How to Look Like You’re Working
The impending extinction of newspapers is bound to curtail one of the best gimmicks for pretending you’re hard at work in your office…
Read MoreMass-Market Paperbacks: Threatened or…Endangered?
Long before the price of a popular hardcover book required us to put down a 20 percent deposit and pay it off in 36 months, these words could brighten our day: …
Read MoreIs Competition Worth Competing About?
The world might be a slightly better place if our birth certificates contained non-compete clauses and our marriage licenses had non-disclosure agreements.
Read MoreTime for an Installment of Whizdumb
It’s Monday, and if you need some words of affirmation to help you glide into the workweek, look elsewhere, Angel.
Read More“Yes Men” Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But Integrity
While the job is rarely mentioned anymore, its functions remain an essential component of corporate, political and even domestic life.
Read MoreWhen Robo-Taxis Go Rogue-o
The trouble with adopting a motto for your town is that you then have to live up to it.
Read MoreWill You Ignore Black-and-White Icons?
In a recent guest editorial in the New York Times, the writer tells how she curbed her smart-phone addiction by switching all of the images on it from full-color to black-and-white, which she finds less compelling.
Read MoreIs the Joy Of Flossing Now an Actual Thing?
I’ve long believed that dentists invented plaque and “tartar buildup” when cavities—their most reliable revenue sources—
Read MoreArtist David Lobenberg Underwent His Own Climate Change
David Lobenberg, the highly talented watercolor artist and college instructor who gives popular painting workshops around the world, has said he was “born drawing.”
Read MoreWhen A Child Turns 40 and You Find It Youthening
I was a no-show for an Easter Brunch 40 years ago today when something came up—or rather, came into the world.
Read MoreForget MAGA and MAHA: Introducing MASA
I’m guessing you’ve heard that this coming November are the country’s midterm elections. I mean, it was in all the papers—but since there are fewer and fewer of those, I can’t blame you for missing the news.
Read MoreConfessions of a Newspaper Junkie
Though I’ve never been a true news junkie, I confess to being a newspaper junkie.
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