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Here’s What Sports Fans Do When Sports Are Canceled

American law schools sponsor over 200 law reviews: dense collections of grim, wooden prose, groaning with footnotes. (Chief Justice John Roberts... Read More

Nowhere Else to Go But Up

Life comes at you fast. Two months ago, the Dow was flirting with 30,000, unemployment was at 3.5%, and the economy was looking forward to spring... Read More

Don’t Count Your Chickens…

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. It gave us a great opportunity to indulge in the sort of lowbrow... Read More

Something to Celebrate

Our calendar is full of "Hallmark holidays": meaningless commemorations and celebrations, usually created by marketers and publicists. Just this... Read More

The Great Toilet Paper Wipe-out of 2020

Coronavirus has turned millions of Americans who used to laugh at the doomsday preppers on National Geographic into converts. Your neighborhood... Read More

NOT an April Fools Joke

Millions of us who are staying at home in this time of coronavirus are discovering to our dismay just how much the clown car of halfwits, freaks,... Read More

Dig This

The Cambridge Dictionary defines "digging your own grave" to mean doing "something that causes you harm, sometimes serious harm." Kids who don't do... Read More

Stream of Tax-iousness

If you're like most Americans, coronavirus quarantines and "social distancing" mean you're going to spend a lot of time in front of your... Read More

If Only They Had An Oscar For This!

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, who died this month, played nearly every role in his career: actor, director, producer, and writer. He was born... Read More

The Twelve Days of Taxmas

Every year, PNC Bank publishes their "Christmas Price Index" to track the cost of the Twelve Days of Christmas. For 2019, it's a hefty... Read More