In Snark Contrast

"Get Smart", a sitcom that ran from 1965-1970, created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, parodied the secret agent genre that was highly popular at the...

So, here's a scenario: A guy decides he wants to become a peanut farmer, right out of the blue, with nary an agricultural sentiment expressed prior...

Okay, so let's say you have a blind spot, ya know, something that virtually everyone else is familiar with but has somehow alluded you from your ch...

Funny, the things you remember.  Funny, too, the things you don't.  To this day, I swear I can recall the moment I first spotted my newborn brother...

It's true, ideas are fleeting.  And, they can't be rushed.  They're their own little entity, stopping by when they please, leaving without even a h...

What's up with Tobago, anyway?  I mean, they've been getting a free ride since, like, 1889, scant years after Keith Richards made the scene.  Befor...

Saying there are a lot of doubters out there would be a monumental understatement. Kinda like claiming Bill Gates has done okay for himself or that...

Everywhere I turn lately, I'm inundated with "Remember when?" scenarios harkening back to the good old days when anything and everything was so muc...

Forget about that nest egg, already.  Damned if those pennies haven't been pinched enough.  All the squirreling away, belt-tightening and corner-cu...

I like a good idiom as much as the next guy.  Instead of multi-tasking I'll "kill two birds with one stone".  Rather than telling secrets I'll "let...

In the end, maybe it's life's little pleasures that matter the most.  For some, it might be getting up extra early to witness a glorious sunrise or...

I get that some people consider viewing golf on television akin to watching paint dry (the ones who have no idea how ridiculously great these athle...