Jim Leff's Slog

I'm finally reaching a point of clarity after 40 years of avid chowhounding — tens of thousands of restaurant meals in two dozen count...

I was suggesting local restaurants to a Portuguese friend. Suddenly, he had an idea to bounce off of me. "Isn't it a shame there...

Like most anti-MAGAs (i.e. those to the left of, say, Mussolini), it’s been deeply engrained in me that Republican gerrymandering in Texas d...

Even after a solid decade spent with our faces firmly planted in the thoroughly miserable psychological taint of a prodigiously wealthy and ...

Two things severely suppress intelligence: arrogance and ambition. Intelligence flows freely through dilation, while arrogance and ego are...

A friend was bewildered as to why Trump appointed a clown like Pete Hegseth as his defense secretary. My reply: Let me share an image I...

Annoyingly, you cannot make a Note in MacOS read-only (i.e. unalterable). So if you have a note containing important information which you f...

When, in an otherwise peaceful, comfortable moment, your mind spasms into the not-here/not-now to present some gratuitous blast of fear/loat...

There is nothing more exasperating than to watch someone with a shitty job do a shitty job at their shitty job out of the unshakeable convic...

Doing a thing 5,000 times, you'll be rewarded with one of two possible magic tricks: 1. If you try to do slightly better each time, yo...