How does a person get two first names like Ron Paul? Better yet, how does a family get a first name as its last name (The Paul’s). Did some ancestor, with a name like Paul Wackowitch, just drop his last name and start using his first name as his last name. I […]

My biggest complaint is about people who start their emails to the listserv apologizing for cross posting.
Some of you might think my complaint is about them actually cross posting, but it’s NOT. If you want to post the same email to two completely separate listservs, it is not in poor form. […]

We all know O.J. killed Ron and Nicole. He knows it. He even wrote that book. What was it called, “I did it” or something brilliant like that. There’s a guy that needs money. He wrote a book telling people how he killed his wife, after his lawyer kept him […]

Managers and administrators use the expression, “it’s lonely at the top,” in several ways. One is to suggest that they are in charge and nobody else is. I really don’t have any problem with that usage, as long as they are really at the top and nobody else is. But administrators and […]

The expression, “we’re pregnant” has become firmly entrenched in the American vernacular. I can’t quite figure out if people who use it are confused about the proper use of pronouns, or are misinformed about how humans procreate, or are trying to include men in the pregnancy process for whatever reasons. […]

What is up with people who’s idea of a Facebook picture is finding and old photo where they think they look good, but are standing next to somebody else, and then cropping the other person out. I can hear them now, “I look TOTALLY HOT in that picture of me and such-and-such. I’m […]