Say your prayers, chicken sandwich lovers.

I promise to return with something more thought-provoking later in the week. For now, more mindless observations and petty gripes.

 
The square that shattered my dreams.
As some of you know, one of my life’s dreams is to successfully complete the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. Last week, I came as close as I ever have. [...]

Ever since the Soviet Union split up and Russia has fallen into disarray, some Americans, intent on finding the next nuclear bogeyman, have looked to China to fill us with fear of a holocaust. They are communist and fully armed after all. But a brief visit to the campus of the University of Illinois at [...]

This just may be my favorite celebrity-endorsed advertisement of all time that doesn’t involve the gratuitous objectification of the female form. I can’t explain it; it just works for me. I’ll be purchasing something from the Gap soon, and I’ll tell them that Will and Amy sent me.

A shiny new dime to whoever can tell [...]

My dad pointed something out earlier this fall, and now I can’t help but notice it.

Every football broadcaster, at both the collegiate and professional level, make the same hand gestures when they are on camera during the game, as illustrated here by John Madden. They hold their hands apart and perpendicular [...]