My title paraphrases one of the best show titles of all time: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Did you know that this was in turn ripped off from an apocryphal Borscht Belt shaggy-dog joke? Well, so they say. I can’t actually find any source confirming …
I believe there are three things particularly pernicious to the health of the body politic. Outright lies by politicians. Outright cheating at the ballot box. Efforts to stifle any citizen’s free access to the ballot box, outright or subtle. Concerning the first: yeah, yeah, I know. Politicians have stretched the …
Two giant, daddy-hop-toad-sized frogs occupied a substantial portion of my plate this summer. Never mind a plate, they occupied a) a 7-foot tower of Ikea shelving and b) 39 cubic feet of air space respectively, in a storage space 8′ x 10′. And each frog weighed a half a metric …
Somebody (possibly the Astronomer Royal) decreed the egg a perfect food. Who am I to disagree? Many people think of them with the same fondness as Izaak Walton did strawberries. He quotes a certain Dr Boteler this way, concerning this berry’s relationship to perfection: Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ‘Doubtless …
