and wants to be reunited with the owner. If you own a red water bottle with Hello Kitty on it, she spent the night in the lonely ops department in my cube. I think I see tears, but cannot be sure….She is waiting to be rescued. ------A.V. ---------------------------------The above was an e-mail tha...

You know, I really should be a gentleman, and not gloat about the French soccer defeat several hours ago. They fought manfully, and delivered a splendid game. On the other hand, I am extremely petty (!), and schadenfreude is a talent.So here goes: Netherlands trounces France http://www.canada.com/wi...

We smokers, when we're not trying to kill your children with our cancer-causing fumes and effluvia, or nauseate your delicate stomachs, or blacken the innocent lungs of people five counties over, are a potentially violent bunch of over-indulgers, profligates, and orgiasts. Nay, veritable brigands, r...

Yours truly requests credit reports on businesses. It's a fairly standard thing to do - nothing unusual. I'm paid to be a snoop. So are the companies that put together commercial credit reports. Commercial customers have their credit researched. Normal. Sometimes the credit report isn't worth the pa...

I am in receipt of an e-mail that brings a smile to my face. Partly because of an orthographic element - double vowels are used a lot in Dutch, and Dutch is the first language I learned to read and write - and partly because the message itself is just so darned funny. Made much more so by the orthog...