Everybody loves a winner!

The animal groups are the most persistent, though, in my experience. Ten bucks to the WWF and you’re guaranteed a lifetime of emails, phone calls, unwanted return address labels, holiday cards, etc.

What were you interviewing for when they asked you what you strongly believed in? I suppose the correct response would be, “To always do my best to support my team and do what’s best for the company” but...what if you said, “I firmly believe that the government should release what it has on the alien life forms that…

Macadamia nuts though. Cookies, brownies, throw ‘em in.

I spent some quality time in East Berlin/East Germany in college. I was an International Econ major and my thinking was that Communism could work in an industrialized society with a broadly educated workforce if only the inputs and needs were better known.

A few months after we invaded Iraq I and a bunch of college friends I hadn’t seen for a long time (we’re all Americans) went to London. During a boozy restaurant dinner I decided to explain why the invasion of Iraq was an excellent and successful military operation. I whipped out the trump card: “Well, I was in…

I have a friend named Jory and he has no idea why his parents picked the name, and they didn’t either. They just heard the name somewhere and went with it. I will be seeing him in a couple of weeks and will tell him about this “Flowers in the Attic”/”Sword of God” etymology. He is going to be so excited.

I’ve long thought that in the same way that, no matter their circumstances, all kids in a school sit in the same classrooms, all kids should be allowed into cafeterias and not pay for anything. Not that it would be an all-you-can-eat buffet free-for-all, something kind of supervised with options.

Are you old enough to remember “In Living Color”? (Wayans brothers, it’s where Jim Carrey got his start?) They did a hilarious parody of “Raisin in the Sun.” ILC’s entire oeuvre seems to be on YouTube but I can’t find the scene. 

A staunch Democratic friend of mine bought a new car right after the 2004 Dem convention and proudly and promptly slapped a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on it. We both had voted for Edwards in the primary but whereas I was bitterly disappointed that Edwards was relegated to the second slot she was more loyal to the…

What is the God Squad? Google, like Siri with Barbara Bush’s height, is no help. Apparently it was a Catholic Monsignor and a rabbi duo? Which were you? At least one of them is dead, so I don’t mean to doxx you.

I grew up in a very druggy time (the 70s) and there was no DARE. My state was on the verge of legalizing pot at the time, and not for its medicinal purposes.

Can anyone identify who the people in the photo are? The one on the left was famous, I know I’ve seen his face more than once in archival footage. Of course if his identity were revealed his estate might bring another ruinous lawsuit since he’s now been implicated in some kind of white male supremacist cabal.

Not pander-y enough for the Governor of the Land O’ Cheese though. When I was in college I used to subsist off of sandwiches of my own creation containing tomato slices and a mixture of whatever cheeses were on sale at the local supermarket deli (Swiss/provolone combo mostly. They used to practically give the…

Or my dog when you wave a bully stick at him. And only recently did I learn what his favorite treat in the whole wide world actually was.

She might have emailed this intel to Ashley’s Woodward/Bernstein-like pharmacy contact and that’s what he printed out.

But at least you got unlimited salad and breadsticks out of it.

Have you ever had hot chocolate laced with dark rum, spicy version or regular? You’ll wish the winter would never end.

Why, why do I read anything on this site any later than three or four hours before going to bed?

I was surprised to learn that Barack Obama is left-handed: