Since one person’s coincidence is another person’s conspiracy—and because you’re getting entirely too much restful sleep every night—please consider the following paranoiac pleasures:

A recent headline in the Wall Street Journal goes a long way toward explaining why my annual subscription renewal is never in peril: “Are You Exercising Too Much?”

According to reliable sources, Summer ends at midnight, September 21. That’s still six weeks away so don’t store those white shoes or start unpacking your tweedy sweaters just yet.

While the slogan for Delta Airlines is “We’re ready when you are,” the mega-carrier apparently thinks you should get ready a bit faster—especially if you’re taking up space for more than three hours in their “club lounge.”

News that Amazon is getting into healthcare in a major way must have hospitals and clinics as wary as they were when the megalithic monster wreaked havoc on book stores, video rental shops and even some grocery outlets, systematically hobbling then gobbling them up

Friends, readers and audiences often ask me about favoritism.

Film fans have favorite lines—everything from “Here’s looking at you, kid” (how Humphrey Bogart as Rick toasts Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa in “Casablanca”) to “Go ahead, make my day” (how Clint Eastwood as “Dirty” Harry Callahan threatens a guy who’s just shot up a coffee shop in “Sudden Impact”).

Just as an attorney may try to talk down a furious client from wanting to sue everyone in sight, I’ve often advised my marketing and public relations clients who, somewhat apoplectically, want me to demand a correction from a news outlet they feel has wronged them that doing so may not actually be in their best interest.

First, a disclaimer: To the best of my memory, I’ve rarely used a pickup line and absolutely never used a successful one.

A new concept in vacation travel has the potential to make us think we’re suffering from either somnambulism or a blackout hangover.