Just Not Said

Was just rereading parts of Hooking Up , Tom Wolfe's great collection of essays, published in 2000. On page 117, this quote, from Marsha...

A friend recently pointed out that the fictional character Francis Underwood would have to be a sociopath to do the things he did in House o...

A friend forwarded this cartoon the other day: It's by Dixon Diaz, whom I'm not familiar with. I don't know how much play t...

Every Sunday the New York Times carries a long-than-usual wedding announcement, which incorporates a story about how the couple met and when...

Leo DiCaprio was in the news two days ago for having taken a private jet to fly from Cannes to New York and back in order to accept an awar...

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have high negative ratings from sizable percentages of the electorate. This is due to the various cont...

I was watching one of those survival shows on TV the other night. This one was set in Alaska, with a number of people placed in different co...

The recent posts about Frances Lear, upon whom the television character Maude was based , and Susan Sarandon and her dysfunctional backgroun...

I understand the romance of alcohol: the world is a more appealing place when you're drunk . Every drink you have may temporarily lower ...

I was talking to a friend the other evening. He explained to me that he turns 54 in June and is a year away from aging up for the Crash B...

Reading about the recent Bill de Blasio scandal in New York City reminded me of my vague impression that while Republicans are more likely ...

One of the most striking things about that list from two posts ago of the top 25 most prolific serial killers is that four of them were nurs...

An openly gay black pastor, Jordan Brown, recently claimed that after he ordered a cake with icing spelling out "Love Wins," he...

Here's a list, from Ranker , of the most prolific serial killers in the US; I've indicated which of the killers are gay: 1. Gary R...

Recently I've been getting emails for a class reunion for a boarding school I attended for one year in Japan, from 1967 to 1968. The m...

I was resting at the end of a lap pool between repeats the other day. A young man and woman, roughly college-aged, were in the next lane. Th...

On November 2, 2015, to great fanfare, Obama signed an executive order banning the box . In case you're unfamiliar with that particular ...

If you make a lame joke, and you're among friends, chances are that one of them will point that out. Maybe they'll say "ha ha...

A friend forwarded this video . It's less than a minute long, and quite amusing.

In August of 2014 I analyzed one of the most moronic and annoying arguments people use: "Who are you to say [such-and-such]?" A...