Drive around the Circle City on any given day, and you’ll waste a lot of gas. But while you’re doing that, you’ll also see a wide variety of barbershops and beauty parlors, most with clever names like Snobs, Pout, Attitudes, Hemispheres and, the always appropriate for a good joke, Squirt and Louie.

On a recent trip home to Georgia, I bought a $1 Powerball lottery ticket.

My mother has this great saying for folks who have gotten a little above themselves.

Television late night infomercials just haven’t been the same since the departure of Miss Cleo several years ago.

For this week’s column, instead of a long-winded tirade on whatever topic I’ve chosen to bloviate about, you’ll be treated to five short-winded rants.

I’m firmly convinced that we could whip this terrorism and drug war thing within a month if we had 2-year-olds doing searches at airports and border crossings.

Most of the forms of torture sound sort of like stuff folks did to me when I was in high school.

Let’s face it, most things today just aren’t built as well as they were in the past.

Closet geeks are those members of geekdom who chose to hide their true allegiance behind fashionable clothes, feigned interest in sports and other parts of mainstream culture.

Spring is here and it appears the must-have fashion item of the season is going to be surgical masks.

Unless you’re a government worker, you might not be aware there’s a holiday tomorrow.

If Madonna’s not able to adopt a child from Malawi, I have a wonderful alternative - adopt me.

Under the law of nature, our pets are totally justified in trying to get us.

I’ve often remarked to my colleagues and friends about how impressed I am with the proclamations of those who choose to type in all caps.

This week’s column will be yet another masterpiece about the recession.