In my line of work, sleep is a very precious commodity. And so this morning, when a rooster’s crow jolted me awake TWO full hours before my alarm was set to go off, I was slightly annoyed. The slightly annoyed turned into very annoyed as his crows continued, as loud as if he were merely [...]

I consider it one of the great injustices in the world that my beautiful, fully loaded Honda Accord did not come equipped with an auxiliary jack for an iPod. As injustices go, it may not be up there with world hunger or the AIDS crisis, but it’s probably a close third. (OK, it’s a tad [...]