ago when I got a free trial with a new car. What I remember was that 80s channel playing Depeche Mode about every third song.

The humor level of any comedian is directly inverse to the “wackiness” of the face they make in their headshots. Brian Regan’s headshots sure are wacky!

Had to reload several times before I could get past the second comedian. I kept getting kicked back to Brian Regan. And Brian Regan sucks, so it was doubly frustrating.

Meghan’s just worried that if this period of historical reinvestigation continues, eventually someone will get to dear old dad and ask uncomfortable questions like “Exactly what did John McCain do to earn the title ‘Maverick of the Senate’? Was it voting with Trump only 83% of the time compared to voting with W 95%?”…

One of the side effects of being a young country is that we are an incredibly insecure country. In so many ways our national character is that of a hormonally imbalanced high school freshman who is unsure of its identity, desperate to be liked and accepted, and quick to lash out at any perceived slight. You see it in…

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We’re also a nation built on and fully embracing the myth of the rugged individualist. And what better way to celebrate the triumph of the individual than a statue? Yee-haw!

No matter how many Confederate statues come down, anyone who is worried can rest assured that history will not be forgotten. We will still have many, many books to remind us and teach our children that the Confederacy lost.

I hope you’re right. Still, anyone hoping to see him gone needs to vote in November. Even if every sign, indicator, metric, and poll says he’s going to lose in a landslide, if voters stay home because they think one vote doesn’t matter and the result is anything other than a decisive electoral college loss, he’s going…

Silver lining: He can whine about conspiracies all he wants; it’s voting that matters (sorta).

Reports are that K-pop fans and some TikTok kids reserved a large number of seats and then intentionally no-showed. Which, if true, is partly hilarious but partly unfortunate because then it gives Trump the chance to say left-wing trolls and foreigners conspired to ruin his rally. Conspiracies and playing the victim…

The thief isn’t stealing vegetables (noun), the thief IS a vegetable (adjective)—peas. That’s the joke.

A question well asked is half answered. They don’t care about anyone but themselves; that’s why they’re assholes.

Capitalism 101: If I can’t operate my business, I won’t make money.

What did the old comedian say to the vegetable thief?