I have avoided posting much about politics lately because … well, politics. These two clowns we have running for president … well, again, what can you say? One’s clearly a more dangerous, stupid, inexperienced, corrupt, racist, misogynist, loud-mouthed clown than the other, sure. But this isn’t about that. If you want that, read Keith Olbermann’s… Read More Watching the MSM
Someday, I will publish a coffee table book that will be filled with beautiful, artistic photos of public signs with misused apostrophes. It will be 536 pages long. That will be the first volume. I don’t consider myself a grammar nut. I’m not the punctuation police by any stretch. I don’t dissolve into puddles over these things (like… Read More Apostrophe me
Before a few weeks ago, my wife, aware as she is about the world around her, did not know Colin Kaepernick from Capper Collarnick. That probably doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I don’t know who Capper Collarnick is, either. Still. Stick with me. My wife had never heard of Colin Kaepernick until, for reasons he has made clear enough,… Read More Sitting down, standing up
It’s not the idea of a self-cleaning toilet. That seems like pure awesomeness. It’s the sign, folks. It’s the words. Someone got paid to come up with that “slogan” and convinced his or her boss that it was a good idea. The boss took it to the bean counters who approved it being printed on big cardboard… Read More Someone gets paid for this
We didn’t cry. Well, we didn’t cry a lot. And here we are, a week into our empty nest, still mostly dry-eyed. We’re still all right. Thanks for asking. It’s not as if everything suddenly screeched to a dead-silent halt around here, either. Luke’s still the topic of the day. It is, after all, his first week of college.… Read More One week in
I’ve spent the past few weeks — well, honestly, it’s been a lot longer than that — thinking about what to say to the boy when we drive him downtown to his dorm Thursday afternoon, unload an SUV full of clothes and electronics and turn around to come home without him. This is a big deal, this… Read More Words to the boy
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