Jim Leff's Slog

This meme seems like such a mild, reasonable request. And yet, few humans until a couple decades ago would have imagined any entitlement t...

Solicitously deferring to attractive people only feeds privilege the rest of us lack. As with a black person gallantly yielding her 1958 bus...

The Anguish of Señora Vanessa I've avoided several orthopedic surgeries via yoga and weekly therapy. I am my physical therapist's...

Updating Eleanor Roosevelt's quote — valid for millennia but now completely obsolete: Small minds discuss memes Average minds discuss...

The very worst waiters that I've ever seen all had something in common: They all felt that being a waiter was beneath them. When, in...

You cannot, in the present era, sell a used item to another person for a stated price. If an item is worth $50 and you price it at $40, yo...

There will never be a channel for people who do things I find interesting to inform me about new interesting things without inevitably filli...

I added a few new lines to "The 'Spaghetti-in-the-Face' of it All" . Sometimes, after all the shucking and jiving, I fin...

"What will I be doing at age 63?" asked 25 year old me. This photo would meet with his approval. When I was a child, I felt ...

Every day the world throws a plate of spaghetti in your face. And if you wake up in the morning saying, "I will not tolerate having a...