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Amazon keeps raising their Prime membership rates, and today I just got a notice saying that there are now limited ads unless you want to pay an extra $3 per month. Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, people got cable TV partially because they wanted to escape ads. Now it seems like one-third of every...

The wife is recovering from surgery and is watching an HGTV marathon while she recuperates. I'm wondering what percentage of those House Hunters couples stay together afterward. Most of them are insufferable. This particular marathon is also on the Oprah network, so the vast majority are black...

No, people like him need to be punished before they get worse. He sounds like he’s itching for an excuse to assault anybody.

His staff were a reflection of his voting base. High rates of drug addiction were indicative of Trump support in those counties.

"Number four will shock you!" "Check out this one prenatal hack doctors don't want you to know about!"

And you just know that they're sending your data to advertisers.

The wife and I have been trying for a kid. She's at the age where that can be difficult. Thanks to my pricey health insurance, we have access to fertility specialists. The wife set an appointment with a fertility specialist weeks ago, and it was scheduled for today. Last week, they sent us...

Heh, I wish. We are also trying to get Michael Twitty to visit campus.

I have created a culinary history class. I’ve got a small but enthusiastic group of students. On occasion, to kick things up a notch, I prepare historical recipes and bring them in for sampling. Today I baked some ancient Egyptian bread based on some grave goods in Ramses III’s tomb. I had found...

Whenever I hear about another atrocity in Mississippi I think about this Phil Ochs song. Still as relevant today as it was in the '60s.

A big rig already overturned on the highway, and we’re starting to see wrecks all around Houston. As soon as the wife and I get back from her dental appointment we’re buttoning up at home. And my university is moving to online only instruction for the next few days. That suits me. I just hope...

I've been fighting off an upper respiratory infection for the past few days. The doc gave me antibiotics and I'm feeling much better. I should be fine in another day or two. The downside is all those meds make my breath have that weird aftertaste. Every time I cough or talk too much I get that...

It's been almost twelve years since I read the first book, but I'm digging the Percy Jackson series on Disney+. The characters actually look like they're in middle school and not twenty-something college students. I was unsure about some of the race lifting (I was picturing Kathleen Kennedy...

When our cat was fighting her illness, I gave her lots of water so she could flush out whatever junk was in her system. That meant I had to scoop out her litter box at least once a day. Those clumps didn't have the normal cat litter smell; her medications and the toxins from her liver combined...

This second What If? season is entertaining as hell. The Christmas party at Stark Tower was a riot from start to finish.

I'm noticing more and more commercials that feature people doing nice things for each other and then crying about it. WTF?

I put a student in front of the Academic Integrity Review Board last week. One of her papers was 100% AI-generated. I got suspicious of her previous work and ran another paper through the AI detector. It came back at 93%. She claimed it was all her work. I didn't buy it. She's failing my class...

"Don't you know how to KNOCK?"

I think "woke" today is what "SJW" was ten years ago and what "PC" was in the '90s. It's anything that makes an especially awful breed of white people uneasy because they might face consequences for being openly bigoted. Here is what I have noticed about particular fandoms that use "woke" as a...