Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth. Obviously, this brilliant quote from Iron Mike works both literally and figuratively. But it's a great and timely…
There's this regional bank in my, uh, region that uses the tagline: The curious bank. Every time I see it, though, I read curious as strange: The strange bank. I…
First of all, let's answer the most obvious question: Yes, I was at the gym. I go to the gym sometimes. You don't get pythons like this by just sitting…
I don't usually indulge in peevery, but I’m making an exception here. Just a small fraction came up at work the other day, and I removed the word small, which…
Aw, man. Get this: I'm at work, and a writer used conundrum in a way that didn't feel right, so I looked it up. co·nun·drum: noun. 1. : a riddle whose…
Pretty disappointed today in my editing brethren after the Associated Press' bombshell that it will no longer make the distinction between more than and over. If Facebook and Twitter are…
Most sports fans have a favorite team and a backup. Sometimes the backup team's from a favorite city. Or maybe if your favorite team is in the Eastern Conference, for…
As I've said before, some misspellings are worse than others. And in this case, of all the words to misspell on this commemorative coin, you really couldn't have picked a…
I don’t drink Jagermeister anymore, mostly because nothing good ever happened to me when I was drinking Jagermeister. And also because I’m not 20 years old. But I saw a…
Again with something I didn't know. In fact, I'm starting to think that the list of things I don't know is getting longer. Anyway, I'm reading about the NSA wanting…