Boy learns that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father for the first time
This is hilarious, and I will certainly make a point of doing the same someday when my children discover the secret of Darth Vader. Better still, it makes me wonder…
The super cool 1987 version of myself
My sister, Kelli, wrote the following for our brother-sister blog. Reading it made me both happy and very sad. It’s strange to discover how your sister felt about you twenty…
I understand why you think this is about you, but it’s probably not about you at all.
For the third time in the past month, someone has assumed that something I wrote on this blog pertained to them, and in all three cases, they were wrong. After…
Our childhood revealed (and another goal achieved)
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to convince my sister to write a blog with me that tells stories from our childhood from both perspectives. The purpose is threefold:…
Time bomb
The medication that my wife is taking warns that it can cause diarrhea “weeks to months” after taking it. So when she’s suffering from diarrhea in March of 2012, should…
Whoopi Goldberg apparently just learned yesterday that the N-word is considered offensive to some people. She’s also apparently an idiot.
This exchange on The View is stupid in many ways, but I found Whoopi Goldberg’s opening comment especially moronic. In discussing Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s recent use of the…
The moral high ground
From The Daily Beast: President Obama bashed the Republican presidential candidates for not speaking out against the booing of a gay soldier during a recent televised debate. Obama said he…
A near-perfect assemblage of words to describe the fabulousness of roller derby
When I was a kid, I watched roller derby matches on television. In the Boston market, the television stations would air this sport at odd times opposite things like candle…
Naked donut run or embarrassing tattoo on your bottom?
Which is worse? A man forced to run around the parking lot naked in front of his coworkers with a donut affixed to a uniquely suited appendage… …or a man…
Bittersweet
While I was away at for three days at a YMCA camp with my students, my father-in-law took some photographs of my little girl and sent them to me. I…
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