Welcome back to the Serenade of the Seas. Home of the 9-month Ultimate World Cruise. As I write this we are on day 37 . . . I think. I’m...

Welcome back to the Serenade of the Seas. Home of the occasionally notorious Ultimate World Cruise. I’m your cruise director Juli….an....

Hi, and welcome back to the Ultimate World Cruise, Part 3. We just left Buenos Aires, Argentina after a two-day stay. Remember the...

Welcome back to Royal Caribbean's Ultimate World Cruise, Part 2. Last time I told you about the peculiar caste system that became...

Here I am, on something called Royal Caribbean's Ultimate World Cruise. This is a 274-day journey virtually around the entire planet. I...

Prepare to hate me even more than you did before. I don’t think I am going to say anything particularly controversial, but it is the...

I spent a great deal of time trying to come up with a clever and catchy title for this article. But the more I thought about it the more...

So tell me. What do you recall about the time before you were born? Yes, I’m being a smart ass but it’s an honest question. However long...

A decade or more ago, I played a lot of poker. I also worked in the industry. I held various poker management positions over the last 25...

I will not bury the lead. I will ask a most indelicate question. Why are men obsessed with penis length? Let us not pretend this is not...

I’m trying very hard to break up with the NFL. It’s not as easy as it sounds. There are plenty of damn good reasons to stop watching it....

I just saw a movie that got me thinking about the way people react to disasters and life-threatening emergencies. It was Force Majeure, a...

A few months ago, when I was still a functional, working and reasonably normal employee, I received an odd phone call. It was from the HR...

I apologize for the bad pun. Not just because it was a bad pun. But also, because it undermines the seriousness of the matter. So please...

People love music. I love music. It plays a huge role in our lives. You could make the case that music is the soundtrack of life even...

Well . . . no. There is nothing romantic about ISMs. At least not the way we think and talk about them. I guess if you ignore all the...

Depending on when you are reading this, the book Why The Fuck Not? Is either already available or will be soon. I think you should get it...

Who am I to disagree? Ok, I’m going to try and put this in the least ironic and sarcastic way possible. A lot of popular music is a test...

It almost feels unfair to beat up on Fox “News”. It is perhaps the lowest hanging fruit you can find in terms of critical analysis. There...

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