I can just feel the waves of sympathy rolling in for this woman . She's Joyce Lustbader, a research scientist at Columbia University: She calls her marriage a good one. She also has the benefit of a once-a-week housecleaner a…
Every time I mean to watch the Olympics, like tonight, when I was going to watch the ice dancing finals, I mindlessly click on some news site that reveals who won the medals. But I was cleaning the basement today and I found an o…
You've got to learn how to behave in airports. "I said if it's that big a deal, just keep it," he said. "But then the screener gets really officious with me. He's taking everything out and looking at i…
Ambivalent Imbroglio emailed me, asking why, as a lawprof, I've taken up blogging. He's a law student interested in what motivates lawprofs to blog. I suppose the fact that I'm blogging an answer to email (which he s…
"When I Was Cool." I had to drive from Chicago back home to Madison today, and I was glad to turn on the car radio to find the very beginning of a Fresh Air interview with Sam Kashner about his book "When I Was Coo…