This is a startling admission: I was once, many years ago, an idiot. It was right after college. I was educated. But I was an idiot. I knew the general rules of being a human being and living on my ...

A recipe for deep-fried squirrel brains comes with a warning: "May transmit Mad Cow Disease or mental maps of nuts." The table of contents lists such non-existent chapters as "Life and its Marvels," ...