The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism..

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen….

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before th….

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?.

There's always a source for humor..

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his ag….

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan..

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be..

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I w….

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California..

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey..

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed ….

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt..

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work..

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it ….

Health food makes me sick..

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry..

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy..

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President..

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist..

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally..