The bank representative, the fourth person I have spoken to after getting disconnected from the supervisor, comes on the line. I quickly swallow the bite of my turkey sandwich ( Read more... )

I don’t understand why some view picky eaters like me in a negative light. I prefer to think of myself as discerning. I won’t just shovel any old crap down my gullet ( Read more... )

I have been looking everywhere for plug-in electric candles for our windows and have had no luck. We have a few but I need more for the additional windows. I’ve tried Target, the Christmas Tree store, the dollar store, Lowe’s, supermarkets, etc. Nowhere. I don’t want the kind that run on batteries or have LEDs. I just want cheap, old-fashioned, ( Read more... )

The new Jessica Jones Netflix show is great! We’ve only seen a few episodes but I’m very much enjoying this darker series as sort of a complement to the gritty Daredevil. Krysten Ritter shows some of the dismissive snark I enjoyed in Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23 and does quite well portraying a woman trying to overcome her past trauma while helping ( Read more... )

Well, that half-season ended abruptly. As the cast makes its way through the zombie herd in their gross disguises, the one kid notices something offscreen. He tries to get his mother’s attention and then we cut to black. We’ll have to wait until after the holidays to find out what was happening. Steve is familiar with the Walking Dead comics and ( Read more... )

I knew Glenn was dead. This was not because I am good at predicting plot twists on TV because I never see anything coming. I knew because I went to a non-entertainment website and the first headline I saw at the top of the page was “Glenn is alive.” Thanx. Was it really so hard to wait more than 12 hours to spoil it? Some of us are too old to stay ( Read more... )

In looking at the terror attacks in Paris and in trying to prevent future ISIS attacks around the world, we must face hard truths. It’s not pretty but we must recognize and ask hard questions about the one demographic group these terrorists belonged to ( Read more... )

If you heard recently that the people at the Oxford dictionary have named the word of the year to be an emoji of a yellow face that is crying while laughing and were expecting me to react in an indignant manner, you were absolutely right ( Read more... )

At a conference room somewhere in, let’s say Kansas City, the Republican presidential candidates meet with anchors and producers from CNBC to hammer out the terms for their next debate.

Anchor: OK, for the first question, I was thinking we could ask one about ISIS. Something like, “What specific examples can you provide of the strategies you ( Read more... )

Darryl just does not have good luck making friends in the woods. First he falls in with those homicidal bikers and now he meets a bunch of weirdoes who steal his crossbow. This is what Darryl gets after being a decent person and bringing back their insulin? These three people don’t know how lucky they are to have met an old softie like Darryl: ( Read more... )