And yet, I’m easily cheered up

The other day, on a whim, I added one of those widgets to track my readers’ locations and was amused to see the wide variety of places people are visiting from. Some of the locations are puzzling, though. So, if  [more...]

Every Sunday, I religiously read The Style Invitational in The Washington Post. Today: the results of a contest in which entrants were asked to combine two words that overlap by two letters or more. A couple of my  [more...]

Do we get the government we deserve? [As the Onion reported, “You know, they say people get the government they deserve, but I don’t recall knife-raping any retarded nuns.” – thanks, Kirk] Maybe  [more...]