Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

The way the economy is nowadays, the latest status symbol is a job. If you have one, you’re lucky. If you enjoy it, you're doubly luck...

Two of my heroes are comic writer Dave Barry and beloved American commentator Will Rogers. Dave Barry, before reporting on something true-b...

Last November, the Telegraph newspaper (from the UK) published an article titled " Oxford Compiles List of Top Ten Irritating Phrases ,...

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday: in order to maximize the number of comments left in response to a post, I should write about either b...

One of the nice things about living next to a stretch of thickly-wooded county park land is that we have privacy and relative peace and quie...

Okay, Rima and Fiona and Mike started this, so blame them if you're one of those odd people easily offended by sexual imagery. Yes, I...

Israel continues to bomb Gaza as Hamas continues to fire rockets at Israel, a rock star's family is planning to auction off his used co...

In the classic Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup , Groucho (as Rufus T. Firefly, the leader of Freedonia) is chairing a meeting of his advisors ...

Happy New Year! Okay, now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, let's look at the first silliness of 2009... Governor Rod "...

Last January zero_zero_one, who blogs at Cognitive Blindspot, posted a list of the books he'd read during the previous year. It was a ...