Sentence of Dave

If you didn't keep up with Sentence of Dave this year, then shame on you, but you can redeem yourself before the New Year by reading the...

A few weeks ago we did an "evaluating technology" unit in Composition Class, and I stumbled upon a This American Life   excerpt ab...

Though I didn't plan it, the last two books I read in 2015 were a Harry Bosch mystery ( Trunk Music ) and a John Rebus mystery ( Hide &a...

Our first full day in Vermont was a wet one, foggy and cloudy and damp and rainy, but we braved the weather (it was fairly warm) and took a ...

The first night of our balmy Vermont vacation, I walked from our rental to Manchester Discount Beverage to stock up on local beer, and I im...

In this episode of  The Test , I describe famous works of art and the ladies try to identify them-- but things get a bit weird along the way...

I wish I could write something more angry and intellectual today-- one of my typical Christmas rants about materialism, environmental devas...

While season two of Serial is fantastic, and swinging for the fences as far as big journalism goes, it's also a bit more difficult than ...

In Michael Connelly's novel Trunk Music , Detective Harry Bosch is in trouble with Internal Affairs (again!) and he is interrogated by a...

Let's try to remember that the lesson of this post is that Dave is a Super-Genius (not an idiot) and that The Subconscious of Dave is co...

I've got a really annoying post up at Gheorghe:The Blog today in celebration of The Twelve Days of Gheorghemas . . . I have selected my...

Another weird and wonderful episode of The Test this week: Stacey administers a menacing word association quiz she calls Common Thread, and...

In the olden days, old people aspired to be wise-- they were the keepers of history, knowledge, and sagacity-- but now, with the rapid pace ...

While I generally appreciate leftover beer from a party, someone left two bottles of Traveler Jack-O Pumpkin Shandy in my refrigerator a...

Last weekend, we took a road trip to my brother-in-law's new place just outside of Harrisburg, and I wasn't terribly excited about m...

I highly recommend Dan Carlin's podcast "Common Sense" -- he's logical and knowledgeable, has a great voice, and makes pol...

While not quite as involved as Festivus, we are celebrating Gheorghemas over at Gheorghe: The Blog, so head over and enjoy  "Five Podca...

I'll use any chance to whip out my favorite Simpson's quotation of all time, and this episode of The Test   is no exception-- while ...

The Pew Research Center did a survey on "U.S. View of Technology and the Future" and one of the questions asked was what futuristi...

I have been listening to Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything podcast . . . it's the first podcast on a list of favorites by Roman...