Last week, Sarah and I attended the Rally to Restore Sanity along with a quarter of a million other people. This column isn’t really about that, but for the curious, let me add the following comments. Yes, it was awesome. No, I couldn’t really...
For a stay at home parent, there may be nothing more depressing than an alumni survey. Sure, to your face, everyone says, “I just think it’s great that you stay home with the kids.” But they don’t really mean it. Alumni organizations...
There was some big news around the DC area last week… No, not the John Stewart Rally. No, not the midterm elections. No, not the suggestion by Dick Armey that Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich used to get together and smoke cigars and talk about their...
I recently read what is, perhaps, the least surprising article of my life. Some graduate student in Colorado recently published a paper suggesting that there are two main reasons that people get “unfriended” on facebook. Go ahead, take a second...
If you read the paper or watch the news, or listen to the radio, you know one thing: That America is terrible. We have horrible schools. We’re all morbidly obese. We like to shoot each other with guns. Our president is a foreign socialist. Our streets...
Last week I read an interesting article in Newsweek. Mind you, I didn’t say it was a good article. It was kind of preachy and overly simplistic, but it did make me think a little and that’s more than you can say for a lot of articles. It was...
I am not a man of few words. Honestly, I tend to prattle on and on. (Perhaps you’ve noticed?) Eventually, I work myself around to my point… well most of the time. But, in general, whether it is in speech or in writing, I tend to meander languidly...
My daughter, Audra, is not one to get easily scared. She’s a pretty tough kid. So, when, I heard a scream of absolute terror erupt from her lips yesterday afternoon, I knew something was wrong. “Daddy! Daddy! There’s a snake in the house...
All Children grow up. It’s practically a fact. For a while this is a good thing. From ages 0 to about 5 you’re really excited that your kid is growing up. First they learn to sit up and then walk, and then talk and then (thank heavens) poop...
About a year ago, I read a study where someone analyzed the comments section on a whole bunch of websites and found that it only takes an average of something like 10 comments before somebody invokes Hitler. (And if I just made that up and someone hasn’t...
We are not a smart people, us humans. Madison Avenue figured that out a long time ago. They realized that a really good advertisement had an almost God like power to make us buy something that we didn’t really want or need, or heck, that we couldn’t...
I worry about all the poor Tea Party people. It’s sad to see a growing movement with so much potential, but without any sustaining history from which to draw. The Democrats like to point back to the legacies of Roosevelt and Kennedy and sometimes...
We Christians have done a pretty good job proving that we’re completely insane. Usually it’s just stuff like declaring that God wants us to support the death penalty, or hate some particular people or actively not heal the sick, or other things...
Everybody has a junk drawer. That’s right, everybody. How do I know this? Because even my in-laws who are the neatest, cleanest, most organized people I’ve ever met have a junk drawer. How do I know it’s a junk drawer? Because, that’s...
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done since before I had kids 8 years ago. (I’ll let you ruminate for a moment on what that might be… I’ll give you a hint, it involved being alone and the liberal use of cream cheese) Ok. Ok...