Sentence of Dave
The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Tigger Dad (Tigger is Scottish, Right?)
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If you want some ideas on how to get your son to excel in academics, read the first couple chapters of John Stuart Mill's Autobiography.
One More Sad Tale
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Yesterday when my wife got home from the grocery store, she saw Ian in the kitchen and asked him where I was and he said, "Dad is out w...
Falling to Pieces (Central Jersey Style)
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I feel like I'm living in some tri-state, upper-middle class version of a country song: yesterday we put the dog down; while I was diggi...
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March Badness
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R.I.P. Sirius Black . . . a good boy until the end.
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And Thus the Whirligig of Time Brings in His Revenges (Upon Dave and Many Many Others)
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I got my just desserts for stripping the joy from NCAA gambling bracketology-- a couple of days ago, I decided filling out brackets for a NC...
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My Wife is No Mantis Shrimp (or is she?)
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The mantis shrimp has the most sophisticated visual system in the animal kingdom-- they have from 12 to 16 different kinds of rods and c...
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A March Metaphor
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The lottery has been often labeled a "tax on dumb people" and while picking brackets for the NCAA tournament is akin to this kind...
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What About Dad?
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When I catch kids using cell-phones in class, why are they always texting their mother?
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March Sadness
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My dog-- ailing from Lymes-- still likes to walk, but he no longer wants to kill cats.
Talking to Women is Damn Near Impossible (for Dave)
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Last night during dinner preparation, I noticed something out of the ordinary: my wife was listening to some decent music (Andrew Bird) and ...
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Why? Why Why Why Why Why?
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Insert Daylight Saving Time rant here (and also, I really hate these people , who obviously don't have a clue about the most important ...
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Once You Get In, You Never Get Out
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Canceling a gym membership is like trying to retire from the mafia.
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Sometimes You Eat the Toe, and Sometimes the Toe Eats You
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While The Big Leboswki is hands down my favorite movie, I still don't pretend to understand the plot . . . like Raymond Chandler...
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Preparing For St. Patrick's Day (and the End of the Anthropocene)
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Long after the human race has wound down and gone extinct-- the last of the fossil fuels extracted and burnt; the last of the plastics c...
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The Machine Is Not Green
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Green activist Paul Kingsnorth has given up, and he explains why in his rather grim, beautifully written, and occasionally cabalistic collec...
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Twelve Fourteen Split
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Alex turned 14 last week, while his younger brother is still 12 (they are 14 months apart) and we saw the age gap in action this weekend: Al...
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Is This Normal Small Town Stuff?
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Does every town have a crazy white-haired lady with two little white dogs that yells "SLOW DOWN!" when you're driving 27 miles...
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A Couple of Books That the Unabomber Would Enjoy
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Jonathan Moore's The Night Market is a sci-fi crime thriller that blends the byzantine plotting and tone of Raymond Chandler with some ...
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Poetry Birthday Week!
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Yesterday, we went to happy hour at the Golden Lion in Milltown to celebrate my birthday and the gang from work gave me some lovely presents...
Dave and Dr. Seuss Pontificate on the Meaning of Shared Birthdays (in a Universe That May be Experiencing the Nietzschean Eternal Return)
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Me and the Seuss, we share the same date: coincidence . . . or an act of fate? I tend to lean towards the stochastic but perhaps our w...
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