bookof-daze

The average American pick-up truck has gained 1,142 pounds since 1990. Theaverage American, about the same. Theaverage Phish tune, in concert, added nearly two minutes… Read More

Our culture is obsessed with going the extra mile, giving 110 percent, leaving it all on the field. Supermarkets are open 24/7/365 to satisfy our… Read More

Jean-Paul Sartre observed that hell is other people. Who can disagree? Anyone whose dinner conversation was drowned out by louts sitting three tables away? Anyone… Read More

In these postmodern times, where civility, not to mention consensus, is a battered artifact of the past, America needs a new vision, a singular, unified… Read More

Welcome to the stubborn, dig-your-heels-in celebration of defiance against corporate peer pressure and the tyranny of the “new and improved.” Today we stand tall, defending… Read More

There is only one kind of person in the world. He who knows about Schrödinger’s cat, and he who does not. For most of us,… Read More

We love the sound of irregardless. It’s a four-syllable word from the wrong side of the dictionary, we know; but one should never send a… Read More

The Romans had an expression for it . . . “it” being a foul, snot-flinging, food-showing, butt-kicking mood that envelops a person for no reason.… Read More