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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Family + Isolation = Here's Johnny!
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Catherine keeps interrupting me while I write this sentence, but I'm trying to keep my cool . . . I'm trying to avoid bashing her br...
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Interesting Coleopteran Information
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Love Me Do! The Beatles Progress is regarded by many credible sources as the best book about the Beatles and while I'm not the one to ...
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Spring Break Vermont: Hot as Daytona, But No Wet T-Shirt Contest
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Some highlights from this bizarrely warm snowboarding trip: 1) fun this morning at Okemo, but got extremely slushy and thus exhausting . ....
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Spring Break Vermont!
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Weird winter wonderland up here in Southern Vermont: we are staying at our favorite rental property, it lies in a pocket of deep snow betwee...
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What the High School Kids Think Is Funny
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A student told me this joke, and I fell for it hook, line, and sinker: How did the turtle cross the freeway? Hint: take the "f"...
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Spoilers, Ancient and Modern
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If you haven't listened to S-Town yet, you should . . . and if you haven't read (or watched) Hamlet yet, then you probably never w...
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Memories . . . Light the Corners of My Mind?
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Dan Chaon's new thriller Ill Will will make you question everything you think you know about your past, and while elements of the novel ...
I Am Valuable
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Although I'm certainly not the head chef in our kitchen, there are certain things at which I excel during dinner preparation:: I am a go...
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Jimmy Gluestick Fingers
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Our family just watched the 1990 Tim Burton classic Edward Scissorhands , and while we enjoyed the visuals: the brightly colored antise...
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To Distribute or Not to Distribute
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My two favorite wonky podcasts have recently done episodes on healthcare ( The Weeds , Common Sense ) and the takeaway is this: 1) America...
The Test 82: Fill in the Trump
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The bigliest, most beautiful, classiest Test ever, inspired by this Car Seat Headrest song . . . a great great test, I'm certain you...
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The Problem is You, Dave
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More often than I'd like, I jack my phone into a charging cord that is not plugged into any sort of electrical outlet, and then at some ...
No Spoilers (No Shit)
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I finished S-Town this afternoon, and I won't spoil anything-- other than the fact that my previous prediction (Bitcoin!) was idiotic ....
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Spoiler? Only If Dave is as Smart as John B. McLemore
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I am just starting episode five of S-Town , the fantastic new podcast from the producers of This American Life and Serial , and I have a bo...
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Why Do We Walk So Far For Ice Cream?
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The Median Voter Theorem-- an idea based on Harold Hoteling's theory of spatial competition, which Anthony Downs linked to the U.S. ...
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Dave Returns! With the Usual Drivel . . .
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My wife and I escaped from the children this weekend and enjoyed some unscheduled time in the City of Brotherly Love . . . and while we ...
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Questions of Dave Part IV
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Did the lobbyists who perpetuate our flawed and byzantine healthcare system conspire with the lobbyists who block tax reform ?-- because th...
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Questions of Dave Part III
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Now that music is essentially free (Spotify, YouTube, etc.) and streamable, will creditors grant amnesty to those who are still delinquent o...
Questions of Dave Part II
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At what rate must you consume a 48 ounce plastic jug of garden fresh Costco salsa in order to finish it before it goes sour?
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Questions of Dave Part I
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Cat and I are leaving the kids with my parents and heading to the City of Brotherly Love for the weekend, so I'll provide you some...
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Dave's Brain = Random Band Name Generator
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From the man who provided this phenomenal (but inappropriate) band name, gratis, here's another . . . it's a bit more intellectual...
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Dave Has No Need For Telepathy
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It turns out that my new mind-reading machine is fairly useless-- I thought it might be interesting to read Donald Trump's mind, but his...
Telepathy of Dave
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Just got my new mind-reader operating, so I pointed it at Paul Ryan's brain and found this gem: people will enjoy their own subpar healt...
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Dave + March = Mirror Madness
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I was tired today, despite a good night's sleep and I just realized why . . . I'm exhausted from watching all that NCAA basketball--...
