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In my terribly limited choice of television viewing, 95% of my time is spent on only two subjects: soccer and The Amazing Race. Not surprisingly, I was excited about last night’s start of the sixteenth season. One of the rare joys of The Amazing Race occurs when they travel to a place you actually know, [...]

As the title says, it has been a really strange couple of days in the news. Before I get a chance to process any event, something else happens. C’mon, I’m still working my way through Wednesday’s amazing 2-0 soccer victory by the U.S. over Spain, the #1 team in the world. Easily the best game I have [...]

For some reason I watch no television at all when Molly is at home. Okay, I watch soccer, but that’s a form of relaxation more than actual television viewing. When she is gone, I pick something off the DVR that I recorded months ago because it sounded good. Last night’s was Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives. [...]

I had the pleasure of watching Happy New Year, Charlie Brown with my family today. It was quite a bit funnier than I remembered. As an English teacher, I can’t help but be impressed that Charlie’s teacher assigned War and Peace over Christmas vacation. What is he, about eight years old? It led to a [...]

(I believe I lifted this post directly from 2003, so if you were with me then, or if you have been in the room with me much over the past two weeks, you’ve heard it all before. Sorry ’bout that.)
So much I could say about current politics (as Molly could attest) but I’ll keep it [...]

So many bandwagons to jump upon and ride to easy blogging satisfaction. Which to choose? I could lay into Roger Clemons–since taking down the self-righteous always makes one feel righteous–for his 10-year affair with an underage country singer. Instead I’ll regale my reader with a poem from my English 11 class. The assignment? Take an [...]

Here’s how random thoughts work:
1. I was talking to my friend Brock on Friday about how John Milton was ten times the writer Shakespeare was because Milton was trying to say something in Paradise Lost. I dislike that nobody knows what Shakespeare believed about the world, and his writing fails because the themes are games. [...]