Quality assurance in a husband
A Romanian tried to lodge a complaint with consumer protection officials after his girlfriend refused to marry him.
Doing time in tiny chairs
Few things strike greater fear in the parental heart than these: parent-teacher conferences. Highly educated adults, captains of industry, even veterans of foreign wars can be reduced to puddles of insecurity at the very prospect of conferring with their child's teacher.
Fungal cream? Makes a great gift!
For years, the great philosophers of the world have told us people can be divided into two basic groups: the Day After Thanksgiving Shoppers and rational human beings.
My pilgrim progress, or not so much
I have nothing against Thanksgiving. Really. Any holiday that has pie as its main export is all right with me.
Superhero’s mom has hands of steel
From the moment I held my firstborn son in my arms, I realized, almost instantaneously, that this wild, wonderful, unpredictably joyous journey I had only just begun would, in the blink of a moment, lead to my own planned obsolescence.
OK, so celebrity parents are perfect
As if we needed further proof that celebrities are, in fact, pure evil, we have Gwyneth Paltrow nattering on in a recent issue of The British Mirror: "(Having a baby) changed the way I see the world,'' she told a reporter.
Clowning around has its rewards
How does that old song go? Send in the clowns
Adding to the class menagerie
As usual, our family remains committed to causing highly educated and supremely dedicated professionals seriously doubt their career of choice.
Americans just say no to science
A team from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, has, for the first time, discovered a giant squid captured on camera in its natural habitat.
Are you a victim of cable TV?
Once again, I have let a perfect opportunity for martyrdom pass me right by. Isn't that always how it is? Blink, you miss it, and before you know it, all the good victimizations are taken.
