Life As We Know It with Tom Walton

Happy New Year 2024 01.01.2024 ↓

New Years Day is one holiday we can keep saying to friends for weeks after January 1.

Shohei Ohtani 25.12.2023 ↓

Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani has 700 million reasons to celebrate Christmas.

Love, The Fizblisters 18.12.2023 ↓

It’s been another tough year for Harvey and Harriet Fizblister, as their annual holiday letter points out.

Greed and Vanity 11.12.2023 ↓

Expelled Congressman George Santos has found a new way to make money: personalized videos.

Catalog Season 04.12.2023 ↓

The change of season is here, from “non-catalog season” to “catalog season.”

Early TV Game Shows 27.11.2023 ↓

Television’s best early game shows were the ones that offered an intellectual challenge.

Replacing Worn Out Clothes 20.11.2023 ↓

Women replace their clothes. Men wear their clothes forever.

Grammatical Blunders 13.11.2023 ↓

Grammarians cringe at the abuse and over-use of periods.

Marketing State Slogans 06.11.2023 ↓

Seldom do state marketing slogans show much imagination.

Politics, A Spectator Sport? 30.10.2023 ↓

Politics is a spectator sport full of one surprise after another.

Power of Humor 23.10.2023 ↓

The power of humor to deliver a serious message is undeniable.

Remembering Jimmy Buffett 16.10.2023 ↓

Jimmy Buffett’s death continues to sadden his millions of “Parrothead” fans.

Movie Theater Etiquette 09.10.2023 ↓

Americans are heading back to movie theaters, and they’re taking some familiar bad behavior with them.

Term Limits 02.10.2023 ↓

Our Constitution sets a minimum age for the president. Maybe it’s time to set a maximum age too.

National One-Hit Wonder Day 25.09.2023 ↓

Sing it with me. It’s National One-Hit Wonder Day.

Milestone Birthdays 18.09.2023 ↓

We are defined by the milestone birthdays in our lives.

Artificial Intelligence 11.09.2023 ↓

It’s official. Artificial intelligence can write better than I can.

Flying the Friendly Skies 04.09.2023 ↓

An American Airlines pilot lays down the law to his passengers: behave yourselves back there.

Internet Scams 28.08.2023 ↓

Internet scammers know all the tricks for parting you from your money.

Movie Pairings 21.08.2023 ↓

Given the success of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” maybe we should consider pairing other films as an odd double feature.

You Want Fries With That? 14.08.2023 ↓

A South Carolina Burger King is in big trouble for serving French fries that previous customers have left behind.

Cruise Ship or Floating City 31.07.2023 ↓

The world’s newest and largest cruise ship will soon qualify as a “floating city.”

Food in Space 24.07.2023 ↓

A NASA contest is searching for the best way to send enough food for a mission to Mars.

Age 17.07.2023 ↓

South Korea tradition ends; newborns will no longer be a year old at birth.

Macon Bacon 10.07.2023 ↓

Critics of the Macon Bacon baseball team demand it pick a new name.