Which book is more frightening?
Dinosaur-on-human erotica or a Ryan Gosling coloring book? Both are real. Which is scarier?
Serious sibling adoration
My four year-old daughter to my one year-old son: "You have such a cute face! I can't even stand it!" I'm not sure if I’ve ever said anything that nice…
Verbal sparring 101: Answer the rhetorical question
Whenever you find yourself in an argument, be on the alert for the rhetorical question. People love to use these questions as argumentative counterpoints, and they can quickly derail the…
My namesake discovered 42 years later
My daughter’s name is Clara Susan. Her first name comes from the protagonist in The Van Gogh Café by Cynthia Rylant. My wife loves that book, and it’s where she…
How to stop a friend from driving home drunk
Slate’s Troy Patterson recently answered a question about the best method of stopping a drunk friend from driving as part of his Gentleman Scholar series. His advice strikes me as…
“And now my kids don’t die.”
This is hilarious, but it shouldn’t exist. It’s a goddamn tragedy that the argument in favor of vaccines is even necessary.
Out of the frying pan…
…and into bigoted stupidity. The smirk on the guy’s face after suggesting that homosexuality is akin to incest is just appalling.
History (and blogger) repeats itself
So yesterday I wrote my sixteenth Unfair Assumption post, questioning the intelligence of people who choose to begin smoking today. It turns out that I wrote nearly the same post…
The boy is trouble.
My son is unlike my daughter in many ways. Most noticeably is the likelihood that he will get himself into a sticky situation or find his way into trouble. When…
Resolution update: September 2013
In an effort to hold myself accountable, I post the progress of my yearly goals at the end of each month on this blog. The following are the results through…
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