The other day, Facebook informed me that I had seven friends who “liked” Sarah Palin. Naturally, I first checked to see who they were (no surprises there) and then I posted this: Marlene Merritt is slightly alarmed to see FB say that seven of my friends “like” Sarah Palin. Does this mean they “like” her [...]

The only way I could get my mother to agree to get a cell phone a few years ago was to tack her onto our family plan. So now she’s in New York City with an Austin area code and doesn’t use the phone that much, except when picking people up from JFK airport, which [...]

I was going to post a video from Ren and Stimpy (those of you who watched that in the’90′s know who you are) and their Happy Happy Joy Joy song, but I got distracted by all the other shows I hadn’t seen in nearly 20 years, so now I’m going to skip it. Probably no [...]