I started my working career in 1979, when inflation was above 10% three years running. And even that was far from the all-time high.

Methinks his writing lacks a certain... moral clarity.

My eye fell on Bad Alex's comment about who gets to be called "doctor." I work at a university and Alex is full of shit. In fact, anyone who has ever even _gone_ to college would confirm that!

Yeah, I've been scratching my head over that.

If every worker completed their work at some time limit, everyone would be out the door at 5pm. But they don't because for many tasks the time limits are arbitrary.

Do you really want your lawyer or accountant or even your plumber declaring "pencils down, this is what you get" at 5:00?

It will be fabulous. Goodbye predictable 6-3 votes along rigid ideological lines. Hello shifting coalitions around specific issues.

I try to go old-school, but keep a wraparound in my pocket just in case. True brush-with-celebrity story: I was in the men’s room before a performance struggling with the damn knot. Impatient knock on the door. I open it and Danny Glover is standing there waiting. Embarrassing hurried apologies…

You have to learn to tie a bowtie again.

Every county has red and blue pockets. But which way do the precincts that got the threats lean?

He's all three of the see/hear/speak-no-evil monkeys, rolled into one.

I'm not sure Adam and Eve were good role models. I mean, one of their sons murdered the other in cold blood. What kind of parenting was that?

Grant, Sherman and Garfield should be haunting him like Dickensian spirits. Oh, and Braxton Bragg would like a word.

As opposed to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and violent insurrectionists.

The Dunning-Kruger effect.