According to a recent headline in the Sacramento Business Journal—I wrote a daily column there for eight years yet it continues to publish—”Country clubs and golf courses are at a pivot point. Will subscriptions change the game?”

One of my favorite episodes of “The Sopranos,” the New Jersey gangster classic, is when local mob boss Tony Soprano dashes to his home ahead of the FBI to find and re-hide the thousands and thousands of dollars he’s been stashing there for years.

Venice—the one they keep in Italy, not Southern California—has a problem that cities around the world might envy: “over-tourism,” as one local official told the New York Times.

Face it: The self-driving car was never the equal of a self-cleaning oven. While both could cause you serious harm, odds are good that the self-cleaning oven would never veer suddenly in your kitchen and fatally collide with, say, your dishwasher.

Even though insurance companies are compulsive gamblers, I have to admit they “know when to hold ‘em/Know when to fold ‘em,” as that Kenny Rogers song (written by Don Schlitz) has it.

Starting soon, many of us will make plans to attend our high school reunions. Simultaneously, the word “Why?” may begin to dominate our thinking.

Stephen Colbert did a screamingly funny pantomime on his Late Show recently.

While it’s probably premature to announce that my decades-long love affair with automobiles is kaput, my own car and I are currently undergoing a trial separation.

“We live all around the world,” says Diane Tobin about the Jewish people, “so why not embrace that?”

According to CBS News, “Actors at Disneyland who perform as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as other costumed characters at the California theme park, said Tuesday they are moving to form a union.”

Have you ever taken a couples survey? There seems to be one targeted for every age, starting with adolescence and marching relentlessly through to senescence.

The death of O.J. Simpson last week unleashed a few snapchat-like memories for me. Those are the kind that last only a few seconds—and when you consider the content, even that can sometimes seem too long.