Recent content by Icky Mettle

I heard he also walked uphill through the snow both ways to attend his classes at Wharton.

My law partner (who lived in Chapel Hill) was diagnosed with this last November. He died 16 days after diagnosis. His death occurred just a matter of weeks after the first symptom appeared. To make matters even worse (as if they could be worse), all this happened right after his 23-year-old...

I went to a high school where the vast majority students’ parents were Republican (this was the early-90s, so we’re talking Country Club Republicans). Most of those students followed their parents’ lead on that. At least some of them have now changed political stripes. That said, many of those...

Seems to me they would have loved it. No school!

I’ve said before that it looks like a 1985 movie’s version of what a military vehicle would look like in the year 2000.

I have a good friend (who happens to do immigration legal work) who has a SIL who is a British citizen of Pakistani descent but resides in the US as a permanent resident. She was recently out of the country for a while, having left prior to all this mess going down, and he advised her to mail...

They remember everything.

He obviously hasn’t seen the Venn diagram.

It’s absurd.

Back around that time, reality TV was about the only option you had with network TV/basic cable. Dark times.

It sounds like he will be. And our only PG for that matter.

Yikes. We’re on Seneca Lake. And about 15 miles south of Dresden at that.

Admittedly, I watched that first season and some of the second. Funny enough, the “appeal” of the show was tuning in to see how much of a buffoon Donald Trump was. You just had to laugh at how much of a dimwitted jackass he was and at his general lack of self-awareness while also being so...

I always go through life feeling like my glass is 1/8th full.

We have a family cottage in the Finger Lakes like that. It was built nearly 120 years ago by people who were not professional builders and there’s nothing about it that would pass inspection if it were built today (or probably ever). We ask my uncle, who is an architect, what can be done to...