"Are your potato chips, potato chips?"

Aging isn't a purely linear process, and neither is losing one's faculties. One can retain the ability to balance a checkbook, to drive, to be aware of one's surroundings - yet lose the ability to remember to check the pot on the stove, or to treat communications from strangers with skepticism.

My sister was in the stirrups and her gyno asked her to spread her legs wider. She came back with, "You'll have to buy me dinner first." She said the guy's head came up so fast she was afraid he'd bang it on the end of the table.

I just came here to post that; thanks for beating me to it.

Loo-ey, loo-ey,

I just go to my credit union every couple of weeks for cash. I keep an emergency stash in a secure place in my home, but carry my weekly allowance with me. I usually have about forty bucks in my purse (the amount I'm prepared to lose if mugged) and the rest in a bra pocket. Also, because I am An Old, I write checks.…

History Myths Debunked, a fabulously fascinating blog that covers historical urban legends, has a post about the frequency of bathing/washing in olden times:

My premise is that scalp/hair condition, especially with regards to how quickly it gets oily, has at least as much to do with hormonal levels as with frequency of washing. I'm well into menopause and my hair care is so much simpler than it was from my teens to my thirties. It stays cleaner longer, since it doesn't get…

Back when my brother-in-law Tom was a typical drunken college student, he had a very friendly squirrel in the neighborhood befriend him. He called him Earl. (Yeah, Earl the Squirrel.)

That's right. Mounting each other is characteristic of cows in heat. Prior to this collar's development, one of the ways farmers could identify the cows in heat was with the use of collars that had pop-up flags mounted along the cow's spine. When the cow went into heat, it would be mounted by another cow, thus…

Scott Jones didn't invent Gracenote. Gracenote was originally called CDDB, which was invented by Ti Kan.

It's missing the current conflict between Gawker's new editor and the site's commentariat and writers.

Be careful of what you wish for. You just can't assume everyone shares your concept of what makes an ideal world or even ideal parents. Give other people the power to regulate our reproductive choices, and they could compel people to reproduce. They could also end up creating restrictions on having kids that you…

That ad is about as genuine as the typical female profile on Ashleymadison.com. In other words, not terribly real.

I gave them my zip code; they put me in the wrong city and there's no option to change it. As I know one of the rate variables is the city in which you reside, that's a problem.

That's one schizophrenic who hasn't yet discovered the internet.

When everybody's into sharing everything and always being available, privacy and not being available to just anybody will become the new fad. When that happens - goodbye, Facebook.

"I can see where it would be a matter for the state to be involved with because of the spread of disease and the likelihood that it would cause violence."

The Columbia Journalism Review did a story in 2007 on the issue of sexual abuse and assault of female journalists. The opening paragraph of the article describes a scene frighteningly similar to the account of what happened to Logan.