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"Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky,...

My Siri has served me quite well. I have always loved my Siri. I have at least always loved the IDEA of my Siri. But that's in the pa...

I don't think I ever mentioned this, but I have a major aversion to receiving mass e-mails. E-mails for which I am not the sole recipie...

Several months ago, in L.A., I had dinner with a couple of guys I knew in college. One, a good friend, who is an avid reader of my blog, an...

Quite a few months ago, I wrote an article here called "The Saga Of Ticky Tock". Here is essentially what I wrote: Woody Guthri...

The actor Don Keefer died the other day, at the age of 98. Nice run. He had a huge list of TV credits, usually playing a rather amiable we...

Beat the Clock (1950–1961, 1969–1974, 1979–1980) The Better Sex (1977–1978) Blade Rider Blockbusters (1980–1982, 1987) Branded (1965–196...

Polly Bergen died this past week. She was an enormously attractive and talented woman. I'm sure most of you know who she was. But the...

Picking up from last time: If you want to sleep in, make sure that you put the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, so you can pro...

My wife and I are in Chicago, staying at a hotel, and living out of suitcases. This is a condition that will last for several weeks. I wil...

This leaves me open to exclude "Please don't squeeze the Charmin." Not that I necessarily need to. This one is probably wors...

So this second video of Ray Rice beating up his wife has turned up. This time, from inside the elevator. And he clearly knocks her out wit...

Okay. So since I put up my last article on Tuesday, Joan Rivers has died. I did have some serious misgivings about posting the article in ...

Joan Rivers has been nothing but an amazingly talented woman. Well, not nothing. Her standup is great. Her acting ability is superb. She...

There has been a lot in the news this week about the Knee Defender. For the wildly uninformed, the Knee Defender is a device that you bring...

I thought they were just swell. Sweller than swell. Maybe the best Emmy Awards Shows ever done. One of the best Award Shows ever done. C...

Check out this list of very, very popular songs of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s: "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" (Big hit for Dea...

I usually try to avoid to avoid politics around these here parts, but with the fortieth anniversary of Watergate, and all the attending publ...

Thinking about "Clifford", the movie I referred to last time, that I walked out on, after paying good money to see it, in which Ch...

I almost never pay good money to see any movie. At the movies, or pay-per-view at home. Of course, I exclude Netflix and pay cable, like H...