As I get older, this is actually pretty much how I feel… From The New Yorker (their Cartoon Bank is down, so I can’t link to the bigger/purchase page, but you can find it there if you’re interested). UPDATE: my friend Tom replies with the cartoon below…
My friend Jason took this photo in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. As he says, it evokes questions on many levels…. Who is supposed to respond to this sign? And just how many secrets do meat processors have?
This time of year is special to me – Mother’s Day and my mother’s birthday always come close together (sometimes on the same day). Today my mother would have been 67. When I started this blog a few years ago, I posted a remembrance of Mom that I revisit every so often. I still think about [...]
Economist Arnold Kling points out the absurdity of the US government’s residential housing entities: Old consensus: we need Freddie and Fannie in order to make housing “affordable.” New consensus: we need them in order to “prevent further house price declines,” in other words, to make housing less affordable. A crazy world we Americans live in. [...]
I’m in that large minority of folks to whom this symbol means nothing. According to an article on Yahoo! Autos: Do you recognize the symbol here? It lights up in your instrument panel and looks like a U-shaped pictograph with treads and an exclamation point in the middle. Do you understand what it means now? [...]
I started this blog in July 2009. The first post of substance was about my mother, Marilyn Prater, who died in January 2008. Today is Mother’s Day in the US, so I thought I would highlight those words and images again. I think of Mom every day, and I’m prouder than ever of what she [...]
