Not for the first time, my barber was unfamiliar with men with copious body hair. Dude, just clipping a little below the collar line is fine – I’m not here for the full “40-year-old Virgin.”

Sometime after I turned 40 I stopped enjoying fiction as much as I used to. I think it’s been a bit more than a year since I read a novel I really LOVED.

Do you find that’s true for you?

There are two generations of Mexican luchador wrestlers named “Dr. Wagner.” How did I not know this?

“One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination had died out by this time,” one writer complains. It sounds like a lament from today, but in fact, it’s from 1875."

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