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Make America Tough Again
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The recent spate of awfulness-- the mass shooting in Vegas, floods and hurricanes, infrastructure and budgetary problems dealing with floods...
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The Lament of the Ageing Sprinter
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Once I was fast, but alas, that time has passed.
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Dave Balances the Scales of Justice!
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It's rare that a perfectly just punishment is meted out for a crime-- a reprisal not overly rash and vengeful but also not anemically sy...
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R.I.P. Tom Petty and Our Pet Lizard?
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This has been a tough week in our house-- not only did rock legend Tom Petty's soul pass into the great wide open, but it also looks lik...
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Tom Petty = America
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Some people prefer The Beatles , others go for The Rolling Stones (I'm a Stones guy) but everybody, every red-blooded American, loves ...
Drinking and (Not) Driving
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Once autonomous self-driving cars become ubiquitous, it might be time for the United States (and the 12 other countries with a drinking age ...
If You Hate Trump, You Should Read Larry Summers' Blog
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If you'd like some anti-Trump fodder with more policy analysis and less ad hominem rhetoric, listen to the new episode of Freakonomics: ...
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Puns: Enjoy Them While You Can
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Once the oceans and the robots rise up and destroy us, after the nukes and the supervolcanoes have exploded, and the straggling remainder ar...
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Stacey Again?
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It's rare that an outsider makes my blog twice in one week-- I have so many fascinating thoughts and opinions that it's hard for int...
The Best Fun Fact Ever
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The Guinness Book of World Records was the brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of Guinness Brewery . . . in 1951, he got i...
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If It Wasn't For You Meddling Post-Traumatic Young Adults . . .
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Edgar Cantero's meta-novel Meddling Kids is an interesting fictional experiment: a Scooby-Doo-like gang of kid detectives are reunit...
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You Got a Choice, Dishwasher
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My friend, colleague, and podcasting partner Stacey was taking a run at Capik Nature Preserve in Sayreville last weekend, and she spotted a ...
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The Butterfly Effect Is Silly
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James Gleick's new book Time Travel: A History is strange and uncategorizable: it begins as a history of the idea of time travel-- H.G....
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Humans: Impressively Stupid
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Considering how important our keys are, it's impressive how reliant most of us are on very crappy keychains (mine are held together with...
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Vermont + Chick Peas = Delightful Geographical Culinary Anomaly
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It's no surprise that Vermont has great local cheese and beer and wine and apples, but the victual you really want to procure is Yalla b...
Ouch
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While Cat and I were hiking this morning, a wasp stung me on the calf-- and after a reasonable amount of swatting and yelping, I think I han...
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Taking a Break From the Seltzer
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My wife and I are in Brattleboro for the long weekend-- sans children-- and we just did an impromptu micro-brew pub crawl . . . here are my ...
This Sentence is Not About Salsa
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I can't pinpoint exactly when this happened, it just crept up on us-- but I think my family is indicative of a larger American trend in ...
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A Matter About A Mattress (Dave Turns the Corner)
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My neighbors have five kids so they're are always cleaning out their house and their garage, getting rid of clutter, and tossing items t...
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This is Why I Rarely Run Errands
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Saturday morning, I got up and went out into the world, alone, to do some things: I drove out to Pennington to buy a craigslist bike for my ...
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Dave is on a Collision Course . . . with Himself
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There's nothing better than the Tina Fey flick Mean Girls . . . I reference it at least once a day-- I especially like to say "Yo...
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The End of the Road
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Guilt, regret, indignance, vengeance, betrayal, and the deep history of a trio of homeboys, this is Gar Anthony Haywood's novel Ceme...
My Week Was More Epic Than Yours (Unless You Were Involved in a Flood or Hurricane)
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It is the first real Friday of the school year (last week the students only attended school for three days) and while I know many of you wor...
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The Hotness/Fashion Calculus Inversion
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I can dress more casually for work than my colleagues because I'm so good looking.
Millennials are Weird (but Fun . . . and Imagistically Fungible)
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My Millennial friend Young Little Allie Hogan (who recently had her first break out performance on SoD) is doing a personal fitness c...
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Punt-cam
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The travel soccer pre-season has been fairly exhausting because we've gone digital with all our registration, player passes, game cards...
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Good Motivational Techniques = Therapy
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We bought two 36" by 12" laminated mural sized team photos this weekend at the tournament-- one for Alex (The Eagles) and one...
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A Flurry Rush of Dad Humor
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My boys were playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild this afternoon with their friend Tibby, and as I walked through the room, Tibby...
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Absolute Adjective Maniac
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The other day in the English office, Young Allie became very excited when she realized she knew something I didn't-- this kind of sillin...
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It's Gotta Be The Pants (Of Fabric and Fabrication)
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This morning, in honor of the first Friday of the school year, I put on my new red plaid button down shirt (red is a major fashion state...
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Oppressing Question
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Even when I've made a clean fecal grab and knotted the neck in an airtight fashion, if I hold a full dog poop disposal bag right up to m...
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Bury This Post, Evil Algorithm . . . I Dare You
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It's been nearly a year since I told you to read Cathy O'Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction, and you ignored me . . . or p...
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This post is not a pipe . . . nor is it a spoon
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This season, my U-13 travel soccer team made the leap from 9 v 9 on a small grass field to 11 v 11 on an enormous full-sized high school...
