Spring has sproinged, as has my reinvigorated interest in A Book About a Thousand Things, published in 1946.

• baatt

I have known people like Charles the Wise—what's worse, I've worked for people like Charles the Wise. (I bet you have, too. There are lots of 'em out there. Those people are always shitty bosses who only get shitty work out of their employees.)

And I have never imagined that modern humans would use a valuable commodity like tobacco as zoo fodder.