I caught a cold last week from the woman in 7B. You rarely get to single out Typhoid Mary, but I’d seen her in the terminal before boarding, coughing brazenly into the open air, making no move ...
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My company changed retirement plans recently, and I have to give credit where it’s due: It is now much, much easier to track the losses in my 401(k) than it used to be. Not only can I watch my future ...
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Read More »Why your postman gets cranky at this time of year
It’s catalog season! Time for retailers to test our monetary mettle, and lower backs, with page upon page of product, alluringly posed, painstakingly photographed, then printed on the cheesiest paper known to man. Already the major direct mailers are tempting ...
Read More »Too little, too late for everything that’s too big to fail
First we had banks too big to fail, then Wall Street paychecks too big to swallow. Now comes word that there are entire companies out there that Washington thinks are, well, yes, just too damn big for their own good. ...
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Read More »In flu season, only one way to avoid feeling flushed
An old joke on the rivalry between the military services: An Army guy and a Marine are in the restroom. When they’re finished, the Marine stops at the sink, but the soldier heads straight for the door. Leatherneck: “In the ...
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Read More »Pause here, and appreciate the history of punctuation
I was traveling last week and missed the deadline for the first annual National Punctuation Day Baking Contest, in which contestants were to bake something in the shape of a punctuation mark and send it to National Punctuation Day headquarters ...
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