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]."...
Our Declining Language (part 20 in an endless series)
As regular readers of The Weekly Curmudgeon will know, I periodically offer photographic evidence of America's rapidly plummeting...
It's Getting Old
There’s rather a long list of things that let me know I’ve become old. There’s the sudden onset of random pains that vanish as quickly as...
Vote Anyway
Week after week, your Curmudgeon fights nobly against an oh-so-powerful temptation to write about national politics. I resist, not...
Do Not Read if Allergic
There are, believe it or not, a couple of things with which I agree within the stated Republican philosophy. In particular, I like very...
Just Because You Can . . .
When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, the English mountaineer George Mallory (1886-1924) famously responded, “Because it is...
Our Declining Language (part 19 in an endless series) - Menu Edition
It used to be one could dine out without needing the skills of a translator. Back then, menus would be carefully proofread, lest sloppy...
He's Got Mail
Earlier this week, I received a lovely message of encouragement via the official Weekly Curmudgeon mailbox. Now, your Curmudgeon doesn’t...
