The Postal Service lost something I mailed a week ago to my Dad. This kind of an occurrence may not be any less yono business rare today than it was before e-mail and other services, but it’s definitely losing credibility as an excuse. “It must have gotten lost rummy meet in the mail,” is never believable when money is involved (it was here, a check. And no I couldn’t just pay Dad with PayPal. Long story.) It’s even less believable now considering all the means by which we can send stuff to each other. But I just had to sit there and take it and make other plans.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The only other time I’ve been involved in lost mail is when my ex-girlfriend sent me a dozen erotic postcards with a message written serially on the back. “Did you get them?” she cooed. “Get what?” I said. She explained what she’d done. “If they don’t toss them out at the sorting facility the letter carrier will probably steal all the good ones,” I said. Indeed, joy rummy the only one I got was some chick in a gas mask and a bikini. Feel free to discuss whatever’s on your mind. Here’s some topic starters. • Today saw the final airing of The Oprah Winfrey Show. I think I’ve watched that program, start to finish, maybe two or three times at the most. Not a hater, just a dude, and I don’t spend a lot of time in waiting rooms. • Is it really an 11-year standoff when the sheriff don’t give a shit? Naturally, this is in Texas. Naturally, the fugitive is a constitutional scholar, too. • This is widely portrayed as “paying kids not to go to college,” but Silicon Valley zillionaire Peter Thiel awarded 20 20-year-old entrepreneurs $100,000 each to put off college and pursue their ideas. Sounds great, but Thiel also backs some real off-the-wall ideas, and isn’t such a big fan of women’s suffrage. • Fifty years ago today: President Kennedy challenged the nation to fly a man to the moon and return him safely before the decade was out.