Heavy Burden

I love Slate’s reviews: best small grill, great beach chairs, and, not that I’m in the market, but I don’t like where the industry is going, appropriate tween attire.  This week’s review explores uncharted territory, and one that I will not see for a very long time–adult diapers.
Slate’s current issue is about Geezers (their title, [...]

Voice Of America

It could be P Diddy, aka, Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, aka, insert other as necessary.
Anyway, P Diddy is video blogging and, amazingly, P Diddy does not lambaste having to associate with us mere mortals (he actually loves us!), but goes off about gas prices!.
Gas prices are so high, P Diddy is now flying commercial, [...]

Holy Toledo!

It’s July!
Unbelievable! And a fun factoid for everyone, today we are officially halfway through 2008–183 days down, 183 days to go.
Since it is July 1st, that can only mean July 4th is a few days away. Nothing makes me feel more American, and proud of it, than eating copious amounts of beef, drinking mass [...]

Summertime Blues

Vacations are becoming antiques. As Steven Greenhouse writes in this Slate article, fewer and fewer Americans are taking vacations because even if they stop, work never does.
I understand that being in a global economy means that people are constantly communicating with each other. But if we’re all connected, how can Europeans afford 38-28 [...]