How To Not Kill People

(therapy on the cheap)
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One of the handy side-effects of writing a humor column is that it can provide the writer with free therapy. This is useful because of one of the not-so-handy side-effects: writing a humor column doesn’t pay much.

Take, for example, pet peeves. We all have them, but rather than internalizing mine until I’m bitter and traumatized, I just start typing. Rather than letting those peeves simmer until I need to pay some goatee-sporting European to let me lie on ...