Can a Goat Win Best Supporting Actor?
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I can't really recommend The Witch as a horror movie, but if you're looking for an eerie period tragedy in the vein of The Cru...
Listen at Your Own Risk
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Here are some podcasts that will twist your sense of morality back unto itself: 1) This American Life updates the noted George Saunders ...
A Post Just Forer You
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I've done some research and data analysis and here's what I've found: people who read this blog are smart, creative, a little sk...
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Duh
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Rick and Morty is the opposite of Horace and Pete (and Time Travel: A History , by James Gleick, is the text that explains why this is so, ...
Wednesday/Thursday Morning Compare/Contrast Miracle
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Yesterday morning I was angry and frustrated: I hooked up my $14.50 Amazon Warehouse deal digital antenna to our very expensive flat screen ...
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Thanks Time! For Saving My (Naked) Ass
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I was eating some delicious and weird food at Chef Tan today with my wife and kids, sitting outside on the patio, slurping down some cold cl...
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Geometric Fashion
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After multiple trips to the fitting room at Kohl's-- tedious trips that nearly crushed me with boredom and exhaustion-- I finally had an...
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Horace, Pete, and an Amy Sedaris Cameo
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My wife and I finished the rather bizarre Louie C.K. ten act televised play Horace and Pete last night, and while it has comic moments and ...
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The Test 97: Different Croaks
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This week on The Test , I present the ladies with things that are similar and challenge them to find the differences, and while the acc...
Busking for Ice Cream
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The kids and I jammed a number of times on the porch last week in Sea Isle City: I played guitar and Ben accompanied me on drums, we all ...
The Last LeCompt Night Ever?
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Even if LeCompt continues to play Sea Isle at another bar, it will never be quite like the Springfield: the sound is perfect, you'r...
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Thick Matted Layers of Reality
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Last night after browsing through the many many cable channels on our beach house television, we arrived at The 40 Year Old Virgin , which...
Game of Bosch
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Michael Connelly's Nine Dragons is one of the darkest Bosch novels . . . this time Hieronymus takes on the Chinese Triad syndicate . . ....
Fists and the Eclipse
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After a wild Sunday (on the beach we were beset by a west wind and persistent black-flies; then, that evening, just before all the adults le...
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Oh, What a Noble Mind is Here O'erthrown
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Whatever he's writing about-- whether it's the banality of sports memoirs; the politics of prescriptive and descriptive dictionaries...
Tender Are the Nether Regions
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I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but I discovered this morning that the outdoor shower at our beach house has detachable h...
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The Test 96: Mount Whatmore?
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Everyone agrees that Mount Rushmore is pretty lame, so this week on The Test , Stacey forces the gang to do seven different makeovers; pla...
Man's Second Best Friend?
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Summer reading is more fun when accompanied by a lizard.
Indy Strips Away the Rhetoric
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Hate groups . . . I hate these guys.
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This is Your Brain on North Korea
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It's ethically gross and difficult to stomach, but the most strategic way to prevent disaster with North Korea is direct contact and dip...
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Evil Minds and Thrilling Lines
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I've finished my last thriller of the summer (perhaps . . . it is summer, and I can read what I damn well please) and this one is malevo...
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Oblomov = Russia, Lehane = Boston
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Plotwise, Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov and Dennis Lehane's novel A Drink Before the War couldn't be more different: Oblomov i...
Dad, Alex and Malcolm Gladwell Trump Mom
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After my son and I listened to Malcolm Gladwell's "Blame Game," I decided it was time to take logical and necessary action-- ...
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The Test 95: Eye of the Tigger
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This week on The Test , Cunningham tests our ability to survive-- whether you're stranded in the wilderness or just left alone with a...
Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment . . .
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As the summer wears on, my enterprises of great pith and moment start to lose the name of action . . . at the outset of summer break, I bul...
Vacationing in a Geographical Analogy
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My wife surprised me and arranged a one night vacation in Asbury Park last night-- the perfect complement to my guys trip down to Nags Head-...
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Memories Shade the Corners of My (Front) Yard
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Long time readers of this blog might recall a detailed J. Peterman-style critique of the outfit I wore while striking a triumphant pos...
Three Loony Questions
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Three questions about this imminent solar eclipse, in which New Jerseyans are supposed to see 73% of the sun blocked by the moon: 1) do I ...
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Flu in the Summertime? No Class . . .
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When you've got the flu-- which I do-- watching Arrested Development is the best medicine (besides Tamiflu, which I am also using).
Southern Mysteries, Real and Fictitious
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I am mired in the South . . . I just got back from Norfolk and North Carolina, just finished Tom Franklin's novel Crooked Letter, Crooke...
Outer Banks Fishing Trip XXIV
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On my ride down to Norfolk, while listening to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast, I learned that our annual fraternity get-together in Kill Devil H...
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That's a 20 Footer
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When I was swimming in the ocean today, I inadvertently slapped a fish . . . and I think we were equally surprised.
Beach Facts and Figures
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Beanbags are more expensive then you might imagine.
Pier 39 vs. The Raritan Yacht Club
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Lately, my wife and I have been lucky enough to get some additional work running professional development workshops: Amazon flew my wife to ...
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Monkey = Rock
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I finally finished a song I've been working on for what seems like forever . . . it's about the primitive anger and frustration t...
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