Scattershooting, while wondering whatever happened to….

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Read MoreFlorida is a wonderful place to visit. But I wouldn’t want to drive here.

Read MoreLet’s talk about things we should do — including things that are practical, but seemingly ridiculous. In other words, let’s discuss some crazy ideas that actually make perfect sense, but which are unlikely ever to be taken seriously let alone adopted by mainstream society.

Read MoreFollowing a jam-packed five-hour flight over the long Thanksgiving weekend, a typical flight-during-the-holidays hell that was delayed more than four hours, this photo shows the display of horror I saw upon my arrival at Fort Lauderdale International Airport. You’re looking at an empty service counter at 1:15 am. Poof! Where is everybody?

Read MoreStephen Hawking is the shocking incongruity of a scintillating mind cradled within a helpless body.

Read MoreIn her utterly embarrassing and thoroughly discredited appearance on Mike Huckabee’s FOX News program earlier this week, former Sen. Blanche Lincoln made our task way too easy. The former senator from Arkansas made so many inaccurate statements and committed such a multitude of factual blunders that conspiracy theorists might reasonably suspect she’s actually a plant working for the other side. She was that bad.

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Black Friday is the most grotesque holiday ever invented by humankind. It’s a collective manifestation of hysterical mobs and mass greed, a corporatist conspiracy designed to cattle prod America into a chaotic buying frenzy. It’s an outlandish propaganda campaign intended to cage even greater numbers of Americans deeper into debt. It’s the unscrupulous grand design of the evil axis that exists between banks, retailers, and advertisers to guarantee that the working class stays in hock up to their fucking eyeballs.

Read MoreHere’s a list of the hot topics most likely to come at Thanksgiving Dinner this year, along with my recommendations on what to say versus what not to say.

Read MoreJust in time for the holiday travel season, here’s my list of America’s best and worst major airports.

Read More“The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts….”
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)