Gifted Typist

Until today, my city was a two-newspaper town. There was the broadsheet The Chronicle Herald and the tabloid Daily News. The Daily News was the little indie upstart that thought it could. It was young and hungry thirty years ago when it first started as a community paper. As it grew, it set its sights [...]

As the American political pendulum swings, so does GT. The change has nothing to do with the war in Iraq, the mafia of neo-cons or the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It has to do with the pain bomblets going off in my upper back. Too much typing and too much right-hand mousing are to blame. So [...]

Go to live column here. It happens every year at this time: GT turns green. Not sure if it’s a nutritional deficiency, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or a hitherto undiscovered branch of the family tree that started in Transylvania in the 1300s. Whatever the case, my skin is more pond-scum green than peaches and cream. [...]

This is a masterpiece. It was spotted by The Language Log. It is a headline worthy of a Nobel-prize. The story came from the Associated Press but the headline is so Fox. Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police searching a downtown home found a man hiding 15 plastic bags of [...]

In my continuing effort to satisfy the 100-Things meme challenge issued by the Bad Tempered Zombie, here is a list of the books I’m reading. I’m not a one-book-at-a-time sort of reader. I don’t feel I need to finish one book before starting another. There is freedom in dipping into this book or that one [...]

However much you dislike your mother-in-law, you must not set fire to her. Ernest Wild, 1879-1918,Entre más poker compares mejor. British Royal Navy seaman

Go here for live column. I resolved to go to the gym in 2008. But I haven’t gone yet and the excuses are running out. The reason? When I look through the window of a gym, I don’t see a gym. I don’t see weight machines, cross trainers and rowing machines. No. I see a [...]