Sentence of Dave

One of my students-- a senior-- recommended to the class that they make a "bucket list," and she reminded them that it didn't ...

The dinner topic was WWII (not my choice), and my boys decided that things would have turned out better if the Germans had played some  RISK...

Though the recent Amtrak derailment was an awful and tragic event, it's not something you should worry about . . . in fact, there's...

Overheard one nerd saying this to his chubby four-eyed friend at the gym: " The Force Awakens is due out in late December, that's g...

If you like big rocks stacked on top of little rocks-- and who doesn't?-- then Pyramid Mountain is the hike for you; while rocks o...

It's hard to criticize  Mad Max: Fury Road because there's so many awesome visuals: the flame-thrower guitarist in the bungee cord r...

I know that "birds" is British slang for chicks (which is American slang for available women) but I prefer to imagine George ...

I just finished Ian Rankin's first John Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses , and I think that Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin need to co...

I wish I could claim this discovery for myself, but it's all Stacey: if you want to fit more stuff in a manila folder, then you can expa...

Lately I've noticed that if I don't wear a belt, then my pants fall down-- this was never a problem for me until recently and I'...

Tuesday, I suffered the season's first humidity indignity and the season's first humidity benison, all in the same afternoon (I ripp...

Every day at lunch, I storm into the English Office-- a ravenous Tasmanian Devil-- and every single day, once I finally put fork to lips, in...

The only thing questionable about Michael Connelly's second Harry Bosch novel The Black Ice is the eponymous drug "black ice,&q...

Warm weather, soccer season, and allergies certainly slowed my reading lately, so that is a testament to how entertaining the new Levitt and...

I heard Mickey Gilley's awesome drinking song "A Headache Tomorrow (or a Heartache Tonight)" for the first time yesterday ...

Planet Money has been investigating  "The Robot Economy"  lately (at least three consecutive robot episodes) and things are lookin...

Two things I learned recently from listening to 99% Invisible : 1) we are living in "The Post-Billiards Age,"  which makes me ve...

Not only is my dog scared of rain and thunder, but he's now also afraid of humidity . . . I had to drag him on his walk Monday and Tuesd...

Almost twenty years ago, I went through a phase where I memorized a bunch of jokes . . . and then I got to wondering where the jokes origina...

Sometimes I think:  I should use my massive brainpower and my phenomenal skill-set to make more money . . . I should tutor or open a tutorin...