Sentence of Dave

After a few hiccups, I've got my home music studio up and running again (everything pretty much died in the span of a week-- my DAW s...

I've been consuming loads of crime stuff: The Fall, True Detective, The Skeleton Road, The Fifth Witness . . . so you'd think my inv...

Elizabeth Green's book Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) avoids most of the politics that ...

It took my me all winter to figure it out, but I finally mastered the scarf-- in order to wear one, I need to first put on a hooded sweatsh...

Though I still don't know what women really want, I do know what ISIS really wants . . . and you can too if you read Graeme Wood's r...

It is both awful and compelling to witness a grown man's total humiliation-- I have only seen this once and it is indelibly engrav...

Another sunrise, another sunset, another day the new bathroom light fixture stays safely nestled inside its box.

The Fall might be a good show-- my wife certainly loves it-- but it's thin on humor and certainly takes things slowly (read as BORING...

It's gotten so cold here that I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to wear a scarf . . . how does one wear a scarf?

I'm teaching Hamlet  now, so whenever I see that little "remember me" check-box that asks if you'd like a website to s...

Back in 2012, I made a New Year's Resolution to appreciate Canada more , but apparently that's not the kind of thing you can force...

My children had their first Twinkie experience Friday night-- my wife's boss heard that they had never tried the quintessential processe...

So in the end, True Detectives is a Buddy Cop Show (Starsky and Hutch . . . Marty and Rust) and if you've got a buddy -- even if yo...

As a high school teacher, you occasionally educate your students, but in between the learning, you need a lot of schtick; Thursday during Cr...

The New York Times article "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life"  investigates how public shaming in a digital f...

I will guard you to the right until you prove that you can go left.

We just started watching another  crime show about a serial killer ( True Detectives ) and this made me wonder how often serial killing actu...

A few weeks back I waxed poetically  about how much I love to stomp across Donaldson Park in the snow, wearing my Sorel boots, my trusty can...

According to The Week magazine, there is a growing gap between what scientists believe and what the general U.S. public believes . . . for e...

Alec and I are generally full of ideas on pub night, but sometimes these ideas don't sound as good the next morning: 1) last Thursday,...