If you want to deny homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, you are evil.
After reading about the doctor who refused to treat a six day-old baby because the parents were lesbians, my first thought, which I tweeted alongside a link to the piece…
Stephen Fry explains what he would say if he was “confronted by God” and nearly knocks the interviewer out of his seat.
Regardless of how you feel about Steven Fry and his position on the Catholic Church and faith in general, you have to admire this answer on purely rhetorical grounds. It’s…
This is not a telephone, so how does my son know that this was once a telephone?
My wife sent me this photo of my son from a recent visit to a children’s museum. Yes, my family gets to go to children’s museums during the week while…
It’s easy to criticize what people do. It’s often what people don’t do that matters more, yet these inactions are often ignored. So leave me alone, you inactive, moronic toadstools.
I was recently sitting at my desk in my classroom, drinking a Diet Coke while correcting papers. A colleague walked in, and as we wrapped up our conversation, she commented…
13 thoughts upon seeing my son trying to be cooler than me.
I walked into the living room and this is what I saw. The thoughts that instantly ran through my mind: Who the hell does he think he is? This…
My daughter wished me luck before my most recent Moth GrandSLAM performance then promptly retracted it.
I received this incredibly sweet but slightly parroted message from my kids just before I took the stage in Brooklyn to compete in my tenth Moth GrandSLAM last week. When…
The fallacy of private criticism and the mistake teachers often make when assigning consequences
There is a phrase that has become popular in teaching: Praise in public. Punish (or criticize) in private. I think this depends upon a lot of factors, and especially the…
Novelist Jose Saramago quit writing in 1953. Part of me wants to reach back in time and hug him. The other part wants to smack him.
Nobel Prize winning novelist José Saramago submitted the manuscript of Skylight – his first – to a Lisbon publisher in 1953. Receiving no response, Saramago gave up fiction altogether. His wife…
