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Speaking of morality: Wouldn’t it be great to be a former president who continues to appall people 35 years later? I’m fascinated by Nixon because he’s such a mess of contradictions. People may hate the politics and policies of Bush and Clinton, but Nixon is different. You can respect some of his accomplishment and at [...]

All week long I’ve heard ads on the radio for an upcoming concert at the St. Charles Family Arena. Normally I wouldn’t care, except for two factors that amuse me:
1. As its name suggests, the St. Charles Family Arena was built (with taxpayers’ money) with a specific purpose in mind: to provide Christian entertainment for [...]

Note on my previous post: Certain crimes change the ordering of attributes. Example: Mike Tyson isn’t a boxer who got busted raping a woman; Mike Tyson is a rapist who was also a good boxer. Phil Spector isn’t a music producer who murdered somebody; he is a murderer who produced music. Michael Jackson is a [...]

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. [...]

What to say after my return from the family’s first pilgrimage to Orlando? I want to rip on Mickey Mouse—to be the hypercritical parent who refuses to allow his kids to choose Toy Story as the theme for a birthday party—but I don’t have it in me. Disney is what it is, both the theme [...]

While it doesn’t come across in the plot summaries or in a first-time read, the other great trait that I forgot Dostoevsky possesses is a great sense of humor. His books are so serious that it’s easy to overlook how funny they are at times. Admittedly it’s a different type of humor than Don Quixote: no [...]

My team won second place in last week’s Rock and Roll Trivia Night yet I still left feeling like a total idiot. I’m decent at trivia, so it was good for my mental toughness to be the weak link on the teacher team. Except for a few random facts—Ben E. King singing “Stand By Me,” [...]