In this week's episode, Rachel and I discuss income as a determining factor in dating, the ridiculousness of mansplaining, and our thoughts on the new restaurant Tallywackers and public nudity.…
Firemen became firefighters. A great improvement. I'd rather be a firefighter than a fireman. A stewardess became a flight attendant. Also an improvement. Policemen became police officers. A solid choice.…
Protip: If you're using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, don't forget to stone to death any woman engaging in premarital sex. And not just your…
My friend and podcast host Rachel was recently told me about a recommendation she received about the joy of drinking a glass of bourbon while in the shower. This is,…
Clara tells me that she doesn't like Donald Trump. She says that she heard him say mean things to "a lady named Megyn Kelly" on CBS Sunday Morning."Megyn asked a…
Marlow Stern of The Daily Beast - in writing about Bill Maher's recent criticism of the charge of battery against's Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, says: “Maher’s defense of Lewandowski…
Back in January, Mike Pesca of Slate's The Gist discussed some of his favorite sentences of 2015. When Pesca attributed the sentence to someone., I included the attribution. Bill Raftery on…
On the same day my wife told me she wanted to be a fashion designer when she was a little girl but no longer has that same passion, she made…
I've heard this idiom spoken both ways: "Play your cards close to the vest." "Play your cards close to the chest." So I wondered: Which of these is correct? The…
My column in the spring 2016 edition of Seasons is now available online. I write "Last Word," the humor column on the back page of the magazine. This month I…
