Venice—the one they keep in Italy, not Southern California—has a problem that cities around the world might envy: “over-tourism,” as one local official told the New York Times.

Face it: The self-driving car was never the equal of a self-cleaning oven. While both could cause you serious harm, odds are good that the self-cleaning oven would never veer suddenly in your kitchen and fatally collide with, say, your dishwasher.

Even though insurance companies are compulsive gamblers, I have to admit they “know when to hold ‘em/Know when to fold ‘em,” as that Kenny Rogers song (written by Don Schlitz) has it.

Starting soon, many of us will make plans to attend our high school reunions. Simultaneously, the word “Why?” may begin to dominate our thinking.

Stephen Colbert did a screamingly funny pantomime on his Late Show recently.

While it’s probably premature to announce that my decades-long love affair with automobiles is kaput, my own car and I are currently undergoing a trial separation.

“We live all around the world,” says Diane Tobin about the Jewish people, “so why not embrace that?”

According to CBS News, “Actors at Disneyland who perform as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as other costumed characters at the California theme park, said Tuesday they are moving to form a union.”

Have you ever taken a couples survey? There seems to be one targeted for every age, starting with adolescence and marching relentlessly through to senescence.

The death of O.J. Simpson last week unleashed a few snapchat-like memories for me. Those are the kind that last only a few seconds—and when you consider the content, even that can sometimes seem too long.

Let’s be real: In Sacramento one week ago today we didn’t see the total solar eclipse. We saw something like a partial solar ellipse—more like an upended parenthetical aside

For 28 years, Cecily Hastings has defied the odds. She’s been a successful newspaper publisher. In that period of time, 2,700 non-daily newspapers have either merged with rivals to mutually survive or simply folded up shop.