grin and bare it
A blog by Matthew Dicks
Arizona shooting recap
Just for the record: 1. I do not blame Sarah Palin for the attempted assassination in Arizona. 2. I think that Sarah Palin’s gun sight website was incredibly stupid, dangerous and represented an astounding lack…
Read MoreSusan Patricia McKenna: 1950-2007
Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. I wrote a post on the day that she died.____________________________________________ Mom passed away this morning. Ironically, I spent last night in ICU with her watching an episode…
Read MoreOne definition too many
I can’t bring myself to use the word seminal. There are moments when I’ave wanted to refer to a seminal moment in my life or the seminal idea of a story. But every time I…
Read MoreShe reappeared with this.
She spent about an hour cursing the sewing machine, and she was significantly less chatty for a couple days last week (almost disappearing entirely for a period of time), but once again my wife has…
Read MoreJumper-talker-downer for hire
Another job I wouldn’t mind adding to my list of occupations is jumper-talker-downer. You know, the ones who talk people out of jumping off buildings and bridges. I think I would be pretty good at…
Read MoreFear not the Christmas tree, for your methods of indoctrination are far more powerful than tinsel and colored lights.
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, in writing about the Jewish conundrum of how to handle Santa Claus and the Christmas tree with their impressionable children, writes: One needn’t be virulently anti-Christmas to experience the seasonal anxiety felt…
Read MoreiCarly trumps Robert Frost and Val Kilmer
I am reading Shakespeare’s Richard II to my students. On Friday we came across the phrase “rue the day” in the text. I was prepared to tell them all about Frost’s poem Dust of Snow:…
Read MoreA land of ice cream and death
Last night I dreamt of a world made entirely of ice cream. Nice. Right? Not like those struggle-to-the-death dreams that I so frequently have. Except, of course, the ice cream was melting. The world was…
Read MoreSo stupid it wouldn’t make for bad fiction
The fact that one of the Democrats who Sarah Palin targeted on her website with the crosshairs of a sniper rifle was shot in the head today is unbelievable. It’s like bad fiction. Add to…
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