A ‘Build Back Better’ blueprint — Fast Company recently asked the best ad agency in the world to rebrand America. It was a purely speculative assignment with no budgets or practicality attached to it. …

Most of us several decades from now, but it’s still true — My bed looks like a sunken oatmeal raisin cookie. The mattress and box spring rest on the carpet. According to the memes, I don’t have to worry about Joe Biden’s new tax plan. Maybe that’s why I woke up several times last night and thought, “Oh damn. …

It was close. Maybe I’m supposed to celebrate. Be happy. Be thrilled even that a bloviating billionaire, callous narcissist, reflexively dishonest idiot will begin his slow rancorous descent from the presidency. I’m glad he lost. But I’m not happy. We put our hands on a gun loaded with bullets of…

The Jewish Talmud says that every single blade of grass in the world has an angel above it, whispering, “Grow. Grow. Grow.” An Islamic Hadith tells how the Prophet said, “Even on the Day of Judgment, if you’re carrying a seed, plant it.” In Batman & Robin, George Clooney’s Batman…

ATTN: Anyone who likes puns — If puns were music, they’d be the macarena. If puns were a day, they’d be Second Monday. If they were food, they’d look like candy and taste like prunes. If they were a leisurely weekend, they’d spring yard work on your Saturday and paint your Sunday with pointless e-mails. Puns…

I don’t remember my first day of school. But I won’t forget my daughter’s. It’s tomorrow. I feel like I’ve been emotionally putting off all the things I should be feeling. I’m still feeling them. I’m just not swimming in them. I’m welcoming distractions and filling the weekends with unreflective…

It can’t be video games. Or else in Mario’s heyday, I missed the epidemic of people eating wild mushrooms in attempts to double in size. It can’t be mental illness. You call people who ignore facts and are losing touch with reality in a dogmatic and unshakeable insistence on what…

There’s got to be a ton of people out there who’ve been murdered that didn’t want it. I’d venture to say maybe half of the victims would’ve wanted more time. Well, I wish I could trade places with them. Any of them. I’d even take some rape or torture on…