Petty Annoyances

Every week, the New Yorker has a cartoon caption contest. They provide the cartoon on their website. They accept caption submissions. They c...

In last week's Impromptus I had a followup to my Corner post of Wednesday last that engendered much comment. To briefly recap, I had w...

Final Fantasy is ruined. This great series of videogames, one that for over a decade delivered the best games of all time, strung together l...

I mean really. Stinkeroo. What an amateur. I actually got so annoyed with how bad his performance was in Boiler Room that it took me right o...

I am really getting tired of the people who interrupt you when you begin a sentence with "To be honest". They stop you mid sentenc...

Thanks a lot buddy. Great job you did there. What with the bomb in the shoe. That was some strong thinking. Enjoy your prison time. He's...

221. Vegetarians who force their pets to be vegetarian. 222. Eddie Murphy's refusal to participate in any kind of SNL retrospective. 223...

It's been kind of a chore, over the years, to keep track of all my passwords. I don't want them all to be identical, and yet if I ha...

I had one or two other topics to go here that were poker related. But I'm starting to think that poker is a bit of a niche issue, and no...

The Bellagio Poker Room in Las Vegas is seriously overrated. It coasts on accolades like these year after year, without any real critical s...

In my opinion there's just something unsportmanlike about it and it diminishes the game. That's probably an extreme position to take...

I don't get any pleasure out of saying this - but don't you think it is patently clear that the Metroid protagonist Samus was made f...

This year, Entertainment Weekly published a whole issue of lists. Best 100 Movies of the last 25 years. Best 100 books, music albums, TV sho...

What Use is a James Bond Blu Ray Boxed Set that features 6 Completely Random Bond Movies? This happens all the time. You get six random Bond...

Why is no one talking about immortality? How come it isn't on the agenda? How come all this progress on decoding the genome and sequenci...