The lilting strains of George and Ira Gershwin’s perfect love song have filled my head this week – updated to reflect the new language of our times. Things have changed since 1935; our legislative bodies now define us by our body parts. We body parts should probably start playing...
What were they thinking?
Booby Traps
Join me here in astonishment! I am about to defend the Barbie doll. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to do so. But flexibility keeps us young; we need agile limbs and limber attitudes to handle those hard inflexible bumps in the road of life — like...
The Covenant at ARC
I larked to my favorite thrift store last week to search for some perfect garment that would change my life and fortune and bring me ultimate happiness, all for less than $20. It’s the seeking that matters, after all, not the finding. I generally get a lot of pleasure...
Words, the Word, and Wanton Wrongdoing
I was leafing through an expensive exclusive clothing catalogue today, lusting after things I can’t remotely afford and fighting the urge to start feeling sorry for myself. They tell me that I can choose my feelings as carefully as I choose my words, that I can choose to refuse...
tl;dr
I discovered this abbreviation this morning in an article about a British 17-year-old who just sold an “automatic article summarization algorithm” to Yahoo for some thirty million dollars. When I was 17, I was earning 50 cents an hour as a babysitter, work that included washing dirty dishes that...