Plus all those fancy classes and auditing and stuff make it possible to use the phrase “ne plus ultra” in public without the slightest shred of shame or irony.

I am having a teeney bit of trouble wrapping my head around the Trump-Sessions beef. Has the president forgotten that he is, like, the president and can pick up the phone and call his attorney general pretty much anytime of day or night? Or even summon him to the White House and yell at him all he wants in person? His…

Ok, so you’re old fashioned. Know what else is “old fashioned,” Rudy? Slavery. Colonialism. Human sacrifice. Cannibalism. Crapping in the stream out behind your shack. Going to bed at sunset because you have no means of artificial illumination. Eating raw meat because you haven’t discovered fire. Do you believe in…

When my younger son was in fourth or fifth grade, he explained that he doesn’t study because he “wanted to make the tests harder.” Seems like a perfectly reasonable approach.

There have been lots of historical comparisons made with Trump, including Mussolini, Silvio Berlusconi, Kaiser Wilhelm and others. But I am beginning to think a better comparison might be Czar Peter III, the short-lived husband of Catherine the Great. He reputedly hated being Czar and was far too shallow and feckless…

My mom really did mean “maybe” but usually with a mildly possible twist, as in “maybe we’ll all have a Popsicle when we get home.” My father, on the other hand, would say “we’ll see,” which was short for “we’ll see how long I remain breathing and able to make sure that does not happen under any possible circumstances.”

Cheney went on to discuss his approach to pet ownership, which he describes as “enhanced petting.” The technique reportedly involves sharp sticks and red hot irons, but he insisted that only “girly-men and Democrats” would describe such expressions of love for pets as “torture.”

If we ever needed a direct window into Trump’s world view, it is provided in this line:
“91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake)“

No, he will not get fired. First he will expand in a ball of fire, consuming everything in his orbit, then he collapse back into himself, creating a black hole out of which nothing but ego will radiate. But Rudi will NOT get fired.

Kim has achieved something remarkable here: She has somehow figured out how to take a photo of a voluptuous human female in a state of undress that is complete devoid of any erotic charm.

This is the exact reason why I insist on driving a Jeep and refuse to use Mac products - if something is too comfortable or easy, then it must not be worth doing.

Some of the great old classics are probably out there on the used market: Traveller, which was “No Man’s Sky” before there was “No Man’s Sky,” Gamma World, which was “Fallout” before there was “Fallout,” the post-apocalyptic Twilight 2000, where you were a team of soldiers stranded in Europe after a NATO-Soviet war…

So to summarize: Just say no to drugs; Just say yes, please to junk food. Got it:
“This is your brain on drugs. This is a Wendy’s double cheese burger combo.”

My wife and I got all nostalgic and decided to show our hyper-literate, video-game-loving, almost-grown-up sons “Pulp Fiction,” a movie we loved at the time but haven’t seen in maybe 20 years. And damned if we weren’t all bored stiff. We quit half way through and nobody was sorry.

Made it 1 minute, 49 seconds and then I was 5 years old again. Thanks for making me cry at work...

That’s the perfect elevator pitch: “It’s like Twitter but with no Nazis”

I bought one of these things a year ago because I have always wanted to try pressure cooking. And it does have its moments. But I have yet to find a recipe that was better than the same thing cooked low-and-slow in a nice enameled pot in a conventional oven.

I did once successfully use it for aggregating and monitoring news sites across the state of Pennsylvania, which was necessary in a job I had briefly, so I can see its utility in specialized situations. And I have some journalistic colleagues who have used it successfully in breaking news situation, though I have had…

Honestly, I don’t understand Twitter. I have accounts, both personal and professional, but unless you’re a company or politician making announcements, or you really (really) like beefing with people you don’t know all day long, I don’t see the point. Certainly from a professional point of view, Twitter generates…

It’s so cute when the president acts like he knows what he’s talking about.