Thanks. Any respect I might have had for the prof. shriveled up and blew away at the misuse of wizened. Pretender.

And then you will be arrested for assault (but not indicted, probably) and the bathroom will be unusable until it airs out. There has to be a better way.

Where the hell are all these shy bladder types? Not in the men’s bathroom at a baseball game between innings, or even a Broadway theater at intermission.

This is really like the opposition to same-sex marriage again and “reasons” that never made any sense why it would be bad for traditional marriage. And both are, fundamentally, like the discovery by young people of what sex is and the horrifying realization that their parents did it and may still be doing it. Ohmigod…

Totally apart from everything else, his presentation in the 1964 ad, pausing to consider, lighting a cigarette, is so cool. It’s like he’s sitting at your dining table talking to you.

If a PR firm wrote this sentence: “The company in which I was involved with did not honor the contract and did not meet their obligations and as such the courts ruled in my favor,” they should be fired. Unless they were trying to make the statement look authentic.

I was at a highway rest stop in France last summer and the men’s room was closed for cleaning. “What am I supposed to do?” I asked the attendant in my laughable French. “Use the women’s room,” I think he answered. In any event, when I went into the women’s room, there were both men and women in there. And the whole…

Censorship can be practiced by corporations and other private groups; it just isn’t a violation of the First Amendment. TV networks censor sitcom scripts, family newspapers censor out obscenities and unsuitable topics. Censorship by a monopolistic media industry could theoretically thwart efforts to get worthy points…

We attribute “Talk softly and carry a big stick” to Teddy Roosevelt, but he attributed it to an African proverb. So it’s an old tradition.

I do think we are too quick to demand that people be fired for saying something unacceptable, but this was something else. His remarks were not merely sexist; they demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the sport he was paid to manage. For many years, women’s tennis has been the most compelling part of…

Late success is most satisfying kind.

If our concern is for the inhumane treatment of people in Arizona, cutting the state loose won’t help.

Whiskey “sells almost entirely by reputation.”

I usually finish novels I start but I called it off with Purity in South America and couldn’t finish Gone Girl, either. I have a theory that I really detest long passages about people’s feelings and how they reached their current unsatisfactory mental state. Even more when I’m being deceived to deepen the mystery.

“People that wear white socks with anything other than athletic clothing are an abomination.”

I’ve been waiting for someone to point out that the audience for early draft movie scripts is script readers, producers and directors. If the movie is shot almost everything will end up looking different from the descriptions. The descriptions are intended to grab the interest of the first audience. So the inept…

That last one is pretty much the description of Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar.

It’s not hard work and long hours that explain the success of diverse companies — and I have no doubt that the women who are able to make it to the top work harder and longer than the men on average. It’s the diversity itself that produces innovation and profits. Think different: the most successful companies in…

Public speaking is a skill that can be learned. With preparation and some kind of self-editing. I used to need notes or a script and now can talk about topics I am expert on for any length of time without notes. But back to S. Palin: it’s as though she throws out random thought-shaped nuggets without standard sentence…

“You want to air your balls, buy a car.”