What Is Cancel Culture?—An Irrational Discussion
I’ll admit that when I first heard the term “cancel culture,” I thought it was a government edict for me to cancel my membership in the Yogurt of the Month Club.
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Ex-Veep’s Memoir Debuts in 2023. The (sus)Pence Is Killing Me!
A few thousand writers and editors affiliated with Simon & Schuster are doing their damnedest to ensure that a memoir by former Vice President Mike Pence will become a best-seller when it comes out in 2023.
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Stir-Crazy? Time to Get Those Kids to Disneyland!
Pandemic-weary parents can be excused for thinking they’d just hopped out of the wok and into the Mongolian barbecue pit.
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Amazon and 007: Together at Last!
The setting: A lushly appointed office secreted behind a mini-mart/petrol station on the ground floor of a London skyscraper. (Note to IRS: The Goldman State will be writing off this completely necessary research trip as a business expense or lengthy overseas convalescence, depending on which story you buy.)
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Internet Company Sued for Online Slowness (I Should Be, Too)
I was shocked—shocked!—to read in the Wall Street Journal late last month that a company was being sued over its claims of providing speedy internet service.
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Gates vs. Gates: O, How the Mighty Are All-in
Like many of you, I’ve been following the ongoing tale of Bill and Melinda Gates’s domestic worries with equal parts empathy, anger and apathy. The latter part is beginning to swallow up the first two parts. But there’s still time to comment before I nod off.
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Drought Measures Presented in a Dry Manner
Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff of summer and we’re now officially in a drought here in California. Until Governor Gavin Newsom declared it, we were evidently in an ex officio drought, which was a little like having a learner’s permit but not being allowed to climb into the full disaster to buckle up and go for a spin. Or having a designer need to have a licensed architect sign off on an architectural drawing in order to make it an architectural design.
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Dracula’s Castle’s Giving COVID Shots: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
If you’d like to combine getting away with getting inoculated, good news: according to CBS News, Dracula’s castle—or at least the Romanian mansion thought to have figured in Bram Stoker’s original gothic novel—is now offering free COVID-19 vaccinations for another three days.
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Six New Warm-Weather Activities Await You!
1. SPF-A-RAMA: A three-day outdoor rock concert co-sponsored by Coppertone and the California Melanoma Research Institute. Promoters will announce details once they find out which three days in a row will be the hottest and whether Death Valley is viable as a venue. Alternate sites include Phoenix, Palm Springs and regional burn centers.
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Meet Otto Correct, the Bane of Smartphones
Ever since my surname was “corrected” to Goddamn, I’ve had issues with the invisible smartphone prankster I call Otto Correct. Here are some examples of hypothetical texts and how Otto might have corrected them.
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Dinner Time Can Be As Transactional as Situational
Is there a certain age at which our bodies demand they be fed on Midwest time? I’m mostly serious (and the other 60 percent is water, as we know from Biology 101.)
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Reactions to the COVID-19 Vax Differ Widely. Duh.
If you’ve submitted to one or two anti-COVID vaccinations, you’ve probably had one or more of these reactions:
1. Zero discomfort of any sort.
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