Chicago suburban school board member attempts to ban books from the required reading list… Without having even read them herself.
My eyes are swollen with tears of hatred at your dumbness, lady. You aren’t just dumb. You’re dum. You don’t even deserve a “B” at the end of the word of [...]

One downside of not smoking is that I don’t get to use my Zippo anymore.
I have this classic steel Zippo lighter that I carried around for years. CHAK-click! I never, ever left home without it. The Promethean gift of fire, the stone age technological equivalent of the atomic bomb, right in [...]

In the elevator of the temporary art building Yumi Kim told us a pretty interesting story about how as an apprentice Leonardo Da Vinci worked on a painting together with his master Verrocchio.
Verrocchio did most of the painting himself, but he had Leonardo do a minor bit of it — he had him paint [...]

I’m still learning to decide which is good news to share and which is good news to keep secret to myself (because it’s more fun that way).
When I was a kid I loved hearing good news because it disproved the existence of bad news. Good news takes up the physical space where bad [...]