I love urban legends:  The one about the killer calling the babysitter from inside the house, or the acne that turned out to be a quivering pod of spider eggs.  You know, all those. But my favorite is the one about how you can cause pigeons and...

Giant Party at the Brandenburg Gate 20 year ago tomorrow, the Berlin Wall was breached.  The first East Berliner to make it across – legally – was a woman named Angelika Wachs (news to me…old hat to everyone over here). Algelika Wachs My favorite...

  An R-rated food. Must be 17 or accompanied by adult to eat safely. Highly-intelligent child holds up half-eaten stem of steamed broccoli: “Dad, will this make me dead?”   Family doctor Dad replies, “ABSOLUTELY, son.  Some stuff just wasn’t...

I'm SO sick...can't taxpayers just pay for my life? Patient: “I think my body is shutting down” (but really I just want you to write me a doctor’s note saying I never have to go to work again d/t incurable back pain) Me:  ”No, you’ll be fine. And...

I’m happy to announce that I now drive a Mercedes-Benz.  It’s true.  A real in-the-steel-and-glass Mercedes.  The model is a C-180, which is the 4-cylinder, 4-door model.  The smallest engine they make (great gas mileage).  To boot – it’s green,...