“If you don’t give me your Milky Way, I’m telling Mom what you did on the way home from school yesterday!” C’mon, admit it. At some time in your life you’ve employed that action to get something you really wanted. I believe a court of law would call it blackmail. Or extortion. Basically it amounts [...]

Did you have a nickname as a kid? I don’t mean "Jimmy" from James, "Missy" from Melissa, "Jack" from John, or "Beth" from Elizabeth. I’m thinking more along the line of "Curly," "Skippy," "Scooter," "T-Bone," "Pee-Wee," "Little Missy," "Princess," or "Bud." Before it became politically incorrect, I'm pretty sure many people probably had at least [...]

For at least the past two years, if you were a member of the South Korean military, there’s probably one job to which you never wanted to be assigned: Phone monitor in the Demilitarized Zone. There, apparently, a little less than a football field apart in distance, but light years away culturally, a hotline has [...]

I thought the festivities of this past week were supposed to usher in a new beginning, a clean slate, a fresh start. Then I see that Congress is coming back to talk about avoiding a government shutdown (tell me again why a shutdown would be so bad?), health insurance is a hot topic, and illegal [...]