The Test 81: Of What It Is Made
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This week on The Test , Dave and Stacey learn that a lot of stuff is made of other kinds of stuff . . . and Cunningham knows what that stu...
King Guam
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Kong: Skull Island is an entertaining mash-up of Apocalypse Now and every archetypal monster-movie trope; while it certainly has it's s...
Breaking News!
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Occasionally, the master becomes the student, and a good teacher will accept this turning of the tables and try to glean as much wisdom as p...
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Missing Ari Shaffir
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Last week, I nearly descended into madness , and this week, my podcasting partner Stacey flirted with her own lunatic demons; over the w...
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DST Is Easier to Deal With When You Don't Have to Go to Work
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Where It Hurts , a noir crime thriller set on Long Island-- but nowhere near the Hamptons-- is about as dark and violent as the genre gets, ...
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Pun of the Century?
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My friend Terry would not shut up yesterday about the imminent blizzard-- he kept abreast of the weather forecast on a minute-to-minute basi...
The Test 80 . . . Dave Descends into Darkness
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If you thought you were going to escape my semi-annual DST rant, you've got another thing coming-- and while I understand great for...
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Your Opinion About Dave Is Not Your Own
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Perhaps the easiest way to happily plunge into the surveillance state is to embrace the comforting notion that your mind is not your own, be...
Some Smart Sci-Fi
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Two recommendations for sci-fi lovers: 1) if you're overly worried about the surveillance state we live in . . . or if you're not ...
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Send Lawyers, Guns, and Actors
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The Supreme Court unanimously decided that an unloaded gun is still considered a "dangerous weapon" and possession of such during...
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Poop and Food: Always Funny
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We have a bizarre half-day extended-period schedule this week due to parent/teacher conferences (otherwise known as an insane waste of preci...
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More Troubles with Detective Sean Duffy
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Though Sean Duffy is as cool as they come (especially his eclectic musical taste) he isn't is as particular as James Bond about his alc...
Would You Like Us to Assign Someone to Butter Your Muffin? Or Will You Go Shave Your Back Hair?
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A corn muffin is just an excuse to eat some butter.
Birthday Cards! Not To Be Confused With Christmas Pants . . .
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My wife and kids gave me several lovely cards for my birthday, but they paled in comparison to the cards I drew on Saturday night at Stacey&...
The Test 79: Time After Time (Travel)
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This week's episode of The Test has got it all: Knight Rider, Quantum Leap, a Spanish lesson, and plenty of time travel . . . Stac...
Little Miss Sunshine - Jokes = Logan
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I will give credit where credit is due: New Yorker film reviewer Anthony Lane came up with the Logan/Little Miss Sunshine parallel-- ...
Drama: Dave Style
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It's always been a real struggle for me to memorize anything verbatim, and so when I watch any dramatic performance, I'm always impr...
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Seuss + Dave = Birthdays
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Seuss was a man who created a cat, with a number of tricks, and a fancy top hat-- I am the man who created this blog, but I don't ...
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The Paradox of the Socks
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Our household is now in the proud possession a teenager: Alex turned thirteen today . . . it's bizarre to have a child this old-- especi...
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Tragedy con Carne
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Let us all take a moment of silence to reflect on the good things in life and their inevitable passing into the great beyond . . . specifica...
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Desert Blues
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Tinawaren-- the Taureg band that hails from a Libyan refugee camp-- has a new album ( Elwan ) and Kurt Vile makes a guest appearance ...
The Test 78: Finish It!
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This week on The Test , Cunningham starts it and Stacey and I finish it . . . or we try our very best; despites some bizarre asides, we...
Can My Dog Read My Mind?
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My dog does not like water, and he's never happy about getting a bath-- and he has an uncanny sense of when I'm going to give him on...
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Fooling Around into the Future
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Steven Johnson's book Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World is full of weird and wonderful facts that I will soon forget (e.g. the...
