Sentence of Dave

I wish I were European, so I could wear a Speedo to my pool without irony . . . and not for the comfort (no chafing!) or the speed I'd g...

The boys and I were in a rush to get to a barbeque on Saturday (mainly because we were held up at the Rutgers/Kansas game, which was intoler...

Our most popular episode of The Test  is  "Dating Cunningham" -- in it she reveals the secret topics and knowledge that will make ...

For the past ten years, I have used the same system to hang my clothes in my rather small closet in the corner of our bedroom-- I pile the c...

I was walking the dog last week and I saw two guys rolling a giant trampoline down my street-- and this was something I had never seen befor...

I know we're a bit behind the times in my family (my Shakespeare students were astounded that I didn't know that Anne Hathaway is...

I am rewatching Cheers  on Netflix . . . I started with the pilot and I've made it to episode ten, " Endless Slumper "; the on...

Stone Delicious IPA lives up to its name-- it's tasty, but not overwhelmingly hoppy, and at 7.7 percent alcohol, it packs quite a punch;...

I am still plowing through Walter R. Borneman's 1812: The War That Forged a Nation , and while I'm not digesting all the names and d...

I've lost a few pounds in the past month, mainly due to to a "slow carb" diet-- instead of rice and tortillas and bread, I...

On this new episode of The Test , special (but recurring) guest Alec challenges us with a Shakespeare quiz that even our British friends dee...

Yesterday, I noticed that all my white athletic socks were torn through at the heel . . . is this a weird coincidence or an insidious plot o...

The de facto motto for 9/11 this year was "Never Forget" and while I don't think we are yet in jeopardy of nationwide amnesia ...

My wife (otherwise known as Mrs. X) didn't fare particularly well on this recent Test about numbers, but that didn't stop her from ...

After reading Carl Safina's description of elephant behavior in Ambolesi Park in Kenya-- the concerned mothers, the lost children, the p...

I thought this episode of The Test   would be fun and easy-- an innocuous number association quiz-- but the ladies though differently . . . ...

If you're feeling extraordinary, proud and special, because you're a human and have such an advanced consciousness, read Carl Safina...

I was channelling Ron Swanson the other night, drinking a scotch on the rocks while assembling a pub table and set of stools for the new and...

New Jersey recently had a long period of extremely hot and dry weather-- no rain for weeks-- and then massive downpours for a couple of days...

Kevin P. Keating's novel The Captive Condition is described on the inside cover as the story of "an idyllic Midwestern college t...