Faceoff
Facebook has become one of the largest organizations in the world largely because it doesn't have an intelligence test to qualify members. This morning some moron posted that we have to become like Canada in the US: triple our union membership
Modern Times
Comedian Louis C.K. asks why we complain about airline service when we're able to sit in a chair and ride in the sky. I've heard people complain that their cell phone call to London, while walking down a street in
The Frisbee Rule
Bentley and I try to get some Frisbee in every day. It's easy for me, I stand in one spot at the top of the yard and he races downhill after the disk (for the analytic among you, in excess
What?
I was hosting friends at The Square, one of my favorite London restaurants, but very French and very aloof. (I'm sorry, that was redundant.) They serve things such as noisette of fulmars over crepe de soire, a la Rouen. So
It’s Not Your Mother’s Fault
How did that US government invasion of Texas go? I must have missed it on the news. Lincoln Chaffee, the goofball ex-governor of Rhode Island, famous for switching parties and insisting that Christmas Trees be called "holiday trees," is running for
Poverty of Imagination
A woman I don't know wrote me as part of a mass email this morning asking me to promote her new book to my entire mailing list. I was to include some "offer" so that someone buying the book would
Hatred and Racism Over Monday Morning Memo®!
I receive a lot of email thanking me for Monday Morning Memo® (latest one is below) or offering other views. I try to respond to them all. The subscription list keeps growing, now past 15,000. Yet, every so often, perhaps twice
The Tipo People
There are many ways to be annoying typo-hunters. Here's an excerpt from my current Monday Morning Memo®: Monday Morning Perspective: A billion seconds ago it was 1951. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive and walking in Galilee. A billion hours ago
Bizarro World (It’s Not Your Mother’s Fault)
For those of you unfamiliar, "Bizarro" originated in the Superman Comics and was revived on Seinfeld. Essentially, it means "polar opposite," so there was an evil anti-Superman, an anti-Earth, and so on. However, it may not be strictly fictional or, alternatively,
Rehab Me
The mayor of San Diego, after long denying sexual harassment claims, has now apparently gone into "two weeks of intensive therapy" after overwhelming evidence has been brought against him by several women. Therapy and rehab have become way stations on the