Unless the aliens landed before noon Tuesday and he donned his old flight suit, jumped into the cockpit of an F-14 conveniently parked on the White House lawn, kept fueled up and with rockets armed for eight years for just such an emergency, and flew off into the skies to shoot down all the flying s...

You probably know the type.  Character in the office, around the neighborhood, in your family who manages to involve everybody around them in their personal dramas? Usually it's the case that all they want is to talk about it.  They don't even want you to listen, just sit there and pretend...

Now and again, I've given into the temptation to write about my old girlfriends here. As if you're interested. I probably should keep my romantic past to myself.  As Bertie Wooster says, a gentleman does not bandy names.  But I'm sentimental and I'm nostalgic and, frankly...

The twelve year old is dealing with a crisis in his Sims 2 game. One of his Sims has cheated on his wife. Not a surprise, of course, the twelve year old informs me.  The philandering Sim is a Romance Sim.  Sims are driven by their needs but also by their aspirations.  Some Sims aspire...

With this post and yesterday's I'm worried I might be in danger of being suspected of closet feminism. I've said it before.  I'm not a feminist.  I barely count as halfway enlightened.  I am often quite cheerfully sexist.  But I'm also a devout democrat.  Note the small d.&n...