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- Fragrance brands spend tens of millions of dollars in market research to produce an ad featuring Johnny Depp playing guitar in a desert that annoys every viewer during the holiday season, thinking this makes people want to smell like cherries with a hint of diesel.
- Hunter’s pardon is most definitely hypocritical, but it’s not an injustice. Hunter never would have been prosecuted in the first place had he not been the President’s son, and more specifically, a Democratic President’s son.
- I still haven’t recovered from the existential crisis of realizing that Pluto is not a planet.
- In the 1970s, 27 people were killed in rear-end collisions involving Ford Pintos that caught fire, enough of a hazard to warrant recalling the car and canceling the model. To date, 83 people have died from fires caused by exploding batteries or self-driving modes gone awry on Teslas, and yet no one is calling for the brand to be taken off the road. Do we really trust the owner of the company to determine what government oversight agencies are needed?
- The right-wing attempt to secure power in South Korea is just the road show working out the bugs before it hits US audiences.
- Evolution is nature’s AI: billions of simultaneous permutations to find the proper solution. Nature’s processor just works much, much slower.
- Please stop tinkering with baseball. The designated hitter was bad enough–a pitcher is a baseball player and should be obligated to stand in the batter’s box–but the “golden at-bat” proposal is just plan stupid.
- Pete Hegseth’s sexual abuse and drunkenness have successfully overshadowed the fact that utterly unqualified for the job.
- Musk spent more than a quarter billion dollars to buy the power of the presidency he couldn’t obtain constitutionally.
- “We’ll circle back to that” = Corporate speak for “This meeting could have been an email.”
- There are way too many bowl games. I understand the business side of college bowl games needs to make a profit, but please end the season at the conference championships and let the top dozen teams or so go to a playoff.
- For the first holiday season in their house, our new neighbors installed a motion-activated animatronic talking Santa that talks. All night. Go out our back door and you hear, “I’m watching you. You’re on my list.”
- “Trading Spaces” is a much better non-holiday holiday movie than “Die Hard.” It clearly has a cheerier seasonal message.
- Every time I see a “Support Our Troops” sticker on a dualie pickup that gets six miles per gallon, I can’t help but wonder if irony died or just took early retirement.
- I can’t say what my overall favorite cheese is; cheese needs to fit the mood, the taste and the purpose. A good cheese board should offer selections with a theme–they go well with a wine or they come from places the hosts traveled to–but vary in textures and flavors. What makes a good cheese plate great, though, are the accompaniments: the bread, spreads, fruits and nuts to compliment your high-quality (not quantity) selections.
- I know no one who lists “The Little Drummer Boy” as their favorite Christmas story. I know many, including myself, who think it’s the thing holiday nightmares are made of.
- If I’m stuck on a writing project, I’ll use ChatGPT to jumpstart ideas for drafts or to “optomize for SEO,” which has become every client’s buzz phrase. Curious of its ability, I asked ChatGPT to summarize and duplicate an RtF column. Calling this a “sardonic, eclectic mix of cultural commentary, political observations, personal anecdotes, and sharp humor,” ChatGPT gave me some drafts of bullets. I’ve included three of them here. Can you tell which ones?
