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All I want for Christmas is a machine gun

Not really, of course, but damn do I love this sweater. For those of you who can’t quite pick up on the reference, it’s Die Hard, the greatest Christmas film of all time. In the movie, our hero, John McClane, has just managed to kill his first terrorist and acquired a machine gun. He sends…

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Verbal sparring 101: Comparing apples and oranges makes a whole lot of sense. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

The next time someone attempts to counter your argument by claiming that you are making an “apples to oranges” comparison, say this: Really? Apples and oranges are both similarly sized spherical fruits that grow on trees and weigh about the same. They have about the same number of calories per fruit. With the exception of…

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Are the machine guns really necessary?

My son was sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, playing with this tow truck. It looked cute, with large eyes in the windshield and a smile on the bumper.   Then he pressed down on the roof of the cap, and out popped a twin pair of machine guns from the sides.…

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