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According To Hofmann

I always find myself wondering about the origin of things like art, plastic and...well, thatĢƵ about it.You see, art is a very broad subject. It encompasses many things like literature, paintings, acting, singing, drawing, photography, sculpting, watermelon smashing and, of course, ...

ThereĢƵ a lot to be said about political correctness and the euphemisms it spawns, but some instances of political correctness have turned into a waste of time ... literally.For a perfect example, letĢƵ look at the jockstrap — no, not the actual thing; I’m talking about the word. ...

Now that we’re in the age of COVID — the terrible twos, as a matter of fact — we as a society have never been cleaner ... or at least aimed higher to be cleaner.You’d think the germs would just give up and die with the almost maniacal use of sanitizer, sanitizing bleach wipes, ...

I often hear the phrase, “ThatĢƵ the stupidest thing I ever heard.”ThatĢƵ mostly from my wife when I tell her what my upcoming column is going to be.However, after hearing that phrase from her at least 52 weeks out of the year, it kind of loses its luster. The stupidest thing one would ...

According to Hofmann: Death by hotdog

Now that we’re reaching the end of our summer of discontent, itĢƵ time to hear that many of us have been killing ourselves 36 minutes at a time.A recently published study from the University of Michigan found that eating one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your life.Isn’t it great that ...

According to Hofmann: The dad joke plateau

I have to give a shout-out to my brother, who was a big inspiration for this weekĢƵ column.You see, he and I were talking, and I was saying I didn’t have an idea for my next column, everyone is going to find out I’m a fraud, I’m going to lose my job and family, and then I would have to ...