This is the actual, unedited warning from the National Weather Service, a federal agency of the United States government:
ALONG AND NEAR KATRINA’S PATH…EXPECT PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE…INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.
HIGH RISE [...]

Lately, I have been listening to way too much talk radio, which is to say “I have been listening to talk radio.” A friend of mine has been guest hosting a local NPR talk show, so I bought a radio to listen to that at work, and the show acted as a gateway drug to [...]

I do not especially remember Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. To a certain extent, that can be attributed to the fact that I read it over the 4th of July weekend while visiting the Wisconsin Dells, a trip that also included everything from fireworks to ice cream-covered funnel cakes to rides on [...]

They’re everywhere! There’s one in my mailbox! There’s one in my backpack!

The truckers are on it.

Over the years, I have begrudgingly come to accept that there are some kinds of information that my head is simply not shaped to hold. Conversations I had ten years ago, these I could produce transcripts of from memory. “Mork & Mindy” episodes I saw when I was four: would you prefer quoted dialogue or [...]

Who would you rather be this summer, a solider in Fallujah or a Boy Scout at Disneyworld? Consider your answer carefully.