Tag: Pointless

So this happened this morning. My sister, Emily, called me in tears after getting reamed out by her boss and clients for an error that wasn’t even her fault. She has been working nearly 70 hours per week and has really been trying her darn hardest to be a model employee for the past year...

We all know the story of Superman being rocketed to Earth from the exploding planet Krypton. While baby Supes, “Kal-El”, seems blameless, his parents sure as hell aren’t. Jor-El, Superman’s father, must have been an idiot of the first degree. First off, he discovers that t...

Imagine this scenario: you’re a high-school student and you decide to attend an exhibit that houses horrible poisonous spiders and radiation generators. Hey, that right there must be Fun ‘N Good Times City. I know I’d be the first in line to buy an admission ticket t...

If you have a pulse and a Twitter account whose algorithm has caught on to the fact you like football, you’ve seen the flurry of Ballon d’Or shortlist posts over the last twenty-four hours. I could dive into the sheer lunacy of having a thirty player shortlist for an award that...

Ironically, the “abstaining from alcohol” part of sobriety isn’t what makes it stink, although you’d think that was the tricky part. In reality, the benefits of sobriety are so great that abstaining is one of the easiest parts, at least comparatively. But that whole part abou...