Fight Night in Richfield OK, so the Twins aren’t playing in the post-season. And a Richfield Champ’s certainly isn’t a statistically valid sample. But, it does say something when 18 out of 20 TV’s there were tuned to ultimate fighting tonight, and only one to the American League championship series between the New York Yankees and Detroit...Read More
Once upon a time, “hand-me-down’s” invariably meant clothes or toys. Today, with more technology devices, evolving faster and faster, “hand-me-down” as often as not refers to technology. So, in my family, an older iPod will go from an older child to a younger one; I will get the “latest-and-greatest” smart phone and a year later...Read More
Jay Leno “Headlines” My favorite bit from Leno’s “Headlines” segment last Monday: the picture of a “For Sale” home with a banner headline “Reduded!” prominently displayed above it. According to Leno, at least, that’s what you call a home occupied by a “dude,” that then got a full makeover. “Dude,” Defined Which recalls one of the funnier stand-up...Read More
What can you use push pins for? To hold up a container full of push pins (of course!), on the bulletin board pictured above. Kudos to my (almost) 10 year-old son for coming up with that one. P.S: My runner-up sight gag is this graph, titled — what else? — “Number of Graphs Drawn Since 1945.”Read More
I suppose that would be in contrast to the “expectedly” romantic cities — presumably, places like San Francisco, Manhattan, and Niagara Falls (is that a city??). P.S.: I didn’t take the photo (above) of the Stone Arch Bridge spanning the Mississippi — but I paid for it (sort of). It was taken by the (taxpayer-supported) Minnesota Department of...Read More
Define, “Enervate” (Ahem, Ahem) “Mr. Obama’s goal, it seems, was to indicate his continued willingness to serve in a job he believes he can do better than the other guy, but that doesn’t really seem to enervate or enliven him. That’s a problem, and not only for the duration of the campaign.” –Matt Bai, “Obama’s...Read More
