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What’s Up With That? #77: Teaching a pig to sing
Here’s an example of why the word “landlord” is synonymous in the minds of most people with “used car salesman” and “politician.” We’ve lived as renters in the same house for the past 15 years. We love...
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What’s Up With That? #78: Crunch time
The current leader in Uncle Swan’s Moron of the Month Sweepstakes is Janine Sugawara of San Diego, who sued PepsiCo Inc. in federal court because the crunchberries in Cap’n Crunch cereal are not actual...
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What’s Up With That? #79: WWDBD? (What would Debby Boone do?)
Here’s a story I would never have expected to read while quaffing my morning java. Joseph Brooks, the Oscar- and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter responsible for one of the most insidious earworms...
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What’s Up With That? #80: Video killed the RadioShack
My long-ago former employer RadioShack (to illustrate how long ago it was that I worked for them, the name was still two discrete words back then) is rebranding itself as “The Shack.” Aside from the...
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What’s Up With That? #81: Dude, the chainsaw seems like overkill
If you live outside the greater San Francisco Bay Area, you might not have heard about the 17-year-old yahoo (no relation) who attempted to blow up a local high school this morning. Armed with 1o pipe...
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What’s Up With That? #82: Busted bridge
I’m not a structural engineer, but… If the recently repaired chunk of the Bay Bridge can be taken out by a stiff wind, why should we have confidence that it could withstand a major earthquake — which...
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What’s Up With That? #83: Cap’n Jack bests Cap’n Swan… again
For the umpteenth consecutive year, the editorial staff of People Magazine has seen fit to deny me my rightful title of Sexiest Man Alive. Instead, they picked Johnny Depp again. This seems a rather...
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What’s Up With That? #84: Grave robbers
If ever there was an argument for the return of public flogging, this just might be it. Last weekend, a family of four from nearby Sonoma — John and Susan Maloney and their two young children, an...
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What’s Up With That? #85: Yes, Jacquelyn, there is a Santa Claus…
…but you are not he. This weird tale comes to us straight out of the pages of EC Comics — or would, if EC Comics were still being published, and were based in Bakersfield, California. The decomposing...
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What’s Up With That? #86: The Cocaine Fairy delivers to the back door
I’ve heard some lame excuses in my time, but this one touches bottom. Literally. In Manatee County, Florida, 25-year-old Raymond Stanley Roberts was pulled over by sheriff’s deputies in a routine...
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