Feeling a little more anxiety than usual this holiday season? Perhaps a lot more. Maybe some feelings of dread and despair or pending doom. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Join the club. Loss of freedom, livelihood and human contact will do that to a person. There’s a special place in[…] Read On
As I sat down to a beautiful chicken piccata dinner prepared by my lovely wife Kim, I realized the presidential debate was on TV in the living room, which happens to be audible and visible from the kitchen island where we typically eat. Did I want to watch the stupid[…] Read On
“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!” – Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters Tesla has a $351 billion market cap. With a P/E of 976. Ellen Degeneres is getting canceled. Seth Rogen is being hailed as a historian of Judaism for playing a Jewish guy in a movie. A[…] Read On
The phone is ringing. We stopped answering it years ago. Now it just records robocalls and stuff. Why even have a home phone? Our property has a gate. The home phone controls the gate. My not-so-smart home guy has a plan to fix that — along with half a dozen[…] Read On
When I sit down to write a piece — column, blog post, whatever — I always type the same working title: WTF. I’ve been doing that for more than a decade. There it is, staring up at me right now, right above these letters I’m typing. WTF. Just thought you[…] Read On
If you really wanted to take down the greatest country in the history of the world, this is how you’d do it: React to a contagion no deadlier than the flu by locking down the entire nation, ostensibly to flatten the growth curve. Flatten the growth curve. Keep the economy[…] Read On
Now that the stock market has soared like a gazillion points and officially mocked my foolish attempts at hedging against a market collapse I’m thinking it’s safe to return to my natural pre-viral state of cynical mockery. Some people are doing some very good work to lighten the mood in[…] Read On