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From an inter-office e-memo sent (and received) on April 23: Christmas cards and other types of greeting cards should not be sent from on...

Open Table last week sent me a confirmation of a restaurant reservation.  It included the instruction that we would be cancelled "u...

The staff and management here at Underbelly Central take pride in their conviction that theirs is the only first-class weblog to measure pe...

Joel suggests that the Davos powwow is Ted Talks for rich guys.  Maybe, but I thought Davos was about exchanging business cards and schmooz...

My friend the Crank is a-flutter over the fact that Kindle readers appear to be sopping up Mein Kampf .  Apparently part of the point is t...

It's 12:12 12/13/13 Hat tip, Sally.

You cut a thee dimensional watermelon, you get a two-dimensional ellipse.  You cut a four dimensional ellipse, you get a three-dimension...

PDX, 7 am.  Looks more like a 19c train station than any other airport I know. Or is it a Van Gogh "Starry Night"?

This is kind of ancient history but it came up in conversation today so I might as well get some mileage out of it. Anyway--back in the 90...

I will arise and go now, And go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, Of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have t...

Grand Canyon Cake: Update:   yes, very educational,   The White Trash Cookbook instructs (I quote from memory): add a different food co...

I share the general covert sniggering about the, ahem, unfortunate public "naming" of the Asiana pilots earlier today. I see the...

The Wichita bureau makes the headline catch of the day: Spam Doubles as Bull Market Returns Oh, tee hee, oink oink.  [Brings to mind...

Mrs. Buce hied me off to Best Buy this morning with a refractory Ipad.  I there acquired the services of an intelligent youngster who spent...

Isn't there a national security exception for the second amendment?  Or enemy combatant status for the guy who ran the Texas fertilizer...

There's an episode of Cheers where the entertainment at the accountant's party is the guy who can recite all the telephone area co...

Bumper sticker: Kind of Famous at Burning Tree

And here I thought I was kidding: just last Friday I suggested that they might try delivering our Sunday paper by drone.  Turns out in in ...

My friend Larry wrote a novel called When the Sacred Ginmill Closes .  Now this: #FailedNoir When The Sacred Windmill Closes @ lawrence...

First as tragedy, then as irony?