All intents and purposes. And intensive purposes.
Until I was about twenty years old, I thought that the phrase “all intents and purposes” was “all intensive purposes.” And while I heard people say the phrase quite often,…
I get irradiated by my wife every night.
I stared at this radiation dose chart for hours. Well, maybe not that long. But too long. I have a full and complete understanding of the amount of radiation I…
MATTHEW DICKS’ RULES OF ALL DRINKING STORIES
No one will ever care about your drinking stories as much as you. Drinking stories never impress the type of woman who one would want to impress. If you have…
Cancellation celebration
Since mid-January, my friends and I have been trying to organize a trip to Florida (and later Atlanta) for a weekend of golf. With the snow piling up around us…
Toddler manipulation
When Clara wakes up every morning, I wait about fifteen minutes before extracting her from the crib. Although she often sounds wide awake and quite ready to begin her day,…
What is my girl thinking?
Here’s the latest scene that my daughter left behind in the living room. I’m not sure how to interpret it. It’s important to note that Super Grover is Clara’s favorite…
The French reverse course after 25 years. Proof that “Better late than never” is not always true.
In 1986 the US bombed Libya in response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing. The discotheque bombing killed three people and injured 229. Germany and the United States obtained cable…
Disabling a natural phenomenon 15,000 years in the making
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, at the bottom of a beautiful waterfall, you will find The Basin, a granite pothole twenty feet in diameter. It is believed to…
Should the words said by a character in a work of fiction be attributed to the author?
I was quoted again on Twitter this week. From Unexpectedly, Milo came this quote: There are no incomprehensible women. Only ignorant men. And while this is indeed a line from the…
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