Opinion

This time of year, you’ll see a lot of commercials from car companies … You know, it’s Christmas morning and mom/dad/wife/husband hands their child/spouse a small wrapped gift box with a key inside and outside is a brand new Hyundai with a ribbon on it. And it’s snowing. And they’re…

If you haven’t seen the video of our president flat-leaving his Argentinian counterpart on the stage at this year’s G20 thingamajig, you really should. It’s probably the only worthwhile thing Trump has done in office. If for no other reason, it’s hilarious. The two shake hands, smile a bit and…

Several years ago, I wrote a column for Submerge asking readers to email me if they needed any advice on life, love, work, education, politics, religion, sex, music, art, food or whatever. I promptly lost my password to that email account; so, if you sent questions, I never got them…

Did you know that there is another holiday between Halloween and Christmas? It’s called Thanksgiving, and it happens every year on the day before Black Friday. I don’t blame you for forgetting; the stores all went from costumes and candy to Christmas trees, reindeer and Santa overnight. I guess they…

Good News: If you had 2018 in your Apocalypse pool, it looks like you might be looking at a big cash windfall. Unfortunately, though, once society collapses, all that money will be rendered useless. If you act fast, maybe you’ll be able to use your winnings to nab bottles of…

If you have been on the internet lately, then you know that the only way we, as a public, can absorb information is in list form. This must be the case, since every news and entertainment site I go to is chock-full of lists. These lists don’t have to mean…

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been riveted by the saga of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who ventured into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 and was never seen or heard from again. Khashoggi was a former Saudi government insider, whose writings had been…

I was a mischievous child. I grew up in a town that did not offer things for its teenagers to do at night or on the weekends, so we had to make our own fun. Usually, that meant trouble and by trouble, I mean property damage. Eggs and toilet paper…

They say it’s a real blessing to have a child. “What wonderful news!” they say when you tell them a baby is on the way. Then you have the baby and the truth of the matter smacks you right across the face. What’s so great about this baby? It sleeps…

It’s been difficult finding reason to smile the past two weeks. I caught up with an old friend this weekend, and he said that he doesn’t watch HBO’s Last Week Tonight even though he thinks host John Oliver is funny and brilliant. He said, “There’s nothing funny about the state…