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Recreational Athletics, Brinksmanship, and The Nuclear Option
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An evening to go down in infamy: last night, I was coaching the grade 6-8 town basketball team-- both my kids play on the same team and my b...
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Praise, Criticize . . . Who Cares?
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A fun Tversky and Kahneman finding that's easy to test on your own is the "regression to the mean" fallacy-- the super-duo o...
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The Simon and Garfunkel of Behavioral Economics
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I'm probably constructing an illogical metaphor here-- perhaps Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are more like Sonny and Cher or Sam and ...
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POTUS Before and After Pics: Specious at best
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Everyone loves POTUS before and after pics -- look how the job aged him!-- but I think we need to look at some pictures of regular peo...
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Dumb and White = Success?
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Robert D. Putnam pointed out in his latest book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis that poor kids with very high grades and test scor...
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The Test 77: The Big Naked Apple
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Melt away those little town blues this week on The Test and see what you know about all things New York City ( if you're pressed for...
Karma on Its Way
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Just jumped a guy's car at the park . . . his cable wasn't long enough (and the clamp broke off-- he said "Haram" in respo...
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Dave Can't Control Harbingers and Omens
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I had to stop interacting with Stacey at work today because I kept revealing clues as to the questions I am going to ask her tonight when we...
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Zen and the Art of Middlesex County
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I am home, drinking a beer, and proud that I didn't lose my shit after an epically long day rambling around central Jersey: taught Shake...
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Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau Need to Listen to Dave
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Virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile and experimental jazz pianist Brad Mehldau have released a spectacular sounding eponymous album-- Mehl...
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Dave's Brain Has the Right Stuff!
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Last week in the English Office, my friend, colleague, and age-twin Liz wondered aloud about the origin of the phrase "pushing the enve...
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A Humble Suggestion for the Harlem Globetrotters: Lead Basketball!
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We saw the Harlem Globetrotters last night at the RAC, and they performed as-billed, putting on a spectacular circus-like performance in the...
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Arachnids and Dramaturgy
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In Philosophy class last week, I introduced my new students to the idea of a heuristic-- a quick and dirty problem-solving technique that so...
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Dave Almost Helps an Old Lady (But She's Too Quick For Him)
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The streets and sidewalks in Highland Park were very icy this morning-- I almost fell while walking the dog-- and on my way to work, as I wa...
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Alex and Ian Spin an Exhausting Web of Disinformation
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The trick with fake news and disinformation is to mix the real story with so many lies, alternatives, and obfuscations that it becomes exhau...
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No School Trumps Trump
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I was going to post a long-winded rant about the awful injustices of Trump's hastily drawn terrorist travel ban-- the Orwellian fact tha...
Litmus Test of Dave
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There is no more surefire way to a judge a person's character-- according to Dave-- than by inquiring about their devotion to the TV sho...
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Hero to Zero and Back Again (Sort of)
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Get ready for Dave's Self-Esteem Rollercoaster Ride in three acts: 1) last Thursday afternoon, and a cold Thursday afternoon it was, m...
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The Test 76: We've Got Places All Over the Place
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I go rogue on this episode of The Test and cut out the ladies (just like college!) and design a quiz for my buddy Whitney, but the quest...
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Dave Almost Forgets to Write A Sentence . . . Or Does He?
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Yikes . . . I got so preoccupied with soccer stuff and Texas Hold'em today (I played poker with my kids in the afternoon and then all ev...
Why Does My Phone Think It's Clairvoyant?
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My phone autocorrected a number today . . . I was trying to text the digits 3241 (part of an address) but my phone kept changing this numbe...
Bosch (and Connelly) Do It Again
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No spoilers, but Bosch (and Connelly) get it done again in The Wrong Side of Goodbye . . . and they get it done twice -- the book is a myste...
Trump, Stop Being a Coward (I'd Use the P-Word, But It Would Be Gauche)
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The hope that Trump might preside more moderately than his campaign rhetoric indicated has been shattered by his polarizing inaugural addres...
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