Saturday, February 29, 2020

I recently read Radium Girls, a book about the young women of the early 20th Century who painted the numbers on glow-in-the-dark watch faces. At least they did until their technique of putting the brush in their mouths between each number led to their jaws and teeth rotting out of their heads and early deaths.
The business was really profitable, though. When the GOP talks about job-killing regulations, keep in mind that they are advocating instead for employee-killing regulations.

Thursday, February 27, 2020

I recently lost my keys when they fell out of my pocket when I was bicycling. I probably would have found them with the Tile app, but a Good Samaritan picked them up. Eventually, when I went to put an ad in the paper, I saw the GS had already put an ad in that he’d found them. Joyful reunion, story over.
Except now, when I step outside my wife quizzes me about my keys like I’ve spent my life strewing them like a flower girl at a locksmith’s wedding.