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New: 1. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle 2. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) 3. The Unquiet (shor...

The other day, I had a day where I felt like I got nothing done.  I kept falling down the internet rabbit hole and getting caught up in gami...

From a New Yorker profile of Weird Al : With his parodic versions of hit songs, this somehow ageless fifty-four-year-old has become popul...

With Robin Williams's death in the news, we're seeing a reinvigoration of the notion that if you're feeling depressed or suicida...

Normally when someone commits suicide and the people left behind say "He had so much to live for," they mean normal regular every...

I have contacted Rob Ford in my capacity as a citizen and his capacity as mayor, and not only did he not address the issues I raised, he did...

I have an excellent productivity system when I'm working at home: after producing a certain quantity of work (the quantity depends on th...

This year I've seen quite a few young women, especially teenagers,wearing high-waisted pants with loose shirts tucked in.  This surprise...

New: 1. Love and Forgetting: A husband and wife's journey through dementia by Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol 2. The Little Prince...

There was recently a story in the news where a walk-in clinic doctor wouldn't prescribe birth control because he had moral objections t...

I'm looking for a word or phrase to express the concept of going straight to boldly/almost-but-not-quite aggressively asserting your rig...

I recently bought two packages of Jockey Elance French Cut panties, which is the closest I've been able to find to my late lamented old ...

Just over a year ago, I bought a paper shredder. (Brand name Rosewill, from Newegg.)  Just days after the one-year warranty expired, the shr...

There was recently a story in the news about a 17-year-old boy who sent sexually explicit photos to his 15-year-old girlfriend, and as a re...

Lately, there have been quite a few articles in the media saying that bees are dying out because of pesticide use, with the general thesis t...

I've been reading Love and Forgetting: A husband and wife's journey through dementia by Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol, which te...

New: 1. The Master of All Desires by Judith Merkle Riley 2. Mary Poppins, She Wrote by Valerie Lawson 3. Life Below Stairs: Domestic Se...

From this week's Savage Love: My husband and I have been happy swingers for four years. Our issue? I'm pregnant. My husband had...

I should be happy about my library's automatic return system, since it's yet another example of one of my inventions materializing ...