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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows…
– Epictetus
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford isn’t a man’s man, nor is he a ladies’ man. He’s a very strange man, to be sure. But basically he’s a selfish man.
Everyone now knows that Sanford betrayed his wife and kids by conducting an affair with an [...]
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The best Father’s Day tribute I can think of is to reflect not too seriously on one of my dad’s not-too-serious songs.
When he got home from World War II — where he was awarded a Bronze Star I only discovered after his death in 2000 — my father, Carl Sigman, picked up his [...]
Posted: June 17, 2009 10:19 AM
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Getting fired sucks. Doing the firing can get you fired at.
Since December 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, seven million Americans have been thrown out of work, mostly for reasons having nothing to do with job performance. It took many thousands of bosses to do all [...]
Posted: June 9, 2009 12:55 PM
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When I started working for LA Weekly in the early ’80s, the paper was almost as famous for its mistakes as for its cutting edge film reviews, lefty politics and porn ads.
Sometimes the errors were intentional, like when a smart-aleck designer pasted a Hitler mustache on an [...]
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
–James Thurber
My mom insists her autobiography will be titled I Laugh Alone, but she has always cracked me up. When I was little, a stranger showed up at our door with her daughter in [...]