Tagged: society

6

Neil Gaiman on political correctness

I’ve seen this quote from Neil Gaiman about “political correctness” making the rounds lately. Even though it’s from a few years ago (on Valentine’s Day, no less), it’s still pretty apt. I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough)...

0

jokes: true sense of humor

I have been programmed with a true sense of humor. If a joke is funny, I will laugh. –Sgt. Eve Edison, “Mann & Machine“ I often repeat a version of this, and no one ever gets it. It’s about the...

4

coffee: hurry up and wait

I know this is sort of a Generation X and New Coffee Generation blasphemy, but isn’t it a bit weird that we have an entire industry devoted–mostly–to selling brewed coffee? Not that I don’t partake as much as the next...