The Wizards were down by like 32 points last night, and I was watching old NBA highlights, as I, an extremely old…

Probably nothing anyone does at this point stands more than a remote chance of averting any but the very most extreme,…

Okay. Okay. So. An ugly and kind of dumb but real thing that sometimes happens in the life of a more-or-less normal…

It has been a rough year for my five little holly trees, transplanted last spring from a nursery to the muddy, weedy…

It’s more or less springlike now, pending yet another cruel and absurd outbreak of The Eternal Winter of 2017-18. Here…

Listen. I am old. And one of the things that happened along my way to becoming old was that I recognized, and even came…

A lie I tell myself with dismal regularity is Ugh, fuck, I am too tired and burned out to tidy up tonight, I’ll do it…

No one ever—I checked; it literally has never happened—has gone, “Dang, if only I had not pickled some foodstuffs.”…

Everybody likes roasting a marshmallow over a campfire or fire pit, the best of autumn’s fire-related food activities.…

There are too many shows on TV. Too many shows! Who can watch all of these shows? I can’t watch all of these shows.

Apparently many of the youths are very excited about a “solar eclipse” today. The moon’s transit will carry it directly…

I am fed up with things taking so damn long. Everything takes too long! Hurry it up for chrissakes.

Via the Washington Post, I have learned of a study by the Journal of Hand Therapy showing that millennial men are a…

My smart colleague George Dvorsky over at Gizmodo published a defense of “radical life extension” this morning. This is…