Summary of My Discontent
Essential albums for Laura
Dear friends, I need your help. In just a few short weeks, my daughter Laura Rose will go off to college.
Summary of My Discontent
Sixty-seven ways to feel alive
Hold an ice cube on your belly until it melts. Learn to identify 20 trees by looking at their leaves.
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America is like a really nice bathroom
We live in the greatest country in the history of this or any other planet in all the known and unknown universe.
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A banking empire is born
Banking, like everything else, is losing its bricks and mortar.
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Casualties of technology
As heartbreaking as it is, at least it’s good to know that The Courier-Journal will publish its last print edition on Sunday, May 19, 2019.
Summary of My Discontent
Viral media
Whoop! Whoop! Call off the freak-out. Put away your haz-mat Snuggie. You’re going to live. The H1N1 virus, formerly known as “The Other White Meat Flu,” is running scared.
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The war on stupid
Here’s a bit of shockingly good-ish news: Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, we are getting smarter.
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Attention angry mob: Focus!
One advantage to being outraged at all times is that when “populist outrage” like that currently aimed at Wall Street comes along, it barely registers a blip on your blood-pressure gaug
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Is that a gun in your pocket?
When the Memphis Commercial Appeal recently added a searchable database of Tennessee gun owners to its website, I was crazy-jealous that we didn’t have that service available here.




