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Today is not St. Patrick’s Day. When March 17th falls during Holy Week, the Catholic church will move St. Patrick’s day. This year St. Patrick’s day was moved to March 15.
Yes, it’s a personality flaw that I feel the need to point out things like this. No, I don’t believe anyone actually cares [...]

It seems impossible to avoid getting calls from telemarketers. My phone number is on the do not call list. I don’t give out my phone number to any business that really doesn’t need it, yet I still end up getting between five and seven calls from telemarketers every night. My wife and I usually screen [...]

I think it’s desperation that leads me to write about such mundane topics, but I have a theory that if I just keep writing badly my muse will find me and put an end to end. So…
I plugged in my iPod today and was greeted with a pleasant error message, “iTunes has detected an iPod [...]

I was at the Braves game today and as I was walking back to my car there were guys selling beverages out of coolers along the sidewalks to the parking lots. Each of them was tempting passers-by with a product they claimed to be ice cold. Now, many liquids have freezing points well below that [...]

pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
I’ve developed a pet peeve recently. It involves mostly sports commentators, but plenty of other people, including business managers, who are keen on adopting phrases from sports commentators. It is the use of the phrase “question mark” to denote an unknown. Such as [...]