Guest Curmudgeon: Reading is Fundamental
This week's curmudgeoning duties have been taken over by a friend who is affectionately known within her circle as The Queen of Snark....
Telephone Extension
I have often bemoaned herein the erosion of social niceties that are being abandoned in favor of needless speed—the constant abbreviating...
Our Declining Language (part 21 in an endless series)
The saga continues. I express special thanks this week to the many tattletale readers who sent in their own contributions to my...
Death and Fruit
Well, fellow curmudgeons, I’m feeling a little more grouchy than usual this week, and I know why. Halloween—easily the silliest, most...
That Time I Didn't Have the Flu
A few weeks ago, I could have sworn I had the flu. The symptoms were certainly reminiscent of the flu. All I could do for days was sleep,...
Guest Curmudgeon: The Screw of the Turn
It may seem a trivial grievance to some, but I would like to lodge a formal protest to luxury car manufacturers for failing to supply...
Tall Order
We live in remarkable times, do we not? Technology has got things moving so fast (and, on occasion, efficiently) that it’s dazzling to...
A Curmudgeon Rerun: Black Talk
"The black man in America is the most-copied man on this planet, bar none. Everybody wanna be [black], but nobody wanna be [black]."...