Monthly Archives: September 2018

Free Lunch

Sometimes clickbait works on me. A month or so ago, I clicked through on a headline that said something like “Crazy Stories of Getting Revenge on Coworkers Who Steal Lunches!” There were a dozen or so stories about putting laxatives … Continue reading

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Steff for SCOTUS

A Yale yearbook; a movie villain Brett Kavanaugh is almost exactly 6½ years older than I am. Looking at his Wikipedia page, it is possible to infer that he graduated from high school in 1983. His publicly available biography reads … Continue reading

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They Fly

Originally published September 11, 2018 View of downtown Cleveland from https://allthingsclevelandohio.blogspot.com/. The one in the middle of the cluster on the left was my office.  Today is Tuesday. Seventeen years ago this date also fell on a Tuesday. I was coming … Continue reading

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Caucastrophe

Originally published September 3, Labor Day, 2018 Jacob Riis picture of children playing in an American street, near a dead horse Happy Labor Day people. Especially the 2MM+ civilian federal employees who (according to the Tweet Fuhrer) don’t deserve a … Continue reading

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