Assholes take newborns or small children and DON'T GET THEM THEIR OWN FUCKING SEAT. If I can't put my purse in my lap during takeoff you shouldn't be able to put your screaming, flailing, 20-pound potential projectile in yours either.

This is actually a real thing. My mother, who had a German-Dutch background, used to make exactly this — bread soaked in the grease in the bottom of a pan in which she had just cooked something which produced excess grease. She called them "dunkels" and said she learned to do it from her Grandmother. (Dunno which…

I briefly attended "Dubyanell" (The horror! The horror!) in Lexington for law school in the mid-90s and never had any problems with computer/internet/radio access. Maybe things have changed in 15 years?

I loathe Miley Cyrus, but this made me cry. As a homeless, yet employed, professional, my empathy knows no bounds for people like this young man. Kudos to Miley for trying to raise awareness among people with the means to mitigate this problem.

I was standing at a train station in Holland, at the start of a backpacking trip after law school, and read about his death in a USA Today I found lying on a bench. I remember it as clear as though it was yesterday. This would have been late May 1998. Seriously, hearing about losing Hartman ranks up there with the…

People always forget about the potential need to cut themselves out. I race sailboats and am often tethered to the boat in heavy seas. I'd never consider doing so without also having a knife attached to me to cut said tether if the shackle was damaged and I couldn't get free. I know people who've died because they…