(This was pieced together from scribblings on several crumpled scraps of paper, cable bill remittance envelopes, law suit cover letters and hair product disclaimer literature found strewn around the recycle dumpster at the back of the White House. I have taken the liberty to correct some of the grammar and…
Those of us lucky enough not to have been born with life-threatening conditions, have had an extended pass from looking mortality in the face. Many of us have embraced the can’t-get-me philosophy of our misguided youth, taking unnecessary chances for little reason and usually less reward. But, in spite of…
Congratulations! We at 23 & Me are happy to report that we have successfully analyzed your DNA. We apologize for the need of a second sample, but after careful scrutiny, our lab determined that your first submission was, indeed, a swab of the exterior, (we thought “interior” was more than…
I apologize to anyone who turns to my blog for information, or a whimsical bon mot to interject around the water cooler, (are there still water coolers?), or the correct syntax and appropriate usage of foul, (see Huffington’s “Rules of Allowable Vocabulary for Sponsor-supported Posts”), language when you just can’t…
To be sure, there are tabloid-headlined cults and vampire-esque, antisocially behavioral anomalies, perhaps an invisible-dog-whispered cannibalistic minion or two, but the evolution of human civilization has, at both its mythological and historical core, a deep tap root into the concept and expectation of kindness. It appears in almost every communicated…