Jim Leff's Slog

I've really been enjoying middle age after decades of flinching at comets. Shit, as innumerable sages have observed, happens. Until yo...

This is a Web Search Landing Posting (WSLP) for the few dozen Apple Pay folks who try to pay via Apple Pay on the web and have problems bec...

I just saw yet another friend complaining on Facebook about insomnia. That does it. I need to share some hard-won knowledge. I've been...

So there's a rare but worrisome possible side issue here: Stroke . Sorry to be a downer, and bear in mind that these stories are rare ...

Two observations, one mysterious, the other less so: 1. I ordered takeout online from an Indian restaurant largely serving immigrants. T...

I toured for several years with Illinois Jacquet, a big name to anyone over age 60 with any casual acquaintance with jazz, though he's s...

Don't say I'm never terse . Insight: People can be surprisingly awful and superficial and neurotic and dumb, etc. Pitfall: Peo...

As a centrist, I see the Right as the Left does, and vice versa. Temperamentally cooler and more pragmatic than either side (i.e. I roll my...

I wrote this Quora answer some time ago. It never caught fire like my near-viral reply to "How do I tell if somebody is intelligent?...

I'm going through old boxes. The image below is from about age 7. That's when I was sending myself postcards forward in time to mys...